Lavender to Splash Orpington - who's done it, and what were the results?

[Migo]

Pink eggs aren’t specific to lavenders, and if the chicks look the same as the parents, they’re splash too. Splash x splash shouldn’t produce blues or blacks.

Feather color is exactly the same as my lavender orpingtons. Comb color is exactly same as my lavender ones as well. They start out very pale pink and at 11 to 12 months finally get little reddish hue but not nearly as dark red as other orpingtons. I sold all solid color lavender chicks but will get more I am sure. As well as beautiful mauve orpingtons...and maybe a new color...mauve splash.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Feather color is exactly the same as my lavender orpingtons. Comb color is exactly same as my lavender ones as well. They start out very pale pink and at 11 to 12 months finally get little reddish hue but not nearly as dark red as other orpingtons. I sold all solid color lavender chicks but will get more I am sure. As well as beautiful mauve orpingtons...and maybe a new color...mauve splash.

The feather color doesn’t look like lavender to me. Your splashes could have been crossed to lavenders at some point to share their traits, but that doesn’t mean they express the lavender gene. It’s also possible that they carry lavender and that’s how they have lavender offspring. I would expect a bird that has both splash and lavender to look lighter than your birds.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Migo, you stated back on page one you had a blue Orpington cock in same pen as the splash Orpington cock. The blue and black chicks you begot were sired by that blue Orp cock.

Splash and splash only beget splash. There is no Lavender unless you had a Lav. parent somewhere in generations back. Comb color and egg color have nothing to do with it. Lavender is a different gene than the blue gene. The blue gene is a dominant gene that stacks. One copy will express blue, two copies express splash. Lavender is a recessive gene that requires two copies to express.

It would be great if you hatched from only the splash cock over your splash hens to prove or disprove any thought of lavender being in those birds at all. If there and each of the birds have one copy of it then 25% of the birds would hatch lavender.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

The color designation splash is specific to blue genetics. Lavenders (self blue) can only be created by crossing lavender to lavender (as it is a recessive dilute to black) OR by crossing birds that carry the lavender gene.
Adding chocolate to the mix will further muddy the waters, as it is also recessive and sex linked in certain crosses.
You have probably seen these charts but here they are:

 

[Gary Meeks]

They are very good looking birds