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It's sorta like Christmas. Or hittin the lottery. I was still in denial till I read that chart, sreihart was nice to share. Then I still couldn't see how. Still can't. But I am here and in anyway. Now I have to wear Lav colored sunglasses to get the real look of my BUS and what he is.
A 12 lbs Black Lav split.
Can ya see it? I still can't, lolololol
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So is this rooster BUS? And this is the roo you got the chick in question out of? Genetics confuse the heck out of me, but is it even possible to get a lavender bird out of a roo that's mother was a buff hen? At least if I read a previous post correctly you say his mother is out Aker's Buff line. He is a pretty roo, but he looks like a hodge podge of colors to me.
KATY this BUS is the cock that is from my breeding a MT HEALTHY hatchery Black Australorp to an Akers Buff Orp hen last spring. I don't know if you remember me asking around here back then for a Buff cockerel? I had just been given these Akers Buffs from a friend here in Indy. He said he had never had any fertile eggs with them. He had originally bought 8 chicks from Doug. Gave away two cockerels and a pullet. Then gave me 5 Buff hens last April. So to see IF in fact these girls were fertile, I took the only known proven cock on my property to see IF these Buff Akers girls would be able to breed. Once I knew they laid a fertile egg, I called Doug and got a Buff cockerel. That boy I thought did the job. But in fact the girls were still fertile from the Australorp and I hatched them out. It has to have happened to be an Andy Larue Australorp that had the Lav gene, that originally was sold to Andy as a Jersey Giant from Mt Healthy. Except Andre the Giant turned out to be Landrew the Australorp, who I gave away this spring. He has the tail. I don't see that Lav gene getting passed down from a Buff hen to BUS. So, BUS is 1/2 Black Australorp and 1/2 Akers Buff hen. And I liked him so much for his type, he was 11 lbs at 11 months old. I am throwing everything I have at him. Starting with the Blue Splash hen from one of my Black Orp breeders at the beginning of this year. That splash breeder is the one who told me I must have gotten a Lav split from her and bred it to BUS to get these boys. And the funny thing was, the Splash girl is from an egg laid while a Blue girl I got from her was being shipped last May. I still had doubts two nites ago. And I asked Doug. Doug said self Blue too. She says self blue. I am knew to the whole thing, and am still second guessing. But, I know nothing and am going to continue the same breeding till it is not necessary. I have a bunch of Blacks from BUS too. In addition to my two other pens making the Blues and Blacks. Fun stuff eh?
