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[Shaffer]

Lildinkhem,
Bill I will give you some Lavender Orpington LF eggs if you would like some for FREE just reimburse me for the shipping fee. I can send them possibly Friday or next week when I have enough of them to ship since I just filled both my incubators that I am running at this time. Just email me if you would like them.
I used show quality hens in their background and they(the lavenders) are from two different sources not related.

Harry

 

[lildinkem]

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Heck yeah!! AWESOME HARRY! I was wondering who to hit up for the outside blood. Look for my email. thank you!

 

[buffbeauty]

With all the abbreviations of chicken names I just realized something..... A whole lot of us on this thread have BO! HAhaheehee. BO!! Ok sorry. At work all night and I'm ready to go home! It was funny..... You can at least smile!

 

[Katy]

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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

http://pic50.picturetrail.com/VOL427/739981/21043320/378407597.jpg

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.

 

[lildinkem]

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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

http://pic50.picturetrail.com/VOL427/739981/21043320/378407597.jpg

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?

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

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I don't get all of the genetics stuff either. I am doing lavs and having a great time doing it. None of mine have the buff leakage that is in your first picture though. Certainly none of my "self-blues" are born yellow. Since you are in for a penny, you might as well be in for a pound as they say and join us on the lavender adventure. I am breeding all of mine back to blacks this year to improve type. And if you think this is confusing, you should read the Lavender Silkie thread. To read it, you would think just about any color combo could throw a lavender. Myself...I am sticking to the line I have and adding blacks only!

Good luck with your babies.

 

[lildinkem]

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I don't get all of the genetics stuff either. I am doing lavs and having a great time doing it. None of mine have the buff leakage that is in your first picture though. Certainly none of my "self-blues" are born yellow. Since you are in for a penny, you might as well be in for a pound as they say and join us on the lavender adventure. I am breeding all of mine back to blacks this year to improve type. And if you think this is confusing, you should read the Lavender Silkie thread. To read it, you would think just about any color combo could throw a lavender. Myself...I am sticking to the line I have and adding blacks only!

Good luck with your babies.

I never ever expected to have a Lav. From what I know about the hens side of my self blues chicks, there is more genetically then meets the eyes. Cecil Moore is one of the lines that are in her side. Cecil had used silver in his Black Orp breedings. I frequently get alot of yellow in some of my Carlos babies, who are all blacks with Cecil's line. So to have an almost all yellow chick fooled me once in the early hatches, that is why the older self blue chick is with some Blue Splash Ameraucanas. I thought he had to be an Ameraucana Splash when he was a day ole. I will be enjoyin watching all these grow out. I plan on breeding them to the Black BUS babies. As of last check I should have a few more of these boys. It will be interesting.

 

[Catstar68]

Fannie and her first chick. She dutifully hatched her EE 'sisters' eggs plus one of hers from our EE rooster. She's a good mom.

 

[Katy]

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So in other words, BUS is a mutt. I hardly think he's the best bird to get started on breeding lavender orps from then. Take the eggs Harry has offered you, keep them seperate and don't breed them to BUS if you're serious about breeding lavender orps. You're getting so many things crossed as far as breeds and colors you're going to end up with nothing but mutt birds. They may be pretty and if you're happy with them that's fine, but it seems to me if you keep going like you're going your lines that you do have are going to so diluted you'll have no pure birds of any type left.

 

[lildinkem]

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So in other words, BUS is a mutt. I hardly think he's the best bird to get started on breeding lavender orps from then. Take the eggs Harry has offered you, keep them seperate and don't breed them to BUS if you're serious about breeding lavender orps. You're getting so many things crossed as far as breeds and colors you're going to end up with nothing but mutt birds. They may be pretty and if you're happy with them that's fine, but it seems to me if you keep going like you're going your lines that you do have are going to so diluted you'll have no pure birds of any type left.

BUS is most definitely a mutt. I have no problem with that. Not easy to find any 11 lbs at 11 month ole boy with any resemblance of an Orp. Yet alone a Lav split. I threw a few eggs in the bator in January to see what comes out. And I notice he threw more Red leakage in his first few chicks then these past 10 or so. I also don't quite grasp all what is going on in genetics. I am a show me type of person. And so far I like what I have seen enough to keep popping a few eggs in the bator every other week. The splash hen is a reject that the breeder of did not want me to use in my main Black or Blue Orp program. So no loss by using her. I have 3 other Black pens. Two pens I am currently hatching from ( DOC's & Feran"s). So BUS is a total play around with and see what may or may not happen out of bird. NEVER EVER thought of Lavender in my yard. IF you told me a week ago I would have not one but at least two Lav splits, I would have told you to put the bottle down. lolol
None of these BUS babies gets to be with Feran's or Doc's chicks. And it is a Lav project that happened without me knowing it. When I looked in there the other morning I was under the impression I was looking at splashes to help ORPY MAD in what they may have. Had to be told infact I was wrong again and he was a self blue. So it appears. Still have doubts. So, I guess it isn't a perfect world. I rather have a self blue from Feran or Doc. But, knowing what he is, it doesn't cause any harm for me to poke around with and see. The gamble is what is fun.