Project Lav & Split Black Orps I hatched

[joebryant]

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Okay, that does it. I'm outa here.
Where's that gin?

 

[horsecrazy]

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oh, sorry, didn't realize I was wrong

 

[Krys109uk]

All black/splitblack pullets will be paired with the lavender cockeral. What will be will be. Once lavendar pullets are established then all black/splitblack pullets will be removed.

If you want to improve type you will probably be wanting to put the lavender male closest to orp type onto the nicest black orp females of the best type you can obtain, rather than using your black heterozygous lavender pullets.

 

[MissPrissy]

As I only currently have these 11 - minus all extra cockerals to work with I have to work my way through as I go. What I plan to do is pull my best black orpington hens and put them with one of the best lavender cockerals. I have 4 nice orpington hens I can pair with the best lav cockeral once he get to the point I can bring him online in the breeding pens.

The second lavender cockeral I would like to breed with the existing black pullets from the hatch just to see what comes of it.

 

[joebryant]

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I sure hope my getting two or three all-navy-blue (almost look black) hens will never require all this thinking. I'm retired! I never want to think about anything remotely complicated again for as long as I live.

 

[Sachasmom]

So, where does the Lavender come from? I mean to start with to cross it in to make a new color?

And can you make Lavender patterned birds? Like a Lavender cuckoo or some other pattern?

Just wondering! I think I had a Lav Ameracauna maybe, of course, it may have been a really bad blue. It sure was pretty, until it just dropped dead. Drat.

 

[wilds of pa]

According to Priscilla Middleton, size was lost in most lavender Orp breedings by her and there for you may get a small hand full of sizable offspring f2-f3 to work with, from what she talked about that most of the progeny had lost size compared to there parent size, we cant confirm this yet, but some of our lavender offspring seem to be of nice size all ready and we can only hope as they fill out more that we do get some good sizable ones to continue on with, out of the groups we have now which is around 90++ some lavenders growing out, i only see a small percentage that look to be on the smaller side, but for the most part the rest look awesome, out of about 13 roo's from the first 2 groups(we have 5 groups growing out more still hatching) we selected 3 of Roo's and we choose them for there color which they are super clear in lavender(no ticking or straw affect) at this point and body conformation looks good, but of course there will be more breeding as we go along, we also will bring in more orp blood along the way at some point. These birds will be a work in progress for some time to they get to were most of us would like them to be, the good thing about it all is, that the lavender Orpington will make it here in the USA and i think within the next few years ahead we will see them at shows and all over before all of us.. i want to thank every body who is working on this New color in are very favorite Orpington breed..

Charlie

 

[gumpsgirl]

They are turning out to be really lovely chicks MissP!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Typically you use birds from a different breed (with as few differences as possible) that already has lavender to introduce the gene.

Using dark navy blue birds isn't really different than using lighter blues, at least genetically.

Yes, you can have patterns with lavender: porcelain is mille fleur plus lavender. The appearance of the pattern, however is much more subtle than with vibrant colours.

 

[Krys109uk]

Priscilla Middleton made hers using a leghorn which had white legs.

There are already at least two people in US with lavenders orps with good type. We got a starter bird from a friend of a friend a few years ago. If my daughter ever finds the lead to her camera i could try posting some pics of our lavenders (I've never posted a pic before).