Question about black bird/lav

[Chey1214]

These two birds together will continue with lavender birds correct?

 

[Chikyboy]

These two birds together will continue with lavender birds correct?

Assuming the black one carries the lavender gene, then yes. By crossing them together, you should get half lav, half black. Although the same one in the second photo looks kinda blue. But it is probably just me.

 

[Debbie292d]

These two birds together will continue with lavender birds correct?

If you scroll way down on this site, there's a chart for lavenders.

 

[Chey1214]

Assuming the black one carries the lavender gene, then yes. By crossing them together, you should get half lav, half black. Although the same one in the second photo looks kinda blue. But it is probably just me.

No your right it’s blue. I’m just accustomed to saying lav, it’s a self blue. I wanted to stay true to the breed color but I don’t know if this would mess the color up of the ameraucana bantam. If it will I won’t even try and breed them together

 

[I Like Turkeys]

No your right it’s blue. I’m just accustomed to saying lav, it’s a self blue. I wanted to stay true to the breed color but I don’t know if this would mess the color up of the ameraucana bantam. If it will I won’t even try and breed them together

Self blue is the same thing as lavender. when people say “blue“ they’re usually referencing Andalusian blue, aka BBS blue. That is a completely different gene than lavender/self blue.

lavender is the actual name of the gene, but for some reason lavenders were dubbed self-blue in exhibition standards. chickens and their baffling naming systems.

What color did you purchase the mostly-black one as? It looks to be super white, and have those bits of leakage on its wings. Maybe due just to age. Unless it’s a lavender split, you won’t get any lavender chicks from them. If it is a split, you’d get 50% lavender chicks. Crossing blacks and lavenders is perfectly fine, and often something done by ameraucana breeders to increase the quality of their lavender lines.