Questions on breeding for Lavender

[Elite Silkies]

I need help with breeding on the Lavender. I have Black Australorps and want to produce the Lavender.

If anyone can help, I would appreciate it.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

You will need to introduce a bird that has lavender. I suggest some of the Orpingtons available on here. Some are very similar to Australorps and shouldn't deter from the body-type too much.

When you introduce the color to your birds, the F1 generation from the lavender x black breeding will produce split-lavender chicks that look all black.

 

[Elite Silkies]

If I get split lavender chicks that look all black, is that just at hatch? Will some of them turn lavender as they get older, or do I have to breed the chicks, then I will get lavender?

Thanks for the help.

 

[blueoval1]

You can breed the chicks back to a lavender bird or breed them toghether.

 

[Krys109uk]

If I get split lavender chicks that look all black, is that just at hatch?

The 'Split' lavender chicks will stay black.​

 

[blackclownfish16]

When the split chicks are bred amongst each other you should get 25% lavender.

 

[Elite Silkies]

So, with the 25% lavender chicks I get, I can breed them together and get 100% lavender, correct?

If so, I have a long road ahead of me...............I'll be working for awhile

Now, I just have to find me some lavenders, and I'm on my way

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Get and breed two unrelated lavenders to unrelated blacks. As chicks hatch mark them as to which pair produced them. Those offspring are all split for lav: Lav+/lav. Breed the chicks from each group together. 25% will be lavender, select for type and breed back to parents and 50% should be lavender. Continue selecting for type until you have regained it. One you have, breed lavenders only to each other--the only point in the splits is to create a gene pool and for breeding to type.

 

[peepdaddy]

If your interest is lavender birds, it would be simpler to get rid of the australorps (sale them, etc.) then buy a lavender rooster and a couple or three lavender hens. You'd be much further along much faster.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Lavender is a colour, not a breed. Should be pretty easy to fix the gene in a black bird--just need a lavender bird that is as similar to the breed as possible.