Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

[sonew123]

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My chicks are from 100% lav/lav. They are chipmunk striped, sounds like you got a lav Natalie

yah--I knew it was a lav but I thought when you have pure lav to pure lav that they hatch out looking one color not chipmunky like from splits?? LOL --I got my answer thank you so much..heres hoping you get some chipmunky's from my eggs--was that my eggs you only have 4/12 left???

 

[CheshieChick13]

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My chicks are from 100% lav/lav. They are chipmunk striped, sounds like you got a lav Natalie

yah--I knew it was a lav but I thought when you have pure lav to pure lav that they hatch out looking one color not chipmunky like from splits?? LOL --I got my answer thank you so much..heres hoping you get some chipmunky's from my eggs--was that my eggs you only have 4/12 left???

No, I hatched 9/12 of your eggs...... and el stupid dog had a 10 piece chicken nugget meal (i snuck a blue under my broody)

The 4/12 is from my birds. I'm hoping all four hatch and are healthy

The eggs I am hatching now are from my 100%'s. I have actually heard (Im guessing this is not true) that Lav chicks are supposed to be some variant of chipmunk striped. Here's a few pics of my baby chipmunks

Happy Hatching !!!
~Steph

 

[bacres]

How cute!

 

[sonew123]

Steph,

that second photo looks just like the one I got

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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Unless you know all of your birds genetic makeup (their parents and grandparents) it can be very difficult to know. The way genes can come together, it could be a partridge. The lavender chipmunky looking chicks are generally very pales (the stripes, I mean). However, the pics below will show you how weird the colors can come in.

These birds are from a porcelain pen. As chicks they were buff looking with chipmunk stripes. As 4 month old birds, they were a darker lavender with hints of buff.

 

[sonew123]

I got the lav from Bad AZZ silkies from my chickenstock-he had two he hatched out just days before he came and I bought one Bob knows his genetics-they came from his split blue silkie pen So Im positive

it is a pure lav

 

[joe17]

I have some good blacks and some really dark blues also. Lavender is beautiful!!!!! What would happen if I bred lavender to black and dark blue then bred the offspring back to the father? I dont think I will be able to do that with dark blue though..... will anyone have any lavender roosters for sale in the spring??

 

[flgardengirl]

Beautiful babies! I am having trouble telling the partridge from the porcelain babies. Could anyone explain the difference and post some pics for comparison? Or is the porcelain a split thing like split lavender?
I am just starting with silkies and hatched out some different colors (not porcelain) from Bobbi Porto and cjexotics yesterday and today.

 

[joe17]

Can some one give me percentages that the offspring will be?

lav. split to black X lav. split to black = ????

lav. split to blue X black/blue = ??

lav. X lav. split = ??

Is there anyway to get 100% lav beside lav X lav??

 

[brenTx]

Split blue pen? What do you mean by that. Lavender to lavender will give you 100% lavenders. Blue and splash should NOT be used as they are so close in color when young it will be hard to sort the lavender chicks from the splits...on down the line. If you are crossing any color with a pure lavender then you will get chicks carrying one gene of lavender. THEN breed those off spring back to lavender and you will start to see lavenders. The percetages should be 50%. If you have bred to blue or splash you are going to have a heck of a time knowing what is what. Black seems to be the best cross to work on the lavender color gene, at least in silkies. All our stock has been crossed back to blacks which helped so much in our males with off color in their hackles and darkened their over all skin, eyes and beaks. The lavender blue split pen makes me wonder if they are pure? I have been told from the beginning..."just because it looks lavender doesn't make it so". You can probably show these birds but when it comes to breeding then you will not get good precetages of lavenders.

Please remember blue (carries one blue gene and one black gene ) as we know it in the silkie world, and lavender( self blue ) carries two lavender genes. These are two different colors not related at all except for "blue" in the name. Suze please correct me if I have my genetics wrong. I just KNOW crossing with blues and splash can be a real nightmare and set your breeding progaram back years.