Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

[Brody's Broodello]

Well the Heat is on here badly! The fans are running overtime trying to keep the silkies from melting. Lots of new Broodies here! The hens are flopping down faster than I can count, one minute they are up, the next they are plastered to the floor! The crazy part is that they are laying up a storm, the bator is full, I have about 50 eggs to set! Usually the heat hits and they completely stop laying but not this year! Go figure!

A new pullet started to lay today, one of my Lav Quad chicks that I bought from Brenda during the Blizzards in Feb. I wound up with 2 pair, which works great since I'll be able to cross them in with my homegrown flock of Lavs!

 

[jen5680]

I think you need to just ship some eggs to my house so I can take some of the load off for ya!!

It is really hot in Ohio too!! I think the fans help but it just feels like hot air blowing around!!
Poor little sweeties!!

 

[Gordonhillfarm]

What a wonderful thread , I found it a few days ago and have read to page 62 and still reading . I've thought about printing it out there is sooooooo much great information here . Just wanted to say hello , and thanks to the ones who started this thread . ok back to reading cann't wait to see how everyones hatches turn out .

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

Brody's Broodello :

The crazy part is that they are laying up a storm...Usually the heat hits and they completely stop laying but not this year! Go figure!

Same here. I cannot believe that they haven't closed up shop!​

 

[ninejw]

How can you tell if a silkie is lavender split to splash by the resultant birds color? What's the dif btwn that bird and a splash blue as far as the what you are looking at difference? Am I making sense with the phrasing of this question or is my brain overheated?

 

[Elite Silkies]

A splash/lavender will look splotchy. You can tell the true lavenders from the wing shafts. I think Sonoran put up a picture of a wing showing the difference. Someone did anyway. But, it takes awhile to breed the splotches out.

 

[robin416]

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No, I don't think that is correct. Two copies of lavender is lavender. The problem is the washed markings of a splash make it very difficult to identify its true coloring. That's where the feather shaft identification comes in. A pure lavender bird will not have any markings to breed out if it is pure lavender.

And if you are lucky enough to breed two birds carrying the lavender gene you might get a pure lavender but if they have splash markings then you know it is not lavender.

That is why they've said time and time again, do not breed a lavender bird to anything but black. Blues and splashes are too similar in appearance to know what you've got going color wise.

 

[Elite Silkies]

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No, I don't think that is correct. Two copies of lavender is lavender. The problem is the washed markings of a splash make it very difficult to identify its true coloring. That's where the feather shaft identification comes in. A pure lavender bird will not have any markings to breed out if it is pure lavender.

And if you are lucky enough to breed two birds carrying the lavender gene you might get a pure lavender but if they have splash markings then you know it is not lavender.

That is why they've said time and time again, do not breed a lavender bird to anything but black. Blues and splashes are too similar in appearance to know what you've got going color wise.

The issue was discussed in detail in this thread earlier. I'll go back and find it.

 

[Elite Silkies]

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Here is one statement about breeding Lavender to Splash

But, I am pretty sure that there is a way to determine by wing shafts. I have to find that thread again.

 

[robin416]

That's only if the bird is carrying two copies of the lavender gene. Then you will see the shaft color difference. If the bird only has one copy you will not see the shaft difference.