Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

[tiki244]

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I know nothing about lavender, but they are beautiful chicks.

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

It is true, that for Lav breeders in general, it is best to only breed black to Lav for splits... However, for someone with EXCELLENT breeding records, and extensive experience in breeding poultry, there isn't a problem breeding the Lav to blue....I'm not one of those

 

[drdoolittle]

I'm pretty excited----I just placed an order with Ideal Poultry on Fri., and included in the order are 10 self-blue (lavender) silkies! They are not shipping until April, but that's when I wanted them.

 

[ultasol]

With the toe punches marking these birds as being from the lav pen, they won't be used in any other breedings in the future. I don't want to introduce the lav gene into my blacks or blue/splash.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I don't see how this would lighten the lavender dilution. If anything, blues usually have less dilution than lavender, but when a bird has both, they are NOT cumulative. I do not understand the cell-level workings of the genes very well, so I do not know WHY, but I do know that birds who are blue and lavender appear more like blue than like lavender. Very difficult (at best) to distinguish from bird who are blue, but not lavender.

Removing melanizers, which might be a reason for breeding to blues is more likely to get coloured hackles than lighter colouring overall.

 

[brenTx]

You could breed to any color and as long as you are using a lavender (2 genes) you will get splits. THE main point is being able to sort what you get and it does sound like you are doing it with great records BUT...I agree with Suze....why work so hard? We know black improves the color and there are certain parts of this lavender gene you just aren't going to change. I do wish you the best with your breedings and it does take those willing to step outside the box to "discover" new things.

Remember what other breeds "show" sometimes aren't seen with our fluffy silkie feathering.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Here is a blue AND lavender pullet. You can see that she isn't completely blue....nor is she completely lavender. The color is very odd looking.

 

[Dylan's Silkies]

Here's my blue and lavender pullet. Her color is odd looking as well. She's not a blue and she's not a lavender.... (sorry for the blurry photo)

 

[ultasol]

I'm just trying to clean up the color in the males. It's not bad, but it's not perfect either. I thought I'd give something else a shot. I'm always open to suggestions. One thing I like about what I'm working with is that I haven't had any fertility/hatching problems in the lavenders nor the random blindness some have mentioned. In fact, that's why I have eggs up, I've hatched quite a few of the lavs this winter. They didn't go to the shows so their bums were trimmed early, although they were fertile before that.

 

[jen5680]

Those blue/lav chicks might not be the right color but they sure are beautiful!!!
I love that shade of blue or whatever you would call it.