Splash/lavender Orpington Genders - 6 weeks old

[smott]

What did the third chick turn out to be? I have ten that are seven weeks old. Two are definitely cockerels with significant combs and wattles, five have barely there combs so very hopeful hens and three are kind of halfway in between - one with emerging wattle, the other two no visible wattles yet.

Don’t know if anyone is still watching but maybe I’ll try to post pictures.

Sorry for the delayed response! I wound up with one lavender hen, a big beautiful lavender roo, and the other roo is still very pale ivory with silver and buff in his wings/tail.

Hannah and Hank above

Big Harry

 

[tdkmom]

Well Harry is a very handsome rooster! Having 2 roos isn't the best of situations though.

 

[Amer]

@Amer @The Moonshiner @nicalandia what do you make of the white-ish cockerel?

I’d lean towards lavender blue. I had a couple d’Anvers hens (still have one) with the same coloring. It’s almost white but the shafts are dark, and the feathers are very soft without breakage. Obviously Hank has a but of leakage in the shoulder, but that wouldn’t change him from being lavender blue. I thought my hen was splash or plain lavender, but she produces lavender offspring with lavenders and splits and she produced some blues I believe and another hen like her.