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I'll post a pic of the older "Lav" OE. She is around 5 months old (tiny lil' thing)...I posted a pic of her at one month old, several pages back. Maybe we can get a better idea by looking at under feathers or wing feathers?
I'd love to see the other one too!
For genetics purposes, lavender behaves like black. And for the sake of argument your Blue Copper Marans roo is blue. So black x blue would give you blue and black offspring. (there will eventually be some copppering in the hackles I'd bet but that's besides the point now)
I'm willing to bet (an emu chick) that the two that aren't black are really just light blue. As they feather out, it will be easier to tell. Blue comes in lots of shades, and it's sometime hard to tell from lavender as chicks.
That said ALL of those OE's are carrying the lavender gene, they're just not showing it yet. The easiest thing to do would be to breed the black ones together. Then it will be obvious which chicks hatch out lavender. They would probably have a lighter egg color than the first cross, but it's hard to say. The genes could line up in a way that you get a darker olive egg... Regardless, you'd get some cool lavender mixes.
I'm just scratching the surface on learning genetics, but this sounds exactly right. That said, that chick is an odd shade of blue to me - I've hatched a ton of blue Jersey Giants & olive eggers, but I've never had one hatch THAT light! A true way to tell self blue (lavender) from blue is that he shafts of the feathers in lav will ALL be white.
I'll post a pic of the older "Lav" OE. She is around 5 months old (tiny lil' thing)...I posted a pic of her at one month old, several pages back. Maybe we can get a better idea by looking at under feathers or wing feathers?
I'd love to see the other one too!
For genetics purposes, lavender behaves like black. And for the sake of argument your Blue Copper Marans roo is blue. So black x blue would give you blue and black offspring. (there will eventually be some copppering in the hackles I'd bet but that's besides the point now)
I'm willing to bet (an emu chick) that the two that aren't black are really just light blue. As they feather out, it will be easier to tell. Blue comes in lots of shades, and it's sometime hard to tell from lavender as chicks.
That said ALL of those OE's are carrying the lavender gene, they're just not showing it yet. The easiest thing to do would be to breed the black ones together. Then it will be obvious which chicks hatch out lavender. They would probably have a lighter egg color than the first cross, but it's hard to say. The genes could line up in a way that you get a darker olive egg... Regardless, you'd get some cool lavender mixes.
I'm just scratching the surface on learning genetics, but this sounds exactly right. That said, that chick is an odd shade of blue to me - I've hatched a ton of blue Jersey Giants & olive eggers, but I've never had one hatch THAT light! A true way to tell self blue (lavender) from blue is that he shafts of the feathers in lav will ALL be white.
