Wanted: Lavender Jersey Giants

[wilds of pa]

Anybody wanting to make a breed lavender that does not have the gene already will have to add it.

You will need to introduce a lavender fowl into your pens. Breed them preferably to your black birds.
Unless you want to mate him to splash, which in the end you "may wind up" with lavender chicks, splash chicks and possible splash lavender..never tried the splash vs lavender, but i could see itself playing out as i mentioned..

Then the offspring from those matings will all be caring one copy of the lavender gene, you will want to grow those out and ultimately mate them back to the lavender you brought in or to each other and breed for conformation.

remember lavender is not really a color per-say, it is a diluter of black and red.. requires two copy's of the gene to be visible on any particular bird.

Charlie

 

[L&Schickens]

Maybe I can just erase the black spots off the chickens and call them Lav!!

 

[WiseChicks]

Cool! Thanks for the breeding info!

 

[wilds of pa]

Hey L&S, What might happen with a splash lavender...
You have all the black being lavender and the white will still be there..may work!!

I'm going to get an up date pic of our mottled orps in lavender mottled and standard mottled which is what we believe they are??, just so you can get an idea of what may happen with a splash..of course the mottled is much more defined..

Charlie

 

[wilds of pa]

Here's some updated pic's here of the mottle and lavender mottled orp projects
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1433584#p1433584

 

[L&Schickens]

Outstanding!! Please put me on your egg list for when you get some, if you are selling that is.

Mottled and Lav would be great!!