WHere did the Lavender Orp and/or Lavender EE come from Breeding wise.Color linage.

[Roxannemc]

2 questions i dont see answers too..please direct me. or answer.

What genetic make up brought the Lavender EE into being?
Is it a Lavender Orp crossed with a white EE?

What genetic crosses made the Lavender Orp.?
Black x white?
If i have the orginal backgrounds i feel i can get a better grip on what can be done crossing these chickens by what has been done

I love this lavender blue color

.Are there Lavender Brahmas?I have heard blue not Lavender

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

lavender requires that the lav gene be bred in. Typically one will cross a black bird to the breed where the gene exists and the type is as near as possible to the standard of the breed you are working on. I cannot speak to the specifics of orpingtons or ameraucanas, (don't know of anyone trying to purify EE varieties), but there are threads for each of these where you can ask.

 

[Roxannemc]

Thank you so much for your answer That is good to know but i was hoping to find the origin of the Lavender before there were any.
Who crossed what to who? who was the first to come up with a lavender Orp ? A lavender EE and how.?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

As I suggested, ask on the lavender orp and lavender americana threads for those specific breeds. If you want to know when lavender was first found in any breed, ask at The-Coop. Someone is bound to know.

 

[Roxannemc]

the Coop? Is that on here?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

http://www.the-coop.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=3&page=1

Not really a BYC competitor...this is where the REAL geneticists hang out.

 

[Roxannemc]

Thanks all.. appreciate it..

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

http://www.the-coop.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=92852&page=1 speaks to the origin of lavender. No simple answer, though.

 

[Roxannemc]

Wow .....that WAS SO helpful. Thank you!
Just what i wanted ...but sadly it is being debated yet!!! DEuccle or quail or ?????
Wel lDNA will sort it out one day.
Do wish i had seen a date that debate was going on though Some time after 2009 anyway as one Professors sign up then,.
Things may have progress by now but at least i get an idea