Which one is the lavendar orpington?

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Bedste, lavenders must carry two copies of the lav gene as it is recessive. If you modify the input into the chicken calculator so that the blue carries lav in either one or two copies the results will vary.

 

[hinkjc]

Neither appears lavender to me. My lavenders have never produced yellow skin either. Yellow skin was never a factor in the project - all birds had white skin. Reminds me of a blue splash rock or jersey giant maybe.

 

[elizwlsn]

Well now I'm going to have to rethink spring eggs. I had purchased another dz. of mixed orpingtons from someone else which was suppose to have lav. as well as buff and BBS but the lav's were scrambled when they got here so I threw them all out because the carton was really smelly, but it seems when she and I emailed she had tucked a lav in the box separately and I bet I kept that one because it wasn't in the carton with the smelly bad eggs. I had forgotten all about that egg and they all came at the same time. I have been thinking they were all from 2 places but I bet I kept that one extra because it was lav and not contaminated from the bad eggs. Hmmmmm.

 

[Krys109uk]

elizwlsn, was the lavender egg you hatched expected to be a lavender bird? Was the mating from a lavender to a lavender, or could it have been lavender to a black carrying a lavender gene or lavender to black non lavender? If so the lavender egg could have hatched to be a black bird carrying a lavender gene.

If the hatched lavender egg was certainly going to be a lavender coloured bird, then the likelihood is that she is the bird on the left. I have a lavender bird with a darker head for some reason thatI do not know & it is not from the same lines. I have not seen lavenders with black spots. There was a lavender with black fathers recently but your bird does not look the same. Perhaps the black will moult out.

You will be able to tell for certain if she is lavender by looking at the feather shafts, an andalusian blue can have darker shafts on both sides of the feather. Also quite often lavender birds has a sort of silver sheen.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

The one egg I sent you would have been from my Split Black Lavenders that carry the lavender gene. Meaning could have hatched a lavender color, split black lav carrying the lavender gene and a chance of plain black chicks hatching out.

 

[Krys109uk]

The one egg I sent you would have been from my Split Black Lavenders that carry the lavender gene. Meaning could have hatched a lavender color, split black lav carrying the lavender gene and a chance of plain black chicks hatching out.

elizwlsn, if your chick hatched from this mating there is only a one in four chance of the bird hatching out lavender coloured; there is a one in two chance of the chick being black but carrying a lavneder gene & a one in four chance of the resulting chick being plain black, not carrying a lavender gene at all.

If your light blue bird is not lavender (from checking the underside of her feathershafts), then the chick which hatched from the egg will be the black chick. If the chick from the lavender egg is the black chick, the only way you will be able to tell if she is carrying a lavender gene would be to breed her with a lavender male.

Either way it might be a good idea to contact the breeder of the eggs from which the yellow legged bird hatched & let them know their birds are throwing yellow legged offspring. This will alert the breeder & they can test mate to find the female carrying a non white gene (the father will also have been a carrier).​

 

[wilds of pa]

LOL

, One looks like A splash, the other Andalusian blue.. None look like lavender to me, not as i know it and see it

Possibley Jersey blood, Rock Blood if having yellow skin..???

 

[elizwlsn]

I guess that's why I thought it must be a lavendar because it wasn't black and no one ever says you get a blue out of it. Now the question is who's lavendar split was it?

I remember watching it hatch and being so excited it wasn't black. Sure wish I had banded them when they hatched.

 

[Krys109uk]

I remember watching it hatch and being so excited it wasn't black. Sure wish I had banded them when they hatched.

Logically speaking, as you watched the egg marked "lavender" hatch & it wasn't black then, it must have been lavender. BTW lavenders are an even dove grey at hatch.

From the birds you describe as having resulted from that hatch, it sounds as if the left bird in the pic is the only bird which can be the lavender (it doesn't really look particularly like typical splash to me).

Did you look at the underside of the lights or tail feathers? The bird on the right is definitely andalusian blue &, from what you said, none of the other birds could conceivably be the lavender.​

 

[wilds of pa]

Heres a fresh batch of lavenders from today that hatched along with my Bobby's..very consistent color,
will be changing things up soon with some fresh black orp blood..