I just picked up 4, lovely, all-black chicks from a friend. I had thought they were the offspring of a Lavender Orpington rooster and some Silver-Laced Wyandotte hens but today my friend told me she had separated her breeds so that the SLW hens were with the Blue-Laced Red Wyandotte rooster for 3-4 weeks before she collected eggs to incubate.
With my imperfect knowledge of chicken color genetics I thought that the black could only come from the Lavender and that BLRW over SLW would *have to* produce stripey chicks who ended up laced.
I don't have photos of the hens, though I have seen them and they look like perfectly normal Buff Orpingtons and Silver-Laced Wyandottes. I do have photos of the 2 roosters:
And the chicks, all 4 apparently identical, (hatch date was April 10).
With my imperfect knowledge of chicken color genetics I thought that the black could only come from the Lavender and that BLRW over SLW would *have to* produce stripey chicks who ended up laced.
I don't have photos of the hens, though I have seen them and they look like perfectly normal Buff Orpingtons and Silver-Laced Wyandottes. I do have photos of the 2 roosters:
And the chicks, all 4 apparently identical, (hatch date was April 10).