Why cross black with lavender

[Illia]

You get a bird that looks much like a buff, but with little bits of black in the tail, sometimes in other regions of the body. Crossing back to buff gets you right back on track.

 

[DANNY]

Back on track for buff or wheaten? Do you know why wheaten is the only color you should breed to buff?
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[Illia]

Back on track to Buff.

Besides Buff, Wheaten is the only other color to properly breed to it because it is the closest to it. Both are Wheaten based, so from there you just need to get back the columbian, (theoretical) mahogany, dun, dilute genes, which takes just 2 generations, then a 3rd to clean up any possible heterozygous carriers.

 

[gumbii]

you'll get like, black patterned gold columbians...

lavenders are just diluted blacks... mille fleur with the lavender gene will make porcelains... a golden duckwing with the lavender gene will make a duckwing isabella... a silver duckwing with the lavender gene will make lavender silver duckwing... get it...?

 

[chickenlee]

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so if I crossed a buff orpington with a lavender orpington, and then took their offspring and bred to eachother over and over I would theoretically get the straw/cream colour? or would I cross the offspring back to the original buff/lavender parents?

thanks everybody, this is so interesting!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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so if I crossed a buff orpington with a lavender orpington, and then took their offspring and bred to eachother over and over I would theoretically get the straw/cream colour? or would I cross the offspring back to the original buff/lavender parents?

thanks everybody, this is so interesting!

Fastest way is to cross buff to lavender, then take those offspring and breed them together. 25% should be isabel, 50% buff split to lavender and 25% buff carrying no lavender. The last two groups will be indistinguishable from each other. If you want to avoid inbreeding, start with two separate buff & lavender breeding pairs, then cross the offspring from one group with those of the other.

 

[Chicnsrthebest]

I have a question related to this:
I have a flock of Lavender Orpingtons, and acquired one beautiful blue bird. What happens if you cross a blue to a lavender?

 

[thunderstruck9]

what do you get if you bred Isabel to Isabel? I'm guessing they don't breed true?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

what do you get if you bred Isabel to Isabel? I'm guessing they don't breed true?

depends on hte mix of other genes in them. Each isabel shoudl be pure for lav, so you should have lavender diluted whatever. If the genetic makeup of each is pretty much the same, you should get more isabels.

 

[Florida]

This is what I want to know. I have 3 blue, 1 black and a white splash, about 8 months all purchased as blue. Then I have 4 lavender about 4 months. Should I cross them? And what would I get if I do?