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Leighe
Songster
My Lavender Orpingtons look like the Blue Orpingtons only much lighter. So I now understand the light and dark splotch thing. Again....I have learned something!It takes two copies of the lavender gene to be expressed. There is always a possibility they could carry one copy and it is sight unseen.
It would be rare though. Most breeders don't cross lavender birds with BBS birds since it is hard to keep what's what straight.
Look at a lavender bird and notice how light the color is. If your birds were lavender those splotches would not be near that dark.