picklepat
Chirping
- Mar 30, 2021
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I need some help here. My mother passed away and I inherited her trio of English Lavender Orpingtons. This is their first year laying and I hatched out 1 batch of 8 eggs and they were gorgeous and fluffy, typical Lavender orp chicks. The second batch last week hatched and 2 of them were yellow with a Lavender stripe down their back and head, definitely not what I was expecting! So I thought maybe I marked eggs wrong or something and let it go. 3rd hatch today and 2 yellow babies with Lavender on their back and head. I am 100% sure there was no other rooster that could have gotten in and they have been housed together for at least
6 months. I will post pics of the parents and the one baby. What the heck is going on with this? Can anybody help me figure out how I am getting yellow chicks from Lavender parents?