Blue or Lavender?

Elana DeBolt

Songster
5 Years
May 27, 2017
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Good evening, so I have a few olive and easter eggers and I'm not sure what color they are or what their parents were, I have a lavender orpington roo to compare and they don't look lavender, but not blue either. I bred the olive egger roo to a black olive egger hen and am try to figure out what color they will be, also my black olive egger hen has yellow feet, like on the bottom, and I was wondering if the chicks will get those yellow feet to

Here is the lavender orpington.
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Here is the olive egger rooster I bred to my black hen (which is a green egg laying hen), his dad was a French Black copper Marans, he came from a blue egg
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This is the hen that I bred him to. But she has yellow on the bottom of her feet.
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Here are the other two hens
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And the hen beside the GLW hen
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Overveiw: What feather coloring would you call the second roo and last three hens? What color chicks can I expect from the second roo and black hen? And will they have her yellow feet?
 
Good evening, so I have a few olive and easter eggers and I'm not sure what color they are or what their parents were, I have a lavender orpington roo to compare and they don't look lavender, but not blue either. I bred the olive egger roo to a black olive egger hen and am try to figure out what color they will be, also my black olive egger hen has yellow feet, like on the bottom, and I was wondering if the chicks will get those yellow feet to

Here is the lavender orpington.
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Here is the olive egger rooster I bred to my black hen (which is a green egg laying hen), his dad was a French Black copper Marans, he came from a blue egg
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This is the hen that I bred him to. But she has yellow on the bottom of her feet.
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Here are the other two hens
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And the hen beside the GLW hen
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Overveiw: What feather coloring would you call the second roo and last three hens? What color chicks can I expect from the second roo and black hen? And will they have her yellow feet?
I don't think that Orpington too is purebred. He seems to have some barring on the neck and hackle area. Maybe he has some Barred Rock genes?
 
Your hens are blue.
Lavender is a pretty even color throughout (or should be)
Blue always shows darker on the head and hackle areas of a hen and head, hackles, shoulders and saddle areas on roosters.
Your orp rooster could very well be pure but he is color crossed. Orps have a few patterns with lavender and barring. He also has some leakage so he probably carries one copy of barring and is split between extended black and partridge.
 

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