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Suz:
I\'m so excited.  My first two chicks hatched this morning from the wheaten Ameraucana/self-blue d\'Anver cross.  They were still wet when I left for work, but they looked black.

John:
I think I missed something.  I thought you were going to cross lavender over your blacks.  Is anyone else working on laverder wheaten?

Suz:
Surprise!!!   Well, I started out wanting to cross blacks, but I only have the one black cockerel and he\'s getting some silver in his hackles and saddle feathers, so I didn\'t think he\'d be a good candidate.  It was mentioned in posts by bantamhill and grisaboy in the \"Lavender Bantams--? from Susie\" topic that I could try to make lavender wheatens.  Being a little anxious, and having access to wheatens, I\'m doing that until I get a better black.  I wonder, too, if anyone else has worked on lavender wheaten.  I can picture what the males will look like because I have a porcelain d\'uccle, but I\'m not sure what the lavender wheaten females would look like (hackle and body coloring.)

grisaboy:
Suz,
You shouldn\'t be afraid to use your black cockerel with silver hackles in the Lavendar project.  One of the problems with the lavendar color is the straw yellow color that shows up in the hackles of the males.  The silver hackles in your black male indicates that he is genetically silver.  Lavendar birds carrying Silver should  be much less inclined to have the straw colored hackles.  Silver hackles are much less visible against the lavendar background.

grisaboy:
Suz,
AS far as the wheaton X lavendar chicks being black;
The lavendar birds are most likely genetically E (black) which is dominant to e wh (wheaton).  The chicks are E, ewh-lavLAV.
Lavendar is recessive so none of the chicks will be lavendar but all carry the lavendar gene.  So basically what you have in this generation will look like Black crossed with wheaton. Expect the adults to look kind of like Brown Reds.

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