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Title: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: John on May 07, 2013, 09:35:01 PM

I noticed this lavender LF chick in one of the pens yesterday. He/she has white in the wing and on the breast.  The tail feathers don't show any white (yet).  I won't keep the bird to breed from, but would like to know what gene(s) are causing this.

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: Mike Gilbert on May 08, 2013, 07:59:26 AM

Mottling?   It's hard to see all the white from the photos.

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: HarryS on May 08, 2013, 09:55:48 AM

John,
   Are going to pursue that mutation.  If not I am sure there would be some that would love to have that bird.  That color in LF Orpingtons have commanded a large revenue. 
    I have blacks I bought from someone that has thrown some chicks that look like they may be mottled but I culled them all since I am after pure blacks and not ones that carry some odd gene mutations. 

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: John on May 08, 2013, 10:04:02 AM

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I am sure there would be some that would love to have that bird.

He is free to any ABC member that wants him and maybe I'll find more like him in a week or so when I get a chance to sort thru the growing birds.

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: dak on May 08, 2013, 11:11:01 PM

What is the leg/shank pigment like?  In the line of Mottles I have you can sex them by the lack of pigment in the males.

Also, mottled birds are apparent at hatch by their tuxedo pattern.

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: John on May 09, 2013, 09:27:08 AM

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What is the leg/shank pigment like?

Dark slate.  You can see the toes in one of the photos above.

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: Mike Gilbert on May 09, 2013, 11:48:16 AM

I only suggested it might be mottling because I couldn't think of any other explanation.  I hope no one took that as gospel.   The markings really don't look that much like mottling upon closer inspection.   

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: jeeperspeepers-r4us on May 11, 2013, 05:10:50 PM

Hmmm new variety "Paint Lavender Ameraucana"

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: John on May 11, 2013, 11:58:47 PM

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Paint

I was looking into that too, but from the photos I've seen this doesn't really look like paint either. ;)
http://www.the-coop.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=109435#Post109435

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: Beth C on May 12, 2013, 01:53:34 PM

Maybe it's an Appy-cauna?  ;D

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: HarryS on May 12, 2013, 04:29:43 PM

I think Mike was on the money with his conception of a lavender mottled.  You can see one that went off on RareBreedAuctions of a large fowl Orpington. 

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: dak on May 16, 2013, 07:33:19 PM

Mottled chicks have a very distinct tuxedo pattern.  I'm sure John would have noted this at hatch.  probably just a variant of leakage. 
The two chicks on the left are Mottled (Black and Blue).  The two on the right are split to Mo. They hatched from eggs from Joseph Woodiel. 

Title: Re: Leaky Lavender?
Post by: Mike Gilbert on May 17, 2013, 09:31:43 AM

I'm not so sure the difference in chick down would have been that noticable in the lavender variety.  But I agree the wierd colored birds are probably not mottled.