Lavender Orpington
A variety of the Orpington
Chicken · Light brown eggs · Laying
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About the Lavender Orpington
Lavender (also called self-blue) is an even, pale grey-blue carried uniformly across the bird, without the darker feather lacing seen in Blue. It is produced by a separate recessive lavender gene, so unlike Blue it breeds true — lavender to lavender gives all lavender chicks. Not a PCGB standard colour and much sought after, but otherwise a full Orpington: heavy, soft-feathered and calm.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Light brown
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus