Lavender Pekin Bantam
A variety of the Pekin Bantam
Chicken · Cream eggs · Ornamental
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About the Lavender Pekin Bantam
Lavender (self-blue) is a pale, silvery dove-grey that, unlike Blue, breeds true and shows no lacing or splashing. It is produced by a recessive gene, so two copies are needed for the colour to appear. A more recent addition to the recognised Pekin colours, its soft pastel tone is much admired on the breed's rounded, heavily feathered body.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Cream
- Eggs per year
- About 100
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure
- True bantam
- Yes
- Origin
- China
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus