Lavender Wyandotte Breed Name:Lavender Wyandotte Unsexed Westphalian Deadlayers

Westphalian Deadlayers

allows day-old chicks to be sexed by color

The Schijndelaar was created by local veterinarian Ruud Kaasenbrood in the late 20th Century by crossing Araucanas (for their blue egg gene)

and this newest bloodline is offered separately from the earlier flock

but the Australian birds were unusually large and beautiful examples of the breed

Lavender Wyandotte Breed Name:Lavender Wyandotte Unsexed Westphalian DeadlayersWyandottes first appeared in the United States in the 1870s, the product of chicken breeders in New York and Massachusetts. Scholars debate the mix of breeds that gave rise to the Wyandotte, but the Hamburg likely contributed the neat rose comb that is evident in the breed. The new breed was named after a Northeastern tribe of Native Americans, the Wyandotte Nation. In the 21st Century, a striking color variant was introduced into the Wyandotte gene