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Quote: I believe you would get 25% chocolates. Isolate with the male for 2 weeks before collecting and setting eggs.

Nice looking! I am headed out for pics today. I hope to post my Chocolate GIANT roo!

Hey there! Nice looking hen. I too am working my way up in size with this color. I have a GINORMOUS rooster I put over my 2 largest hens. All three are different blood lines so I am hoping to make some larger hens! I will post pics when they grow out.

Here she is. My favorite. Fluffy butts! And here she is again in the fall leaves.

I have a pullet just getting ready to lay. She is by far my FAVORITE chocolate yet. Her comb is perfect and her carriage is roomy. Her tail feathers are everything I have been wanting! I can't wait to breed her and hopefully make more. She is the first chick I hatched from her parents of...

This hen has exceptionally big eyes. She has a lovely rise on her rump feathers and her coloring is really nice!

great! I am sick of this! I tried putting a chick under her and she just tried to kill it!

Is anyone finding their chocolates annoyingly broody? Any tricks for getting them to stop? I have one I keep locking out of the nest. She isn't on ANY EGGS ANYWAY! She just clucks around the yard all day sitting down. I need her to lay for me.

I too would like more photos as I am pursuing the mauve.

LOL! I had the opposite. I was SURE I had 3 pullets and 2 were roos. The comb on them isn't very big either. They just each have 1 long tail feather and my rooster has been a bit unfriendly to them. I am jealous. I had 1 of my eggs hatch and it is a boy. I will be putting him over my...

I'm very interested int he above post. I am in the same boat and while I have become very familar with teh chocolates, I am trying to get up to speed on the cuckoo. I have one chick just like the fuzzy barred one above. Maybe a girl? I guess your chicks are split, I am assuming the mom...

Jeremy- the lacing on your blues is to die for. I had a magnificent male last year that suddenly keeled over-not a mark on him. His lacing was superb. Since then I seem to be doing everything I can to chase that perfect lacing down! Your mauve is lovely too!!!!

I love my chocolate roo Hershy. His build is wonderful. He has an excellent comb and plumage. Best of all he is really so sweet. Today I threw some meal worms in and he picked one up and called his mate Kiss over to eat it! He is so sweet and attentive to whoever is in his charge. I just...

You may be VERY happy with them being so dark. My roo is really oranging up in the hackles. Anyone else seeing this? They say that chocolates are barely distinguishable from blacks in good breeding. Yes choc+choc=choc

Good question. I think there could be a CHANCE. For sure you would get black split. Females of course if they look chocolate are purely chocolate. Boys could be split. And you could have some vigor in the line.

Congrats! I love my chocolates. They are friendly and cuddly.

Here are my chocolates.

Hope you take good notes and share your results. I know some worry about folks breeding away form the SOP, but my feeling is it only makes breeding the SOP that much more challenging. Besides breeding for your personal needs is so much fun! Please keep us posted on your results. ALSO...

I think this is an excellent idea. I too don't do the bantam and they are HEAVY on the standard size. I know others will disagree, but I say go for it. And Keep us posted on your project. Mine seem mid sized, but they are not full grown.

I would. They look feathered enough. Isolate safely, but allow the rest to investigate. It's always hard for me to watch my hens sort out the pecking order with new birds! But it usually works itself out in a few days.