Does anyone know how I would produce chocolate mottled orpingtons. I have chocolates and mottled but not real sure how to produce true choc mottled?
The easiest way I can think of would be to cross a chocolate (preferably male) with a mottled (use multiple hens so that there will be more genetic diversity), then cross their babies together (or cross the male babies with mottled hens) and you should get some mottled chocolates (these might be only females unless you originally started with a choc male).
If you started with a chocolate male and mottled females then you should get both choc mottled males and females by this point. If you started with a mottled roo and choc hens you will need to cross the choc mottled hens with their brothers to get both choc mottled hens and roos.