Chocolate projects?

[schafer11]

Does anybody know what color id get if I was to breed a chocolate orpington to a buff orpington.
Thanks

 

[jeremy]

You'd get Black male chicks, that were split to/recessively carrying the Choc gene, with red/gold leakage.

& Chocolate female chicks, or at least mostly Chocolate.

They would probably have some red/gold leakage too, or perhaps some patterning that looked similar to incomplete partridge.

 

[schafer11]

Thanks for the info.

 

[KYTinpusher]

I found out something interesting today - when you breed a Svarthöna (fibromelanistic) to a cockerel split to chocolate and the resulting chick (it's a girl!!!!) is chocolate, it makes EVERYTHING chocolate! The comb, the beak, the legs and all are chocolate! She is the one in the middle on the right side of the picture.
I imagine the bones and meat will be chocolate, too. I haven't been able to get myself to eat the black meat on the Svarthöna culls yet, but chocolate chicken? Maybe... lol

 

[smoothmule]

I found out something interesting today - when you breed a Svarthöna (fibromelanistic) to a cockerel split to chocolate and the resulting chick (it's a girl!!!!) is chocolate, it makes EVERYTHING chocolate! The comb, the beak, the legs and all are chocolate! She is the one in the middle on the right side of the picture.
I imagine the bones and meat will be chocolate, too. I haven't been able to get myself to eat the black meat on the Svarthöna culls yet, but chocolate chicken? Maybe... lol

How cool is that! I'll have to try it too, I have Cemani....I wonder if it will be the same?

 

[KYTinpusher]

How cool is that! I'll have to try it too, I have Cemani....I wonder if it will be the same?

I don't see why not, it is the same genes at work.

 

[cgmaster]

How cool is that! I'll have to try it too, I have Cemani....I wonder if it will be the same?

ooh I would love to see that!

Someday I might try and get myself a chocolate silkied ameraucana to cross with my wheatens and get silkied chocolate wheaten ameraucanas

 

[Lozuufy]

I found out something interesting today - when you breed a Svarthöna (fibromelanistic) to a cockerel split to chocolate and the resulting chick (it's a girl!!!!) is chocolate, it makes EVERYTHING chocolate! The comb, the beak, the legs and all are chocolate! She is the one in the middle on the right side of the picture.
I imagine the bones and meat will be chocolate, too. I haven't been able to get myself to eat the black meat on the Svarthöna culls yet, but chocolate chicken? Maybe... lol

That is so cool! I wonder if lavendar and blue would work also... since they are variations of black?

Now I gotta start breeding these too

 

[Lozuufy]

I just hatched some chocolate cream legbars! These are f2 crosses of a chocolate orpington and cream legbar cross, and I got 2 babies that have the CCL pattern (and barring) with the chocolate base color!

Single barred


Double barred


both

 

[schafer11]

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?