LF Chocolate Brown Colored Orpington

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Tony

Tony

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Jan 16, 2008
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This is one of my orpington hens, her sister is solid black. I hatched these last year. She`s chocolate brown colored, I`m NOT saying she is a chocolate orp, just colored like one. She is large fowl.
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PLEASE pardon the mud, it was raining all day.
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It is my understanding that chocolate orps came from a genetic "mutation" so to say. What I mean by this is that black orps were not bred to another type of chocolate bird to make chocolate orps, but that it just popped up into a line of black orpingtons. I would say that you my friend might have a chocolate orpington. How much you asking for her
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Chocolate is sex linked recessive. It was originally found by Dr Clive Carefoot in a line of Back Orpingtons. It has been previously reported in the US, but unfortunately the breeder culled it out as it was not in accordance with the APA Standard.
To test if you have sex linked recessive Chocolate mate this bird to it's father, if you have this gene ½ your chicks will be Chocolate.
If you no longer have the father you will need to mate her to Black Orp, and then mate her to a resulting son. If you have the gene ½ your chicks from this latter mating will be Chocolate.
David
 
Unfortunately I no longer have her father, I do however have a black roo. So I will definately give it a try. Thanks everyone.
 
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