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    Breeding Chocolate Orpingtons

    Thanks so much, that’s really great advice! :)
  2. J

    Breeding Chocolate Orpingtons

    You’re right, it’s potentially a large and costly project! But when it comes to orpingtons I feel like you can never really go wrong! 😅 I’m fairly confident if I can, albeit with a lot of trial and error, breed a standard chocolate, it could have quite a lot of interest in Australia 🤞🏻 The...
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    Breeding Chocolate Orpingtons

    😂 Tim tam is a great reference! So theoretically if it’s not possible to tell which cockerels carried split chocolate genes, it’s best to breed the bantam chocolate rooster to the standard black hen, and then breed the female chocolate pullets from that lot to the bantam chocolate rooster as a...
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    Breeding Chocolate Orpingtons

    Thanks, that makes complete sense! From what I had read I thought by breeding to a non- chocolate rooster, none of the offspring would be chocolate and that I may run the risk of losing the chocolate colour as I continued to breed for size increase. but I didn’t consider the possibility about...
  5. J

    Breeding Chocolate Orpingtons

    No problems! Hi :) thank you for the link, I’ll take a look to make sure I’m on the right track colour wise
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    Breeding Chocolate Orpingtons

    Hi all, Hopefully I’m posting this in the right section. As background, I am based in Australia and over here we have primarily bantam chocolate orpingtons however I am hoping to breed standard. I am fairly new to the breeding world when it comes to crosses so I was hoping for some guidance...
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