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    The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

    Greetings! I desperately need a mature RIR rooster who is very eager to have some exotic hens all to himself for a color project! I thought I had a source lined up months ago but then I never heard back. :( I live in Ayer, MA, about 45 min NW of Boston and about 30 min S of Nashua, NH...
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    The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

    Greetings all. I am in Ayer, Massachusetts, looking for a nice dark Rhode Island Red cockerel/rooster. I would also buy one or two females to go with him, if available, but mostly I need the male. If anyone nearby can help me out, please message me! Thanks.
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    NEAS Meet-up's Westford ma (buy sell swap)11/4 see post #1090

    I am looking for a Rhode Island Red rooster (very dark heritage-type - see example photo below - not hatchery stock or "production red"). Would also buy one or two hens if available, but mainly need the boy. Please let me know if you or someone you know of has any available! (photo borrowed...
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    NEAS Meet-up's Westford ma (buy sell swap)11/4 see post #1090

    I have a 5 year old cinnamon green cheeked conure female (previous owner claimed she hatched a clutch of eggs, but I can't confirm gender). I hope to make the swap but if you are interested in her please message me. She is extremely sweet and deserves more attention than I can give her now that...
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    Chocolate Serama Breeders - dun and blue can be included here as well

    So who wants to start a company that performs retail genetic testing of chickens? I will be one of the first to contribute to the kickstarter campaign! ;)
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    Chocolate Serama Breeders - dun and blue can be included here as well

    Thank you for clarifying. I was confused why you would call Ct. Chocula pumpkin, when he is clearly not orange, unless you were referring to him expressing a "pumpkin" gene. I believe the pumpkin color is, as I stated before, created by a combination of black restrictors, which restrict black to...
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    Chocolate Serama Breeders - dun and blue can be included here as well

    Yes, Wheaten/Chocolate can mean wheaten split to chocolate, which means the same thing as chocolate carrier. (Which is a lot different than what you posted: Chocolate-Wheaten.) Just be sure to only apply such terminology to males, as females cannot be split to, or carriers of, chocolate. They...
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    Chocolate Serama Breeders - dun and blue can be included here as well

    To me, Count Chocula looks like he has chocolate lacing. Not everyone means "solid chocolate" when they say they have a chocolate Serama - just that they have a Serama expressing the chocolate gene. Now I don't know what exactly you are referring to when you say pumpkin. It sounds like you are...
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    Chocolate Serama Breeders - dun and blue can be included here as well

    I can't tell you how much bad luck I have had trying to breed, hatch and raise chocolate Seramas in Massachusetts! Terrible hatch rate was just one of the problems. Last summer I averaged about a 10% hatch rate once we had to turn on our central air conditioning. And almost all of the chicks I...
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    Chocolate Serama Breeders - dun and blue can be included here as well

    I suspected I had dun in my chocolate pen when this light chick (presumably double dose of dun) hatched out. (I have never had any pumpkin colored Seramas.) But the chick did not survive and, later, I lost many of my chocolate breeders during a cold weather spell. So I had to start fresh this...
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    Chocolate Serama Breeders - dun and blue can be included here as well

    What a very pretty pattern. I love Seramas so much because there is no limit to the color and pattern combinations they can come in. I wish there was no limit to my time, energy and space for raising them! There are too many color projects I wish I could work on.
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    Chocolate Serama Breeders - dun and blue can be included here as well

    Chocolate roo x blue hen is a neat sex-linked cross. The females will be chocolate or mauve and the males will be black or blue!
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    Chocolate Serama Breeders - dun and blue can be included here as well

    Neat, I think your mauve might be a different shade than any color I have...and I do have a LOT! Would love to see it in better natural lighting when you have time. :D
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