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If I remember right - Her parents were blue and black. She's not chocolate - That color cannot be created.
Sometimes it does happen that a blue will get brown or straw colored streaking in its plumage - This girl just may be entirely of that leaking color - But she's still beautiful...
It's very hard to tell a difference. The only real way is to test mate. True chocolate is recessive so, when bred to black you will get all black (splits) You will need to breed them to chocolate to get chocolate. (like the lavender gene)
Dun, when bred to black, will give you 50% dun and...
This website has birds similar to yours and is calling them "chocolate"
http://www.hamandeggsranch.com/live/animals/poultry/chickens/chickens_bantam/seramas/main.htm
chocolate is a diluter of pigment like lavender. So, it is possible your birds are chocolate something or other. Like...
Are those from Jerry? I don't believe many serama breeders are breeding toward any particular color. The result of that is a mess of variations. I believe Jerry is breeding for chocolate but, I don't believe, those are 100% stable. I may be wrong. So, it is my belief that your chicks may be...