Any idea on chick colors?

[Petaluma Petting Zoo]

Any idea what you get with a chocolate Orpington Rooster and a chocolate gold laced hen?

 

[Fluffy_the_chicken]

Might be a chocolate color with some gold lacing or just chocolate. Good luck! Share the chicks if you get any!

 

[Petaluma Petting Zoo]

That would be perfect- thank you so much

 

[The Kooky Kiwi]

Hi There..

I shall let others comment in respect of your anticipated color outcomes.. but in terms of pattern outcomes I am happy to offer some comments.

I recently replied to another poster that was embarking on a similar project and, rather than rewrite the same information, I've been cheeky and simply quoted and slightly edited my original post below

Sebright lacing is the result of several genes acting together:

ER/ER (Birchen Base)
Co/Co (Two Columbian Gene copies)
Db/Db (Two Ginger Gene copies)
Pg/Pg (Two Pencilled/Laced Gene copies)
Ml/Ml (Two Melanised Gene copies)

The lacing "recipe" for your bird may differ slightly to this depending on what "E" base your bird has. But the following principal will remain the same.

Genetically speaking, once you cross your laced bird to another non laced bird, you are breaking up the double gene traits listed above because your laced bird will only hand down one gene from each set to her chicks (They will get Co, Db, Pg, Ml - one copy of each).

It's best you read up on how each of the above gene's affect each other and what happens when only one gene is present instead of two.
Several of these genes allow for "partial expression" and with only one copy present will show as an "incomplete" result - like "incomplete" lacing or "dirty" feathers etc.).

You can expect that you will need to contribute a lot of time. Simple probability means you will need to breed enough birds so that you can select the ones that happen to receive enough of the traits to form a full and proper lace and remove all other non desired pattern effects.

For interest - here are some of my project birds that contain "some" of the above traits and who are showing various stages of "incomplete" lacing with varying degrees of incorrectness.

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