Anybody have any pics of chocolate or dun colored chickens,dun sumatra

[smoothmule]

That's great, exactly what I think should be done by anyone who is serious about a breed and breeding to improve and especially helpful to anyone learning. Is it set up so that anyone can use your database?

 

[Henk69]

yes, but contact me so I can backup your work (and for instructions etcetera).

 

[Kelpie]

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My hen went broody so she finally stayed still long enough to get a good picture. See how she has a copper head but her body is not really black, it's brown. Does anyone know if this color pattern has a name and what breed she is (it's not the best representation of her physique since she is puffed up).

 

[Henk69]

That is black, no doubt.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

here's some of my Dun Quail d'Anvers. The roos are very dark chocolate, the hens are more even brown.
We just started hatching from them and are getting a lot of Khakis out of them, which I am very excited about.
Also are working with these in our cuckoo and mottled pens to get dun versions of those color patterns too

 

[wclawrence]

THis rooster is out of a Khaki Red Phoenix and a Buff Ameraucana. He and his sister both have a single copy. You can't even tell it by looking at him unless you look really really close. I am currently raising some EEs from him (the mother is Asil/RIR)

This pullet had one copy as well. It seems like one copy expresses better on hens.

 

[Tony]

Here`s a Brown Orpington I have, don`t know if shes chocolate. She IS a pure Orpington. 2 of her daughters are the same color brown.

 

[Spudzville]

That looks like Chocolate to me. If I understand the genetics of Chocolate you need to breed her back to one of her sons and you should get more of that color and then breed a Chocolate rooster to a her and the offspring should be all Choclolate.

What color where her parents? Are thpse Lavenders that she is in with?

 

[Illia]

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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!!

 

[Msbear]

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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!!

Illia, though the color cannot be created... it can "pop up" as a recessive gene out of blacks.... I think

I believe the orpington breed in particular has had this happen before.