Blue laced chocolate?

[farmerChef]

what would be the best breeds and colors to create either a blue laced chocolate or a choc laced blue? Is one color more dominate than the other?

Desired traits:
large fowl/standard
green or chocolate egg
olive or slate legs
pea or rose comb
good egger

 

[BooBear]

Wyandotte pops in my mind.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Would there be enough difference in color between the blue and chocolate to really tell they were laced?

 

[farmerChef]

Yes, i was thinking blue laced red wyandotte and a chocolate orpington maybe...
like breeding this

with this

*not pictures of my chickens, found on internet*

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

I am NO genetics wiz... but, I think chocolate and blue both modify the black pigmentation. I'm not so sure you could get both appearing on the same bird. I may be wrong, and I hope I am! That would be cool combination.

I know dun and blue will combine to give a "platinum" color which is very pretty, but I can't find much information about sex linked chocolate and blue on the same bird.

I'll stay tuned, and hope the experts chime in!

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Not to discourage you, but good luck finding a true chocolate Orpington!

 

[RioLindoAz]

Just get a BLRW. Red is very similar in appearance to chocolate...

 

[TK Poultry]

Blue, Dun Chocolate, and True Chocolate all modify Black I do believe. Maybe you could get a Chocolate. Khaki, and Black Laced Red? It would be easier to do with bantams though. You could cross Dun Old English with Black Laced Red Wyandotte Bantams and in a few generations you should have something.

 

[RAREROO]

It would not be possible to make Blue laced chocolate. Blue and Chocolate are both dilution genes of Black and would combine together to make . They may have some combining and make a color that is visually between blue and choc. like how blue and dun makes platinum. But it would not be possible for both colors to be distinguished on the same bird.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Greenfire Farms has them. Like $1,000 each imports from somewhere....