Chocolate Australorp

[chickenmaniac]

they do look like a chocolate color

 

[IamSamSam]

or you could have been hoodwinked and have cross lorps. I was. My girls looked pure till first moult now I know they are Wyandottle x Austrolorps. Yours Look like RIR cross Austrolorp to me but Just my opinion from down under .

not the best pics but you see the lace and below before moult.

 

[chickened]

Maybe it was just my computer or something. They do look chocolaty. Chocolate is a resessive gene like lavendar, both parents have to carry the gene for the chicks to be chocolate. You could put them with a black roo and then breed the chicks together or breed a roo back to mom and see if you get more chocolates. If they are chocolate, you have 2 rare colored birds.

I was thinking of doing that. I have them with a black australorp now. They look kind of crappy with the molt but when you see them in person they are definitely not black and I do have some chocolate orps to compare them to but my chocolate orp hens are not as light as these two.

 

[IamSamSam]

sorry was looking at the brown leghorn and the tail looks the same... not so much like the Lorp. But maybe cross there too. I hope you have the rarer chocolate Austrolorp, but they are rare for a reason and Crosses are hard to pick.

 

[chickened]

sorry was looking at the brown leghorn and the tail looks the same... not so much like the Lorp. But maybe cross there too. I hope you have the rarer chocolate Austrolorp, but they are rare for a reason and Crosses are hard to pick.

The crosses I have done with Australorps and RIR came out black with red leakage not a blended color. The legs usually are yellow on the bottom of that cross also.

I will be kind of excited if they breed true.

 

[IamSamSam]

I hope they do ! keep us Posted. I was on the other hand disappointed my Lorps were not pure. The breeder apologized and she refunded half the cost.

Couldn't get rid of them as the kids have named them Roo and Orppy LOL

 

[draye]

Anything come of these Chocolate Australorp's?