Chocolate Birds in the US?

[Sonoran Silkies]

Well, Root, look at your avatar. I think you already did the radiation experiment!

 

[Rootball]

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Ill update when he feathers back in, keep your fingers crossed for chocolate!

 

[onthespot]

how bad of black does a bird have to be to be considered chocolate? There was a bad black jersey giant roo for sale a while back. I kept trying to see him in a different light, but he always looked not quite black to me. like burnt black.

 

[Rootball]

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I dont know.....real chocolate birds are a beautiful chocolate color, but with melanisers or diluters I dont know what they would look like.


There are also glossy genes which can affect the way they look.

 

[Henk69]

Chocolate can be very dark up to off black.
This is probably due to melanizers.
If you cross a chocolate suspect roo to a non black chicken the melanizers should be reduced and the chocolate tint would become more brown (lighter).

But chocolate chickdown should be easily recognized. They get darker with age.

 

[danischi24]

Are these chocolate?

http://www.yad2.co.il/Pets/hotPicPe...=325637&Code=dec872fc3a42fea09f4f1a8e9637ef90

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Look like it to me! Beautiful! Are these yours?

 

[Henk69]

I have a mahogany feel about them.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I'm thinking choc plus mahogany would give a richer tone to the colour? Or is it more of an "either/or" situation as far as phenotype?

 

[Henk69]

I think those colors would be pretty close.
But I don't think the red would "warm" up the chocolate.