Chocolate/Dun Silkies?

[Sonoran Silkies]

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She looks Sun Bleached..

Very likely if she comes from blue breeding and previously looked blue. If this is the colour of her new feathers after a molt, then yes, she may well be chocolate.

 

[PrestonSloan08]

Well she has always beenthe same color!! Before and after molting!! But I have a couple more I got from the same person and they are definatly blue!! So if I want to have more her color I can breed her with a blue one?

 

[PrestonSloan08]

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Have to breed it in. I used chocolate polish. Here is my baby khaki; way too young to show, but nevertheless, she's in her first tomorrow in Tucson, then again at Shawnee in a couple of weeks.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20590_sam_1623.jpg

and with a pale lavender, a blue and a black for colour comparison.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20590_sam_1630.jpg


I have several younger ones as well. This is the first generation with all silkie features.


Dun is an allele of dominant white; choc is an entirely separate gene. Their appearance is virtually identical. Inheritance is completely different. Dun is incompletely dominant. One copy (I^D/i+) dilutes to the colour chocolate, two copies (I^D/I^D) dilutes to the colour khaki. Fawn silver duckwing is also based upon dun. The e-allele appears to make a huge difference in the amount of dilution. Silver vs gold seems to change the hue.

The one I posted earliers color looks just like that one in person!! So is that really chocolate? I'm so excited to have one!!

choc is a sex-linked recessive gene. All the US "chocolates" are actually dun-based. Unless someone is working on a project and has crossed seramas to get choc into a different breed, it is not present in the US, except in seramas. It is available in Europe and elsewhere in other breeds.

I am not aware of chocolate sumatras; they would be interesting to see as their black is so very intense; I wonder how their chocolate would be?

 

[PrestonSloan08]

Nobody else has chocolate silkies?

 

[StevenW.]

Well she has always beenthe same color!! Before and after molting!!

Ok..​

 

[Vanessabuffsnsilkies]

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I love her name

 

[PrestonSloan08]

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I love her name

Haha thanks!!

 

[laseterlass]

Has anybody been working this? I have my black silkie split to paint with red leakage.... Over a Marc Sacre bantam choc Orp. And my Marc Sacre bantam choc Orp Roo over a black silkie hen. I know that the Roo over black will make chocolate girls. The black split Roo over chocolate hen may not work as well. But there is a black Roo not split I can use. His type is not as nice though... It should produce black roos split to chocolate. Right? opinions?

 

[Smokin Silkies]

I have been working on Chocolate Silkies for a few years now but I've had MANY big setbacks along the way I started out with a Chocolate (not dun) split frizzle Serama roo from Pixie Chick and some Black Silkie hens from Aimee Crego. At the moment I have 5 Chocolate Silkie hens, 1 is a frizzle, and I have a pure Black Silkie rooster in with them. I did have a pure Chocolate Silkie boy but he was killed That also set me back quite a bit. Its been a fun project though and am happy with the results so far. They don't look 100% like a pure Silkie yet but the offspring I'm getting DO look like pure Silkies. Can't wait for them to grow out a bit...

 

[KoriSAF]

Im glad I found this thread. I have just been reading it, and thinking over the genetics. I have thought about pursuing a chocolate silkie project several times, but never started it. My blue cream/porcelain project has consumed most of my time. Id love to pursue it, and see where it goes, and the outcome.

Has anyone other than Suze used Chocolate Polish?