Chocolate Gene

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Yup. What we call chocolate and khaki in Polish is caused by the dun gene and breeds just like blue (mostly). The colors are called chocolate and khaki because the man that developed them (Al Westling) wanted them called that when they were admitted to the standard. And it is an accurate description of the colors, just not the gene.

If you breed chocolate X chocolate (dun based) you will get approximately 50% chocolate, 25% black, and 25% khaki. In breeding chocolate (dun-based) khaki acts like splash does in breeding blue.

edited for clarity. I was making word salad.

Actually I think the name requested for khaki was dun, but was not allowed by the standards committee--I'll have to go back and re-read the ABA minutes on that.

 

[Crunchie]

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Yup. What we call chocolate and khaki in Polish is caused by the dun gene and breeds just like blue (mostly). The colors are called chocolate and khaki because the man that developed them (Al Westling) wanted them called that when they were admitted to the standard. And it is an accurate description of the colors, just not the gene.

If you breed chocolate X chocolate (dun based) you will get approximately 50% chocolate, 25% black, and 25% khaki. In breeding chocolate (dun-based) khaki acts like splash does in breeding blue.

edited for clarity. I was making word salad.

Actually I think the name requested for khaki was dun, but was not allowed by the standards committee--I'll have to go back and re-read the ABA minutes on that.

The story I heard was Al wanted them called khaki 'cause the color reminded him of khakis, the pants.

I think there may be more to the story than that, but that's what I remember (though there's no trusting my memory most days

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