chocolate gene

[ChooksChick]

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How many of you out there are freakish like me and don't have any trouble reading that? It took me a minute to see that it was weird.

 

[Chris09]

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[Sonoran Silkies]

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Which gene do you have: choc or dun?

 

[pips&peeps]

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Which gene do you have: choc or dun?

This is what I think we will see as a big problem in the next couple of years. Sellers promoting birds as chocolate when they are dun and people not knowing what color their birds actually are. It's really going to be a "Buyer Beware" market.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Part of the problem here is that the variety name is chocolate, regardless of which gene is used. So calling them chocolate is correct from an SOP viewpoint.

IMO, though, if one is working with one or both of these genes, one needs to be VERY upfront on which genes are in the bird. I tend to use the word chocolate coloured when refering to birds that are either het. dun or hom. choc; and I refer to the gene as choc, not chocolate.

 

[flgardengirl]

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That's 2 Kewl !

 

[HenThymes]

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Which gene do you have: choc or dun?

Seeing that he is a serama, and only his female offspring showed chocolate I am going to say he is chocolate and not dun...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Which gene do you have: choc or dun?

Seeing that he is a serama, and only his female offspring showed chocolate I am going to say he is chocolate and not dun...

Well, you never stated that he was a serama, and you referred to sons as being black, dun & wild-type.

 

[HenThymes]

That has been the fun thing about this project, it has really been a learning tool. Yes he produced choc, blacks and I am calling it dun but they hatched a reddish brown tone, definitely not chocolate and all cockerels at that. Then there was the one or two that were what I would call wild type because it is still serama and they do have mix of colors in the genes. My chocolate hen brown is solid and has always been solid brown and it is a dark brown and not light.

Here is what his first offspring looked like. You can clearly see the difference in black, choc (in middle) and what I am calling dun (red toned) on the end. The cream one at the top is a 100% serama and not from the project.

 

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