Chocolate OEB is black

I have been reading up on chocolates. If you breed to chocolates, you get black, chocolates and khaki. If you breed a chocolate black to a khaki, you will get dun every time, At least thats the way I understood it. I have some eggs in the bator from my pair of chocolates.

 

chocolate and dun are two different genes. Recessive chocolate is only found in serama in the US. What oegb breeders are calling chocolate is actually dun. Where cho breeds similar to lavender, dun breeds similar to andalusian blue. Breed dun to black, you should get 50% each.

 

OEGBs are not true Chocolate as Ms Bear said, they are Dun. And they breed the same way as when breeding blues. Blue to blue gives blues, blacks, and splashes and breeding dun to dun gives duns, blacks, and khakis. So no that black that you got comes from the same reason that you can get blacks and splashes when buying birds from hatcheries, though most hatcheries have that as a note in the breed descripition.

So the Black that you got is not carrying the Dun gene, but if you breed it or any other black to a dun or khaki, then you can produce more duns.

 

i have them here is what you get
ch x ch = bl , ch , ki
ch x bl = bl ch
ki x bl = ch
ch x ki = ch ki
ki x ki = ki
bl x bl = bl
just like blue/splash/black

 

The variety named "chocolate" can be created with either the choc gene or the dun gene. Dun & choc birds look quite similar. I know that, like blue, dun gives a wide range of shades. Not sure about choc in this regards.

With the dun gene, birds with to copies of the gene are khaki; birds with one copy are chocolate. Fawn (as in fawn silver duckwing) is also dun gene, but I have never been completely clear as to whether it is one or two copies.

 

Quote:Fawn is the exact same thing as Dun....
A breeder of Old English Bantams didn't like the "color name" Dun, so he started calling the color Fawn.....


Chris