Chocolate Orpington Project

[RAWR]

hmm..well we best be starting to look for dem freak-chocolate chickens

 

[KinderKorner]

lol Actually the best bet would probably be chocolate polish.

Because I bred a white polish to a Brahma and got a nearly perfect white brahma. Has no Polish features at all.

hmmm. And now my serch for Chocolate polish begins.

 

[Mrs MIA]

There was a long thread earlier this year or late last year on Chocolate Orps...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=91541

 

[Krys109uk]

Chocolate (choc) is a sex linked recessive gene, found by Dr Clive Carefoot not so very many years ago. The gene is still pretty rare. Henk was saying the gene is currently present in US in Seramas.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

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Well, now there's a thought!

i know right!? i think that if the chocolate gene gets passed down..ur gonna get chocolate birds and so one

Not to sound mean, but if it was that easy, I wouldn't be asking for help.

 

[chickenlittle32]

I have been reading a little into this, and found this....

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8894230?dopt=Abstract


Chocolate: a sex-linked recessive plumage colour mutant of the domestic fowl.


1. A mating between Black Orpington bantams produced, in addition to blacks, a single female in which the black colouration was replaced by dark chocolate. 2. A mating of the chocolate-coloured female with a black male, F2 and backcross matings demonstrated that the chocolate phenotype is caused by a recessive sex-linked gene to which I assign the symbol *CHOC. 3. A mating of "chocolates' inter se yielded all chocolate offspring

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

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Ah-hah! Now we're getting somewhere.

 

[scbatz33]

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Kind of like the lav - once you have it showing you mate back til you are getting all of the same color. Still the key is to get the chocolate in the first place!!

 

[RAWR]

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i know right!? i think that if the chocolate gene gets passed down..ur gonna get chocolate birds and so one

Not to sound mean, but if it was that easy, I wouldn't be asking for help.

lol i know. i think we all no... xD it was a blonde moment

 

[chickenlittle32]

Now, since I helped out some....and you get some of these project birds...can I have some??