Chocolate Orpington Project

[greenfamilyfarms]

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you can import birds?

I wish it was that easy! You can't import eggs or birds into or out of the US anymore. It's some of the precautions that are being taken for biosecurity.

 

[Chris09]

What about a Blue and a Buff cross?
Useing the genetic calculator it shows you get some Dun and some Khaki... You might be able to work off that...

Chris

 

[americana-chick]

someone on BYC is doing a chocolate orp project.. i am not sure who but do some research and i am sure you will find em!
Maybe you could do something like...
Buff orpington rooster x some type of darker hen with a single comb...?

 

[Krys109uk]

What about a Blue and a Buff cross?

Wouldn't work. You'd need either the sex linked recessive gene 'choc' or the dun gene I^D, blues &/or buffs do not carry either.​

 

[Henk69]

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Wouldn't work. You'd need either the sex linked recessive gene 'choc' or the dun gene I^D, blues &/or buffs do not carry either.

Agree with Krys, however sometimes the dun gene is used to hide black feathers in buff breeds. I for one isolated the dun gene from buff rosecombs.
Also see the "about buff" remark-hyperlink in the calculator.

 

[Krys109uk]

however sometimes the dun gene is used to hide black feathers in buff breeds. I for one isolated the dun gene from buff rosecombs.

Wow that's interesting.

I've only found dominant white in buff orps.....it would be soooo nice to find dun in there.

 

[tadkerson]

Do not know if I am repeating information, so excuse me if I do.

You can create chocolate by using the dunn gene with gold. You would have to breed the birds so that each bird had one dunn gene and the bird carries one (female) or two (male) gold genes. The birds would also need to carry "autosomal red" and a gold modifier (may be mahogany) which would be found in a red bird.

This is the chocolate polish phenotype.

You need to find some red orpingtons (or make them from buff) and a bird that carries the dun gene. I would suggest using bantams. Ideal has a chocolate and fawn oegb that carry the dunn gene.

You could artificially inseminate a large fowl, in order to get the dun gene in large fowl.

Tim

 

[Krys109uk]

Thanks Tim,
That's useful information. And I've got red almost Orpingtons.