Chocolate Orpingtons

[bk15]

How is that a mauve Roo just wondering I thought only hens could be a mauve??

 

[Marthab1953]

How is that a mauve Roo just wondering I thought only hens could be a mauve??

You can Breed a Chocolate Cock/Rooster with a Mauve Hen and you will get 25% Mauve Female Chicks and 25% Mauve Male chicks and 25% Chocolate Females chicks and 25% Chocolate Males Chicks.

 

[The Moonshiner]

How is that a mauve Roo just wondering I thought only hens could be a mauve??

He is both chocolate and blue which makes him mauve.
Why would you think only a hen could be mauve?

 

[The Moonshiner]

You can Breed a Chocolate Cock/Rooster  with a Mauve Hen and you will get 25% Mauve Female Chicks and 25% Mauve Male chicks and 25% Chocolate Females chicks and 25% Chocolate Males Chicks.

Or you could breed a chocolate rooster with a chocolate hen with one of the two also being splash and get 100% mauve offspring.

 

[bk15]

Oh okay thank u for ur help!

 

[Honora]

I have blue, black and splash hens and a chocolate rooster. I know the chocolate rooster with the black hens will give me sex-linked chocolate pullets and black cockerels, but what will I get with the blue and splash hens? I guess there will be mauve in there somewhere?

 

[bramblefir]

I have blue, black and splash hens and a chocolate rooster. I know the chocolate rooster with the black hens will give me sex-linked chocolate pullets and black cockerels, but what will I get with the blue and splash hens? I guess there will be mauve in there somewhere? 

Mauve is blue + chocolate. You'll get chocolate pullets from the black hen, chocolate and mauve from the blue, and mauves from the splash. Cockerels will be regular BBS, but carrying chocolate.

 

[h2oratt]

Someone sent me these. I have a difficult time comprehending it all

 

[jeremy]

I have a difficult time comprehending it all

Why?

 

[WVduckchick]

I tried to create a spreadsheet/grid when I first started with the chocolates. While we are on the subject, if someone can help me fill in a few blanks, I would greatly appreciate it.

Males down the left, females across the top, offspring produced in the mating.

And also verify that what I found was accurate: