Chocolate Orpingtons

[Marthab1953]

Would I get visual 50% male, what color, and 50% female, what color?

You should get
Chocolate Rooster x Blue Hen=50% Blue Split Chocolate Males and 50% Mauve Females and 50% Black Split Chocolate Males and 50% Chocolate Females

 

[Abqorps1]

Spring chicks are beginning to arrive and shipping is going well! This group of Chocolate & BBS just arrive safely in their new home in Dallas, TX...

https://www.facebook.com/abqorpingtons

 

[rom1136]

I wouldn't breed to Lavender...

Just curious why you say this? I of course just did this and now you got me wondering...

 

[rom1136]

Here are a few pics of my chocs. Mom,dad, and a 8wk cockrel

 

[rom1136]

If anyone is around Rock Hill Sc, are incubator is full and we have some 8 wk old birds available as well as a 7mo old rooster.

 

[Flybybirds]

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like a good match. Now to find a really nice blue hen in Florida.

 

[mjgigax]

I wouldn't breed to Lavender...

But Chocolate X Blue will yield Mauve, which I think is a lovely color.

My Avitar is on of my Mauve hens. I love them. I bred them to my Double Barred Chocolate boy and have some Cuckoo Mauve chicks. They are 4 to 6 weeks old now. I will post pictures when they get a little bigger.
I have two Mauve pullets and one hen. The hen molted this past Fall and he feathering came back with a lot of shade variation. I imagine that happened because of her Blue genes.

 

[Junibutt]

My Avitar is on of my Mauve hens. I love them. I bred them to my Double Barred Chocolate boy and have some Cuckoo Mauve chicks. They are 4 to 6 weeks old now. I will post pictures when they get a little bigger.
I have two Mauve pullets and one hen. The hen molted this past Fall and he feathering came back with a lot of shade variation. I imagine that happened because of her Blue genes.

Would love to see pics of your mauve cuckoo chicks as they grow. Please tag me when you post pics.

 

[opossum04]

Anyone out there working on Chocolate Spangled birds?

 

[Junibutt]

Anyone out there working on Chocolate Spangled birds?

I have just started with a Choc-Cuckoo rooster (or possibly a mauve rooster, she has been with both) and a black mottled hen. Hatch 2 chicks, 1 is obviously a black split to mottled boy and the other is either mauve and choc split to mottled. In either case its a pullet.

The roosters and pullet are from different lines so I feel comfortable doing a brother and sister cross. to get some chocolates or will have to get a black mottled rooster from somewhere to cross with the pullet. Of course will hatch some more to get a good type.

Any suggestions?

Here is a picture of the mauve/choc pullet



and the black boy