Chocolate Orpingtons

[mastiffsinky]

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We must be looking at different pictures....doesn't look anything like a polish to me!

I meant the color looks just like a tolbunt Polish, in other words a golden laced that is mottled.

 

[AllChookUp]

mastiffsinky/Katie - I am VERY interested in your Chocolate Orpington project. Please add me to your ever-expanding list.
Thank you!

Ron

 

[Katy]

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We must be looking at different pictures....doesn't look anything like a polish to me!

I meant the color looks just like a tolbunt Polish, in other words a golden laced that is mottled.

The name of the color/pattern is Mille Fleur.

 

[KKluckers]

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She mentioned Sandhill Preservation had ressesive Chocolate Wyanndottes.

Just what was posted in the hatching eggs section. I dont know myself.

 

[texaschickmama]

ME ME ME.... I would definately want some of the large fowl. I'm not much on bantams.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Hmm, I always thought sandhills chocolate wyandottes were like duns, it will be interesting to see chocolate orps in the US.

 

[roosmom]

Will they smell and taste like chocolate? Maybe then I can have caramel and chocolate together

 

[mastiffsinky]

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I am waiting for confirmation on this, when I asked last year on them, I was told they bred 100% chocolates when bred together. However I met someone yesterday who got some from her and they were dun. Of course Dun still looks chocolate, you just will get blacks and khakis out of the breeding. I will be trying to import ther recessive chocolates via hatching eggs next year. however the European people are very particular as to who gets their birds, and I have to find those that are willing to ship to the us as there is a bunch of things that have to be done before hand to do it. Many will not want to be incovienced. Of course then there is the possibility that none will hatch.

I am also thinking of importing 3 or 4 full grown birds, the problem there is they are in quarentine for 30 days before I can get them, and of course the cost, which can cost up to $1000 per bird.

So what I can guarentee is this, the Dun chocolate orps will be here (as well as Khaki) before the recessive ones. Both look the same, just you get different results when breeding.

I have 3 or 4 leads here in the US to possible recessive chocolate lines, as I find out I will let you know. Several i have talked to thought they had recessive chocolate, only to end up with the dun chocolates.

Katie

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

The dun will be much much faster. I know that a few breeders made their own lines of dun wyandottes by using chocolate OEGB and crossing them to blacks. Luckly with blacks they are pretty popular so they normally have good type. With the dun orps you could get there pretty quick if you started with wyandottes because they are somewhat similar in type and leg color.
I like the chocolates more than the duns because their color is consistant. When we had solid dun wyandottes the color varied quite a bit. Some looked more blue, some looked more brown, and others were inbetween. Even with the dun laced birds they vary a bit and from a khaki x black mating the resulting duns can vary from very light to very dark.

 

[KKluckers]

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Dont Wyandottes have yellow skin? The Orpington per standard is suppose to have white.