Chocolate projects?

[fuzzybutt love]

When i get chocolate i want to try to breed the impartial lacing into the color with lav; i want a warm reddish brown with the silvery blue that would breed true. Mine are ees and i love them! So this but with the lav and choc:

 

[fuzzybutt love]

 

[smoothmule]

When i get chocolate i want to try to breed the impartial lacing into the color with lav; i want a warm reddish brown with the silvery blue that would breed true. Mine are ees and i love them! So this but with the lav and choc:

What are you calling "impartial lacing"? I've never heard of that term. You won't get lacing of any type using lavender (lavender has no lacing) and lavender plus chocolate just dilutes color on the body that would have been black, to an even paler color.

You might check into blue laced reds, they are close but more red. They at least have a lacing gene and since the lacing is blue, replacing the blue with chocolate might work. The chocolate gene does nothing to affect the red color so you need a different gene to change the red to brownish.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Impartial lacing is when they only carry half the genes for it, looks like spangling but with blue. Idk on the lacing, on the d'uccle thread there is one who is working with chocolate and her birds are patterned thus far? Unless the millies just have more stubborn pattern genes. She is doing lemon ond choc. I thought the same thing about the pattern being lost but i got in a long discussion with one of the genetic gurus on here a year ago and he seemed to think it was feasable.
it can't hurt to try!

 

[smoothmule]

First chocolate chick of this season hatched tonight. Araucana LF project. Double tufted and rumpless. I am really hoping this one is a cockerel

Still messy from hatching and poor lighting with flash so the color is "off" a bit. Still, much lighter than any chocolate I've hatched.

 

[smoothmule]

The chocolate chick fluffed up, quite a little handful I just Love the chocolate color!





Here is a young pullet from the project

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I am looking for chocolate chicks for my project. The more leaky and impure the better for my purpose! Americana or banty orpie. If you guys know anyone with project rejects? I live in mi

 

[fuzzybutt love]

My short term goal is platinum or mauve, btw. Hence the blue pattern birds. Which goes to show that though blue and chocolate both occupy black it is very possible to show both!!!

Lacing itself is not the goal. I want spangle type pattern, which these birds have. Even the boy is henny feathered!!! Lavender softens the groundcolor in porcelain; i would suppose chocolate would do the same. IF we could understand which base to start with. That is where i'm at; researching spangle/ millie/ speckled patterns. Why mutts? They are unpredictable. Muddled genetics. Longer and harder route, yes, but also possibility in their unexplained genes.

Long term i'm looking at 30 years. Pedigree is unimportant because since i'm making crosses for temperament first, type second, and color last they will all be mutts unless i successfully create a breed. Otherwise they are my personal flock.

 

[Thespoiledchicken]

I am working on getting Chocolate into my Flyties

Here is my bantam recessive Chocolate Cuckoo Orp that I have under my Fly Tie roo. Hoping I can get recessive chocolate flyties in a few generations

 

[jeremy]

Is she Chocolate Cuckoo, or just Black Cuckoo?

I ask because there's no such thing as a recessive Chocolate female Orp. If females have the gene, they will express it.

You'll need to get a Chocolate Cuckoo female for your project, or a Choc Cuckoo male.