Chocolate projects?

[KYTinpusher]

Some more pictures of my chocolate project(s )


The Mocha Cockerel - I know a lot of people call it mauve, but I prefer Mocha as it describes the color better. I will be working to get full silver in the hackle saddle feathers.


The dark-hackled Chocolate Pullet. I can't decide whether I like the dark hackles or the silver hackles on this project the best


Both chocolate pullets - the dark-hackled and a silver-hackled


These 2 are both silver-hackled chocolates


Now, these were going to be culls from my project because copper hackles are not appropriate in that project, but I decided that I like the copper-hackled chocolate so much that they will be a separate project.

These girls just glow! I can't wait to see what a cockerel looks like in this coloring.

 

[nicalandia]

Some more pictures of my chocolate project(s

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The Mocha Cockerel - I know a lot of people call it mauve, but I prefer Mocha as it describes the color better. I will be working to get full silver in the hackle saddle feathers.

Is he Mauve genetically? seems too dark for it, but I love the Mocha/Gold Hackle/Saddle much better than the Silver, gold looks more natural.

 

[KYTinpusher]

Is he Mauve genetically? seems too dark for it, but I love the Mocha/Gold Hackle/Saddle much better than the Silver, gold looks more natural.

Yes, he is Mauve genetically. Dad was splash/split and mom was chocolate. He looks darker in the picture than in person. Once the sun and green grass return, I look forward to getting better pictures.

Both gold and silver are acceptable in the breed, so I may end up with both, but I really like the silver hackles on my chocolate pullets, and especially on the mocha (mauve) hen I have. (not pictured above).

 

[phasianidae]

I haven't been on here in forever, but cool to see a thread I started is still going!!

 

[NathanZee]

I haven't been on here in forever, but cool to see a thread I started is still going!!

I don't see many chocolate ducks though.

 

[CanuckBock]

Jest like Medusa...never EVER make eye contact...ever....​

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Originally Posted by NathanZee

I don't see many chocolate ducks though.

That's simply because you haven't known where to l00k....bwa ha ha...

I bin playing chocolate duck for way way too many years now...

Bibbed chocolate...whole NEW meaning to choco addictions... ​

I took three strains that were coarse, large, not very typey at all...showed chocos at the sanctioned shows before they were recognized and after...likely the first to show self-chocolates in Canada.

Sprinkles - 2006 unrecognized colour variety (chocolate) back then​

The American judge said the colour was correct and that was all I wanted to know...the type was coarse, bird is large...but the colour, that was what I wanted the nod of the head about...

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The large, coarse drake is my first bibbed chocolate drake. You can see from the widdle ones (full sized adults) I had captured the chocolate and then was working on type. Decent Call duck type.

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Henry was huge compared to the ones I created. HUGE!!!

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For us, the choco Calls are a regular old thang up here in the Great White North...

Self Chocolate, bibbed Chocolate...​

There's proof on the size...that be a pound of butter and yes, a golf ball
make a fist, that be all them Calls grow up to be



Ducks...ducks of all sorts...



Chocos of all sorts...self, bibbed, even makings of magpie chocolates



Chocolate magpie Call duckling​

Sweet, Sweet Choco Duckling....See the other one standing back saying, "Yes, EAT him...I taste bad!"


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There...NOW do you feel like you've seen chocolate ducks?

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[NathanZee]

That's simply because you haven't known where to l00k....bwa ha ha...

I bin playing chocolate duck for way way too many years now...

Bibbed chocolate...whole NEW meaning to choco addictions... ​

I took three strains that were coarse, large, not very typey at all...showed chocos at the sanctioned shows before they were recognized and after...likely the first to show self-chocolates in Canada.

Sprinkles - 2006 unrecognized colour variety (chocolate) back then​

The American judge said the colour was correct and that was all I wanted to know...the type was coarse, bird is large...but the colour, that was what I wanted the nod of the head about...

​

The large, coarse drake is my first bibbed chocolate drake. You can see from the widdle ones (full sized adults) I had captured the chocolate and then was working on type. Decent Call duck type.

​

Henry was huge compared to the ones I created. HUGE!!!

​

For us, the choco Calls are a regular old thang up here in the Great White North...

Self Chocolate, bibbed Chocolate...​

There's proof on the size...that be a pound of butter and yes, a golf ball
make a fist, that be all them Calls grow up to be



Ducks...ducks of all sorts...



Chocos of all sorts...self, bibbed, even makings of magpie chocolates



Chocolate magpie Call duckling​

Sweet, Sweet Choco Duckling....See the other one standing back saying, "Yes, EAT him...I taste bad!"


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There...NOW do you feel like you've seen chocolate ducks?

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

WOW! They are beautiful!!!

Thank you for posting all those pictures!!! Do you know, are Khaki Campbells chocolate or not?

 

[draye]

Posting to follow. Trying to figure out how to get chocolate into my flock of Naked Necks.

 

[nicalandia]

Posting to follow. Trying to figure out how to get chocolate into my flock of Naked Necks.

Sourcing the mutation(sex linked chocolate or Dun based chocolate) from an outside breed would be my best advise, a chocolate male mated to homozygous naked necks would make chocolate pullets with bowtie necks.

 

[CanuckBock]

Beware the herds of thundering WEBBERS....


L00k away...look away I say!

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Chocolate is one of the rarest colours in Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) descended ducks. The dark brown most often has the beetle green sheen on the head, neck, and back. Males have more green sheen and may have some on their butts. According to Holderread, there is another kind of chocolate which is less dark and lacks this green sheen--I don't have this kind in my Calls. Because the chocolate is based on black, juvenile white feathering faults may occur in some strains--some old chocolate ducks turn white feathered over time...recall no pigment = white, so like a dog's greying muzzle as they age--white feathers become more prolific indicating pigment is not being laid down in the keratin (protein) of the feathers. Sunlight also can fade this diluter even further. Chocolate is gender linked and recessive...it will obscure the wing speculum. If you add blue dilution to brown dilution (ah ha...why I mentioned the BOO, eh), the affect is compounding and results in a paler coloured bird. Think in terms of the Buff Orpington duck...blue AND chocolate AND buff ALL further diluting the black base. Kewl

So let's not forget to look at the other diluter in duck ducks (goose?). Buff...also gender linked. This dilutes black pigment to a medium dark brown. Yeh, I know...why call the Orpington just BUFF when it has both brown and the buff PLUS BLUE in their genetic make up...grrrr.... Lancaster played with matings of Buff Opringtons (dusky pattern with brown, buff and two blue dilutions) and Khaki Campbells in 1963.

Fresh duck eggs...all 28 days fresh ​

So uh, like yah...anyone else looking tres forward to EASTER and perhaps getting some chocolate ducks of the munching kind? Quack quack...already got two Call eggs laid yesterday...four Oz Black Swan eggs...spring, in January?? Never say never...

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada