Aspen,
Can you post some photo's of your chocolate? Since Truffles is gone, I am really watching for these next chicks to hatch that are by T-Roo. I "should" see some chocolate from him if he's carrying chocolate and possibly some more solids since one of his hens is my solid black hen, Bugsy. I have a couple of decent looking black pullets by T-Roo and one of them is Truffles baby. She doesn't have a chocolate gene but she's got nice type and more swarthy legs than black.
I have been wanting a black cockerel and I have at least 2 now. The older one is already showing red leakage but the other one that is just days younger is staying solid black so far.
My 2 blues are different, one is darker and laced and the other is light blue but they're still chicks so I'm anxious to see them all in mature feathering, especially some of T's chicks that were patterned that might be chocolate but I can't see it yet for all the patterning on the juvenile feathers.
I'd love to see some photo's of chocolate chicks that are not solid. Photo's from the fist down photo's to the juvenile feathers and the final color. Anyone got some? If not, chocolate breeders should be taking pics of their chicks to share here for us all to learn from. Any new chocolate chicks hatched lately? Blues? Dun?