Chocolate Serama Breeders - dun and blue can be included here as well

[smoothmule]

I offered hatching eggs (Serama) to benefit the Cajun Classic 2012 and there will be a lot of eggs from my chocolates there. There's just a few hours left to bid and I increased the number offered to 24+.


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=606010

 

[BBrock]

Has anyone breed chocolate and chocolate and gotten 100% choc chicks

 

[Smokin Silkies]

chocolate + chocolate = chocolate...unless its "dun" based and not true chocolate

 

[BBrock]

I know choc + choc = choc but does anybody have 100 % choc hatching.

 

[juliette2009]

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My choc/split x chocolate gives me 3 out of four chocolate...I currently have a couple eggs in the incubator from choc x choc breeding, so I'm curious to see what happens! My progress has been slow, since I'm breeding chocolate frizzles with smooths, and that plus the sex-linked factor has been very frustrating!

 

[muffi]

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My choc/split x chocolate gives me 3 out of four chocolate...I currently have a couple eggs in the incubator from choc x choc breeding, so I'm curious to see what happens! My progress has been slow, since I'm breeding chocolate frizzles with smooths, and that plus the sex-linked factor has been very frustrating!

That is interesting if true that you get 3 out of 4 choc. I am getting half choc out of my choc split male over choc females, which is what one would expect with sex-linked recessive choc.

 

[juliette2009]

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My choc/split x chocolate gives me 3 out of four chocolate...I currently have a couple eggs in the incubator from choc x choc breeding, so I'm curious to see what happens! My progress has been slow, since I'm breeding chocolate frizzles with smooths, and that plus the sex-linked factor has been very frustrating!

That is interesting if true that you get 3 out of 4 choc. I am getting half choc out of my choc split male over choc females, which is what one would expect with sex-linked recessive choc.

I think the problem arises because the seramas still have hidden color genes, especially if they're split or not solid chocolate. Out of Rolo x The Triplets (choc/split x choc), I got, from my August hatch, solid chocolate and mottled chocolate females, plus 2 males...one boy was Odo, a mottled chocolate frizzle (rumpless), and one boy was a black frizzled silkied...All of this group carries the recessive silkied gene. I think it will take several generations of choc x choc for seramas to actually breed true, just as with the whites and the blacks. Who knows, the ratio from this group may be completely different in the upcoming hatch.

It has been my experience, albeit rather limited, that seramas do not follow the usual color genetic "rules" just yet!

Rolo and the Triplets

Odo

I have only a couple of eggs in the incubator from a choc x choc pairing, Snickerdoodle x Abby...I am very curious to see what they produce!

Snickerdoodle

Abby

 

[ruthless]

Juliette, I knew I had seen one of your current birds that looked very similar to my Captain Crunch ( who was hatched by you).... it was Snickerdoodle. Below is the Captain!

 

[juliette2009]

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A pretty, pretty bird!!!

 

[muffi]

I am just starting to hatch second generation chocolates. First generation of a chocolate-carrying male over various chocolate-colored females gave only blacks and chocolates. But now this little guy has popped up in the second generation. I think it is a khaki (aka dun splash), proving that I have dun in the mix. I'm pretty sure I know the culprit female, as she is the only silver-based foundation parent I have and this chick appears to be silver khaki.

Suspected grandmother of above chick, believe to be dun not chocolate:

What really stinks is I was too ill this year to keep track of all my first generation chicks' parentage. So it will be fun trying to sort out who is chocolate and who is dun. Ugh. Well, at least now we know that dun is for sure found in the Serama. Unless someone has a better explanation for this chick's color.

I will do some test mating of the believed dun father of the khaki chick to some black hens in a few months. I am turning my incubator off after Xmas, after 1 year of non-stop hatching and taking a much needed break! Haha!