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

[CrazyFowlFreak]

What color is this baby, please? It's four to five weeks old and is the loudest chicken I've ever had!

 

[CrazyFowlFreak]

Here are better pics of this little rascal.

 

[Henk69]

It is also the blackest chocolate if it is one...

Sorry.

 

[muffi]

I know chocolate doesn't always come through well in photos. The thing is, if it is chocolate, any area that looks black (like on the wing feathers) would have to look chocolate. If you have a black chick to compare to, you can check to see if there is a difference in shade. Otherwise, if black looks black, it is not chocolate.

 

[juliette2009]

Just taking a stab here, but if I had to guess, my guess would be what is called 'melanized black'.

 

[juliette2009]

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Lisa-

I'd love to see pics, but without knowing your roo's lineage, just going by pictures would only be a guess. The only way to tell for certain would be to breed him to a black hen and see if the resulting pullets are chocolate. Test breeding is the only way to know for sure...

 

[muffi]

A chick being brown may just be indicative of it being an eb or "genetically brown" bird, not necessarily a chocolate.

eb chick


But by all means post pictures. We love pictures!

edited to add source link to photo

 

[CrazyFowlFreak]

Muffi- that's the color he looked as a chick and what his color looks like now. The wings are a shiny dark chocolate color and the rest is a milk chocolate color, except for the lighter patch at his throat. I have an old camera and just can't capture the true brown color. So, brown is what we'll call him/her, then!

Thanks everyone

 

[muffi]

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Well, even an eb-based chicken will normally have black in it to go along with the brown. If your chick is actually dark chocolate where it appears to be black in the photo, then it may indeed have the chocolate gene too. All chocolate really means as a gene is wherever black would normally be, change it to chocolate.

Do you have a chick with black that you could photograph beside the chick in question?

 

[CrazyFowlFreak]

I don't, no, I wish I did. All I have are red cochin chicks

It doesn't really matter much to me what color it is, just was curious. I hope it's a girl so I can keep her, that's my main concern right now as I have two frizzle Serama roos and only the one smooth Serama hen.