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

[muffi]

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[muffi]

Puddin'

Cocoa (cranky that I interrupted her from setting on air

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[smoothmule]

Umm, I love chocolate Puddin, she's so cute

Love the color too, the solids are really hard to find. Does she have a mate? or any chicks from her?

I've hatched one similar to Cocoa but more pewter in color. No relation to Truffles, she was a full sibling to my rooster, Blu-T. I lost her last summer

 

[muffi]

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I don't have any boys with chocolate. I've got a couple different roosters that I've tried pairing with Puddin' (a mostly black one and a cocoapop-like one). The chicks from the first pairing are just starting to hatch out and so far all of Puddin's are solid black - further evidence that she is indeed sex-linked recessive chocolate. I will breed her best black son back to her to make some solid choco boys.

Then I'll have fun playing around trying to make chocolate cocoapops. It's too bad I lost my chocolate laced girl. She was the friendliest chicken I've ever had and I really wanted to breed a lot of offspring from her. I managed to hatch one little pullet from the first and only egg she ever laid.

She's just as sweet and friendly as her momma!

 

[catwalk]

I've read that chocolate Seramas may not molt as regularly as other colors, and they will keep each set or feathers for a year or more. Maybe what's going on here? Her father wasn't the molting type, and this one, well into laying, still has her baby stripes! The tail looks like it is missing a feather, but all the rest of the main tail is striped/ marbled. Could be a "new" color, or could be some serious molting issues. If I take a picture in a few months, and she has more mottles but the same stripes, I can deduce that this is her adult color. But if she has the same amount of mottling + same stripes = molting issue, right?

Edit" OR, could it be a rough partridge pattern? I have an isabel partridge Silkie hen with the same thing going on in her feathers.

 

[juliette2009]

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Her tail coloration reminds me of snakeskin, it's actually quite pretty!

 

[catwalk]

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I've seen ducks at shows with a similar pattern.

 

[muffi]

She is probably like a Golden Campine with autosomal barring only with one dose of Db-Pg, so not as well-formed. I saw another Serama like her at Lulin Serama:

 

[catwalk]

Well, look at that! Her long lost twin!

 

[Diamante]

Juliette- I love your blues and chocolates. The blue frizzles are deff the top on my wish list.


I have a duckwing colored roo but i was wondering if maybe he had any sort of chocolate genes in him. I know when he was born he was a chocolate baby. I can post picks of him at newborn, 2 months and now, if ya'll wanna take a look for me.
Lisa