Muffi,
I am soo so sorry
I know how you feel and wish I could help. I may start a thread just for solid chocolate Serama breeders so we can work together on this project but I'm going to wait until I have mine laying and hatching. I love taking photo's and it's so nice to have them even as a reference later on for showing what your chicks came from. I think it's very important for documenting where you start and how your progressing too so please take some periodically even if you don't share them all here, you'll have them.
Just wondering now, who else is working on the solid chocolate color? I know Jerry has them, lots of them. The biggest issue at this point isn't making solid chocolates, it's getting the red out of the hackles on the roosters. We need to get that figured out and we might be able to get this variety APA and ABA approved since it's really easy to breed for the color, well easy to get 100% chocolate of some sort with chocolate to chocolate breeding. Do you just have the one pullet now?
At this time, I have my rooster that is a chocolate carrier. I have one solid black hen with him and 2 solid black pullets that will be laying soon I hope. The chicks from Truffles are the 1 cockerel with red in the hackles, 1 pullet with mottling, 1 pullet solid, 1 pullet with red in the neck hackles. I also have one from T-Roo's brother that looks dun but I was told by a breeder that she may also be chocolate but with blue. Since my roosters are full siblings, it's possible that Blu also carries but he's also got a blue gene so they're lighter. I am hoping to hatch more chocolate this winter. They're moulting now and not laying so I'm setting every individual egg I get. I can manage single chicks if needed.
I'm also still planning to buy a very good black cockerel and or hen for an all black pen but they will also be used with the chocolates. I know I'll have some chocolates with pattern as well and I'll most likely sell those to keep the numbers down here and so I can afford to buy more chocolate and black as I need them.
Hang in there, we all have had our tragedies but we'll get there.