Chocolate? What makes Chocolate?

[smoothmule]

Just wanted to bump this thread up and share pics of my chocolates. I have a C sized solid chocolate hen. I thought I'd hunt for a solid black rooster and all spring, I asked and asked but nothing. I put her with my wheaten looking rooster just cause and would you know, this rooster is evidently a carrier of chocolate and the first chick is chocolate! This put me about a year ahead in my projects. I have a couple of large fowl Araucana hens that are not the largest so I'm going to use them to work on a chocolate Araucana project. The rooster is also larger but their chicks can be any size so I'll wait to see but in the meantime, since I believe my rooster is a chocolate carrier, I'm going to try him out on a couple of Araucana hens. I don't have a solid black rooster for them this year anyway so they can be my project hens till I grow out a couple of black cockerels for next years black Araucana pen.

I'm so excited, right now I just want to prove my theory that T-Roo is carrying chocolate. If he is, then breeding him to a black hen should produce some chocolates so I should know soon as I'm putting a nice hen with him this weekend. The other 3 black hens are setting eggs so I'm removing the roosters from that pen this weekend and will let these hens be without a rooster till they hatch their chicks then I'll take the chicks and put T-Roo in with them and see what I get.

Here is my solid chocolate chick out of my solid chocolate hen and T-Roo, I have a "bunch" of eggs set from this pair right now

 

[gumbii]

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yeah i noticed that every one that has chocolate OEGB they're dun... i recently got some nice dun silver duckwings and i'm going to mix them with some very typey blacks i got from another breeder... i want some solid dun birds...

 

[Reyvaughn]

I'm kind of curious how everyone's projects are going. You guys have my mind going now. And I really don't need another project, let me tell you.

 

[nicalandia]

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How about this.. I bet you will want one of them now...

somebody is Working with Beige....

its result of recessive Choc and Dun(many expert believe to be het dun others like the breeder say homo dun)

here in a normal feathered bird

here in a Silkie feathered bird..(that's the goal of breeder, Beige colored Silkies)

ready for another progect?...

 

[Reyvaughn]

I am already starting my Mille Fluer Cochin adventure, but bantam Cochins would be so adorable in chocolate... "Look at the fluffy chocolate balls in that person's yard, mom!" I think I need a chocolate Serama or two.

 

[DANNY]

Here are some of my chocolate colored dun cochin project.

 

[nicalandia]

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Now all you need is Choc to have the nice Beige color...

 

[HenThymes]

Nice looking duns Danny. Have a brown project of my own in the cochins. My group like yours growing out and just waiting to start the next round.

 

[onthespot]

Does this look like chocolate to anyone? She is a sport from my olive egger roo breeding a silkie hen that slipped past me when I was cleaning their run. LOL. I am crossing her back on a nice black silkie, hoping for a silkied, male offspring to cross back on her. I will know more then if the color is sex-linked recessive.

 

[HenThymes]

Looks like a brown color to me!