Well Ken, I think the reason for this factor be because the cocopop color at this point in most breeding programs, is not breeding true.
For instance I am working on the first generation. I had a plan to breed cocopop parents back to correct color type pullets/cockerels. That way i can lock in some of the correct trates that i am searching for. unfortunetly i was set back once again, by my foundation stock being stollen, that little hen you liked the really small one with the short legged roo to the far right pen
, and my pumpkin colored roo
dissapeared several days after you saw them, sooo i do not have the parents to breed the chicks back to!!
When I breed my birds I single pen mate them, that means i have a hen to a pen by her self, and i choose a compadable roo to place with her, i rotate my roo from each hen pen while they are laying eggs, that way i know who fertalised each egg and i know exactly how each egg came from!!
When the hen gets broody i no longer bring the roo to her, that way when the chicks hatch, i can mark them and i know EXACTLY who the parents are.
My one hen was a doubble laced latte looking colored bird, when i bred her with my pumpkin roo one out of each batch had come out a beautiful chocolate brown color, I also got 25% cocopop colored chicks then an array of other colors. I wanted to keep the cocopop colored roo and breed it back to the hen seeing as she had produced cocopop with two different roosters. Most in the serama world will say they breed like A BOX OF CHOCOLATES' which for the most part they do,
If people like you are I are going to work on a Color such as cocopop it will be several generations of correct partnering and selective breeding to establish uniformity.. The serama is an amazing little birds with many possibilities when breeding them. It is up to us when we start out programs to guide our breeding prograns the best we can.
It was me that said i have a chocolate looking chick, come from the breeding i explained, I actually dont even know what color to call that chick, but she looks like a mahogany chocolate color, she is bonnie on my chick page on my websight, She is the only chick i currently have posted that is still with me, I am absaloutly thrilled with the quality of the animals that I am getting and for me although i still want correct color i want Type then color, this limits me to keeping just a few birds, LESS IS MORE!! I am sure when it comes together it will come together well.
Ken I hope this explaines why I carahamer got a chocolate looking chick!!
As for your above statements in regards to a white chick, down color changes, From that same pumpkin roo and this hen
I got one pure white pullet, and one roo that is mostly white and some carmel in her tail.
Ken i think you need to do lots of reading on the serama, both of singrids books are excellent. The cocopop color is not an easy path, it is mutch harder than developing some other color patterns.. Bashing people is not going to make you freinds.. This is a small world of the seramas, for the most part the people are honest, and love their bird. Be careful who you bash, you may step on one to many toes!! This is supposed to be fun and educational!!
