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not avoiding at all cara just havent taken the pics of the hen I will post them and joey good for you on the win they are nice birds I give you that but you know that I always say they are a little on the big size not what I like but glad you won its ok cause I have the same bloodline as you do but I chose not to breed them cause of their size leg color and so on and if this is what kate and amy score your bird to win at the First Show then let it be but their will be better birds send in your birds to the CC cause thats where I will be next year bro I dont care for the SoCal show too little and small amount of birds at the CC thats where true champ will be. Cocoapop line is a champion bloodline time and time again.
leg coloration and size is only a fraction of the total score... i'm sure that you know that they are judged and ranked in points... maybe legs is only 10 points, and joey's birds are perfect everywhere else... score a high 90 out of 100 points possible... also... you can have a gorgeous cocopop roo competing, and if a gorgeous white typey roo comes along, your colorful bird won't equal up to it at all...
just saying...
cocopop is just a random color that one chicken had... it's not a true color... seramas should be more about type than anything else...
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hi kate... ♥
but remember that a lot of different malay chickens breed true... including shamo... i'm working on a silver laced red shamo... i know it's gonna take me years, but it's a realistic goal... that said, a cocopop pair to breed true is very possible... like i said before, you just have to isolate the genes... the only problem would be to work on type later on... but i'm glad some enthusiast here are grouping together to take on the impossible... but like i said, the genes are in the birds already... now it's time for selective breeding, and line breeding on a huge scale to get it done... then worry about type... LOL...
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just because the parents were one color morph, does NOT mean that it will be split for the colors... if one parent is split for lavender, and the other one is split for dun, only 20% will be split for lavender 20% dun 50% both and 10% or more will be split for nothing... again, there is more to genetics than you know... such as in line breeding, you never know which offspring will produce what you want... that's why it takes years to make a color breed true... YEARS!!!... it's not like, put it in the microwave face up and push [popcorn]... no sir... do you think it took a couple of weeks to make a chicken look like they do now from how wild jungle fowl look...?
no...
well put bro It can and will breed true gumbii just breeders that will say no only time will tell us but so far I like what im seeing now in my line ......
but you told me that out of all of the chicks you hatch, and you had there... only one will be cocopop... i think i remember you saying, out of ten, one will be cocopop... but unless it's dun laced chocolate, melanized blah blah blah... it's not really a cocopop... it's just going to be a chocolate... so out of 10 of your chicks, only one will be chocolate...?????
hmmm...
so, no... your chicks are not split for cocopop or anything else but chocolate really... and since you can't get a 100% chocolate hatch, it's not going to happen anytime soon... chocolate is like self blue/lavender... so if you're only getting 10% chocolate, then maybe the hen is split for chocolate tail, or maybe 22% split for chocolate... so what hen are you using..? that dun partridge that was there...? because that one was not chocolate at all...