Thank you for your quick reply his father was the English Chocolate/Black fellow and mom was American black. I will look closer tomorrow at the color of the hackles I just always though it was an iridescent blue. And yes a sunburst color neck would be an accurate description. I had looked and looked for a "color" that he matches and couldn't find anything. Thank you againA chocolate orp is...well uh chocolate. Woman DO like their [COLOR=8B4513]chocolates[/COLOR]...
http://poultrykeeper.com/chicken-breeds/the-chocolate-orpington
Tim Daniels gives a nice summary on breeding outcomes for chocolates which are gender linked in chickens and ducks.
What genders were the colours for this male's parents?
A Black male is the only bird that may be BLACK but carry chocolate...and therefore produce chocolate offspring when he himself is not a chocolate. in the union.
I find your term:
confusing if this is not the Father.
Your male, to me, does not look particularly chocolate in the respect of what I have seen as chocolate in chickens...they are, well for the most part...just chocolate with maybe a touch of beetle green sheen perhaps.
Maybe someone else may assist and say what your male appears to be.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Orps/BRKOrps.html
I just scrolled thru FS and did not see anything that really looks like your male.
I am going to go crack open my Grant 21st Century colour book...he had Clive's choco genetics to play with and maybe I can find a match to yours...
Your bird IS pretty, kinda a sunset burst type colouration on the hackle and saddle...very nice. His tail feathers and hackles, to me in the photo, look more beetle [COLOR=008000]green[/COLOR] than [COLOR=0000FF]blue[/COLOR]...but could be the configurations on my monitor or me looking at the top of his hackles...the sides look to be a different colour than black in any shade.
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Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada