Crossing Chocolate with Lavender Question

[oakcliffchicks]

I have a Chocolate Orpington hen and a Lavender Orpington rooster. (I also have a Lavender Orpington hen, but she isn’t important in this equation).

What would I get if I crossed the two together? Would this be desirable?

I am thinking of selling Orpington hatching eggs. So some would be pure lavender and the others would be the choc/lav mix, but I’m not sure if this would be a desirable cross.

 

[nuthatched]

Black birds according to kippenjungle.nl
They might carry some interesting genes though.

 

[JustAnotherWeirdo]

I have a Chocolate Orpington hen and a Lavender Orpington rooster. (I also have a Lavender Orpington hen, but she isn’t important in this equation).

What would I get if I crossed the two together? Would this be desirable?

I am thinking of selling Orpington hatching eggs. So some would be pure lavender and the others would be the choc/lav mix, but I’m not sure if this would be a desirable cross.

Lavender is recessive and requires 2 copies to be expressed. It dilutes black and so does chocolate, if you’re crossing lavender to anything other than lavender you get black (there’s lots of exceptions but they don’t matter here because both parents are black under the dilution genes).

Chocolate is sex-linked and dominant. Basically a rooster has 2 copies (they can have 1 but that doesn’t matter right now) and will pass the gene down to all his chicks, a hen always has only 1 copy and will only be able to pass it down to her sons. That means that when crossing the chocolate hen and lavender rooster will result in.

Lav roo x Chocolate hen

= Chocolate roosters and black hens. All split for lavender.

The chocolate roosters will be heterozygous and carry only 1 gene so only half of their chicks would be chocolate and the others black if you were to breed with them but as far as I know it shouldn’t affect how they look.

 

[chickengr]

Lavender is recessive and requires 2 copies to be expressed. It dilutes black and so does chocolate, if you’re crossing lavender to anything other than lavender you get black (there’s lots of exceptions but they don’t matter here because both parents are black under the dilution genes).

Chocolate is sex-linked and dominant. Basically a rooster has 2 copies (they can have 1 but that doesn’t matter right now) and will pass the gene down to all his chicks, a hen always has only 1 copy and will only be able to pass it down to her sons. That means that when crossing the chocolate hen and lavender rooster will result in.

Lav roo x Chocolate hen

= Chocolate roosters and black hens. All split for lavender.

The chocolate roosters will be heterozygous and carry only 1 gene so only half of their chicks would be chocolate and the others black if you were to breed with them but as far as I know it shouldn’t affect how they look.

I have chocolate muscovie ducks. not sure if it is different for ducks but chocolate gene is passed down by male.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Chocolate is sex linked but males need 2 genes for it to be expressed.
Lavender rooster over Chocolate hens will produce black chicks (could have a little leakage) males will be split for lavender and Chocolate. (Carry one gene of each) females will be split for lavender but no Chocolate gene.
For me I'd stay clear of buying those chicks. Not desirable imo.