[Deceased] Looking for possible breed or genetics

[Draconic]

So I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of what this fellow might have been? We bought five chicks off of a local breeder, all where supposed to be sexed Silver-laced chocolate orpingtons (they were not sexed lol), but one of them was this super light chick compared to the rest who were dark brown. He was a good boy, my dog unfortunately ended up getting to him a few weeks ago, and, we reached out to the same breeder we got him from, boping she had more chicks like him, but, she claims she never had any chicks that looked like him...

So I was wondering what he might have been if he wasn't what the rest were? Or what genetics might have played in his coloring, my mom really wants another lighter chicken like him, but we're having a tough time finding another. I know at the very least he was some type of orpington!

 

[nuthatched]

Muave laced silver? I think chocolate x blue(?) Can result in muave. Sorry you lost him, he was dandy.

 

[Rose the Legbar]

I believe chocolate laced birds can throw an occasional lighter laced bird but I know nothing of genetics. Maybe @NatJ will have better information.

 

[Draconic]

Muave laced silver? I think chocolate x blue(?) Can result in muave. Sorry you lost him, he was dandy.

He was, a very handsome man. That was not a good morning waking up and finding out it was him. That loss was pretty hard on both my mom and I, we both really loved that rooster

Our husky is just too dang smart, he found a way to get into the chicken yard, he didn't mean to kill him, he just really likes plucking feathers for some reason. He's killed a duck I used to have the same way, he holds them down by the neck if they struggle and he inadvertently breaks their necks or suffocates them He's had another rooster before as well, but that rooster didn't struggle, he just played dead, so he didn't need to hold it down to enjoy the pluckening. Love my dog, but he makes me so mad sometimes, because it always seems to be my pets in particular that he accidently kills. Guilty party as dog tax

 

[K2207]

He definitely looks to be a chocolate silver laced Orpington. So sorry for your loss

 

[NatJ]

We bought five chicks off of a local breeder, all where supposed to be sexed Silver-laced chocolate orpingtons (they were not sexed lol), but one of them was this super light chick compared to the rest who were dark brown.

Can you show a picture of one of the darker ones? I'm trying to figure out what details made this one seem "lighter," because I can think of at least 3 genetic mechanisms that could be involved.

 

[Draconic]

Can you show a picture of one of the darker ones? I'm trying to figure out what details made this one seem "lighter," because I can think of at least 3 genetic mechanisms that could be involved.

Yeah, the rest were all very dark, from the beginning, he was nearly a whitish color as a young chick, and he never really darkened up much compared to the other chocolates

 

[NatJ]

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Yeah, the rest were all very dark, from the beginning, he was nearly a whitish color as a young chick, and he never really darkened up much compared to the other chocolates

I think the dark ones are chocolate laced gold, and the light one is chocolate laced silver. So they all have the chocolate lacing on the edges of their feathers, but the other birds have gold in the middle of each feather while the light one has silver (white) in the middle of each feather.

You could try to buy Chocolate Laced Silver.

Or you if you can't find them, you could get a normal Silver Laced (that is black lacing on silver), breed with one of your Chocolate Laced Golds, and keep a son. The son will show black lacing on silver, but will carry the gene for chocolate lacing. Breed him to hens that have lacing (black or chocolate lacing, gold or silver ground color), and at least some daughters will have chocolate lacing on silver. With a chocolate laced hen, you can get sons with chocolate lacing as well. Sons from a silver hen will all show silver. Using a gold hen will give some sons with silver and some with gold.

If you don't care much about the breed but just want the color, you can use Silver Laced Wyandottes (which are pretty common) with the Chocolate Laced Gold Orpingtons, and two generations later you can have some Chocolate Laced Silver mixed-breeds (along with chocolate laced gold, black laced gold, and black laced silver.)