Dun chocolate and what to breed with?

[cat22woman]

Hi all! I have this beautiful what I believe is dun chocolate frizzle satin girl and not sure which boy to put her with. I have MANY colors of boys, but not dun. The showgirl with her is a mauve cockerel, but my memory is sucktastic and I can't remember what would happen if I bred mauve with dun. I know it's not great. So, what are my best options for who to pair her with? I have a white cockerel that I'm not sure if he's from paint or what, nor do I have a clue if he is dominant or recessive white, I'm including his picture. Thanks in advance!

 

[Debbie292d]

Very pretty!

She looks more buffish or mauvish to me than chocolate, but you could try it. Chocolates are dark.

Breeding a chocolate to a mauve will give you about 50% of each, straight run.

The only way I know to find out if you have a dominant white is to breed it to a black hen and you'll get 100% paints if it is.

Here's a chocolate hen next to a chocolate roo.

 

[Frizzle and Friends]

She does look like she has a dun and chocolate gene. I believe the color is called beige. I've attached a link to an older thread that showed examples of it.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/dun-khaki-chocolate.1401931/

Crossing with the mauve cockerel would get you both male and female offspring that could be chocolate, mauve, beige, or a combo of chocolate, blue, and dun (probably very close to white).

If you just want to keep the dun and chocolate without adding blue, you could try crossing with a black or chocolate cockerel if you have one. The chocolate would give you more beige and chocolate chicks. The black would give you dun and black, but all the cockerels would be carrying chocolate.

Personally, I would avoid the white cockerel. He could be dominant white and give you a chance for dun and chocolate paints. But you have no clue what he could be carrying under the white.