Is there a type of chicken called chcoalte

[ezekielSM]

WOW. Those colors are amazing. I've never seen a chocolate color but that's definitely milk chocolatey.

Very lovely!! They're almost bronze-like. Now if feathering could have an iridescent golden sheen- that would be a thing of beauty.

 

[Henk69]

Beige is very doubtful.
How can this color be darker than khaki while it is khaki plus added sexlinked chocolate (extra dilution).
I think they might be het dun plus sexlinked choc.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Can dilutions work against each other? The blue and splash lavender birds I've seen are usually not as diluted as lavender without blue.

 

[nicalandia]

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I believe this(Beige) is the case...

 

[The Breaker]

I purchased 9 little bantams from a locale poultry farmer and he said that one was a pure bred chocalate is this a real bred?

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

I never heard of one, but that doesn't mean there isn't. But I always thought chocolate was a color, not a breed.

 

[kinsey228]

Maybe he meant Marans. They lay "chocolate" colored eggs.

 

[Illia]

Though I've go soo little say in this, I would agree with Henk69. That bird is indeed gorgeous, but doesn't look like a homozygous dun AND chocolate.



Oh, and for those curious - Chocolate Polish are dun. It's the Serama that does indeed have the true sex-linked chocolate gene in the US.

 

[nicalandia]

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you would think Lav plus Blue(Bl) would give you a Near white bird...But that's not the case... clearly something is messing with the expression of the genes...

 

[Henk69]

In the "Beige" experiment the breeder can not pinpoint the genotype of his animals. He makes assumptions that may not be valid.
Only elaborate testbreeding could confirm the beige genotype.

Ditto on lavender plus blue and/or splash.