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Will do! I'm still trying to sort out what exactly I may have on my hands at the moment. Once I know for sure, I'll know how to best approach getting some more or less solid chocolates. I should have some chocolate based cockerels for sure, but there would be other patterning going on.
My brown ones now may or may not be true chocolate. I have my suspected split roo with some black pullets now. If I get any chocolate pullets out of that mating, I'll know he's split. And then I will pair him solely with my confirmed chocolate pullet and hatch EVERY egg they lay.
If I can get them to hatch, I will likely have some spare black cockerels that will be split for chocolate by summer time. When bred to black pullets they would produce approximately 1/2 chocolate pullets, which could then be bred back to their father to produce chocolate birds in both sexes.
I'm still new to this all too, so it's a fun learning process.