My head hurts! Breeding Mauve Orpingtons

[tnmommy]

I have blue Orpingtons in the brooder, hoping to breed the blue into my Australorps. So...along the way I discovered mauve Orpingtons. As I have researched, the only way to ensure 100% mauve pullet and 50% cockerel offspring is to breed a splash/split to chocolate rooster over a pure chocolate hen.

Where I'm lost is how to get a splash split to chocolate rooster. Would I need to breed a splash rooster over a pure chocolate hen? I found a young splash cockerel for sale and I just wanted to make sure that is the genetics I'm looking for.

 

[Abqorps1]

I use a Chocolate Roo over Blue and Splash hens to produce my Mauves, this is one of my favorite grow-outs (hatched summer 2015)... She will enter our breeding program this coming spring.

 

[big medicine]

I've got nothing to add to the discussion really, as any genetic knowledge I may have is pretty much limited to what I needed to learn for my various projects, none of which involved chocolate, or any of it's derivatives. I was mostly just reading along to pick up what I could.

But one thing I might add for some of the posters here. If you are going to get into breeding to this degree, it would benefit you to learn the terminology. If you ever have opportunity to talk to an old time, or experienced breeder and his/her eyes just kinda glass over, and they suddenly have more pressing things to tend to, more than likely it was something you said. Not trying to be a smart arse here, but .....

 

[nicalandia]

Platinum Blue Sumatra

 

[Christabelle]

Chocolate rooster over splash hen = 100% mauve pullets (Roos be blue). I don't know that you could get a splash split choc roo, not that many people are making mauve. They have some mauve Orp chicks on rare-breeds, and I have some too. My mauve are all pullets though.

Oh- and a splash cockerel over a chocolate hen will give you blue split for chocolate roosters and blue hens.

 

[mjgigax]

One of my Mauve girls

 

[The Moonshiner]

Anyone figured out how to get a mauve rooster?

Chocolate rooster x chocolate + blue hen = 1/2 cockerels mauve
Chocolate + blue rooster x chocolate hen = 1/2 cockerels mauve
Chocolate rooster x chocolate + splash hen = all cockerels mauve
Chocolate + splash x chocolate hen = all cockerels mauve
Chocolate + blue rooster x chocolate + blue hen = 1/2 cockerels mauve
Chocolate + blue rooster x chocolate + splash hen = 1/2 cockerels mauve
Chocolate + splash rooster x chocolate + blue hen = 1/2 cockerles mauve

You can use a black split to chocolate rooster in place of all the above roosters but then 1/2 of the cockerels will be black instead of chocolate so in theory only half of the above percentages would be mauve.

 

[JKYoung]

Anyone figured out how to get a mauve rooster?

Chocolate Male x Mauve Female= 25% Mauve Females, 25% Chocolate Females, 25% Blue Males(Split) and 25% Mauve Males


I think this is about right but I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. this is all based on sex linked Chocolate not Dun.

 

[LilyD]

For reference this is my blue hen

 

[The Moonshiner]

Does anyone know of a mauve breeding chart?

I have one in my head.