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[OHhappychicks]

this is a hen

Oh! I love her! And these are bantams?

 

[minihorse927]

Well, They are sure beautiful. Maybe when you have some to sell, keep me on your list. I'm just a collector of sort! I just love having a couple of each breed that I like in my flock. They make it so interesting! I will just have to watch and make sure it doesn't become overwhelming. I already told dh I would like to get everything we need so we could just enjoy our chickens. It seems like this year all we have been doing is moving, building, or something with the flock. And we still don't have everything. I would like to have a couple of places for breeding pens, a brooder house, water run out to the coops, just everything convenient. My dear dh usually is the one filling the waterers and feeding. I just want to get it so it is easier to do. So adding more to our flock is more work for him. Going to try to rein myself in!! But their are sooo many breeds that I would like to have.

And these are on my list. I'm like a kid in a candy shop!!!

These guys are money earners too. They sell for $20-$75 a chick depending on quality of the parents. They are good sized bantams too. They lay close to a medium sized egg. The wyandottes do too. They are by far the only bantam other than my d'uccle that gets to stay.

 

[OHhappychicks]

These guys are money earners too. They sell for $20-$75 a chick depending on quality of the parents. They are good sized bantams too. They lay close to a medium sized egg. The wyandottes do too. They are by far the only bantam other than my d'uccle that gets to stay.

Wow! I never new chickens sold for so much!! I've only had porcelain bantams. They have always been sweet gentle things. I really like the hens round and fluffy. These are just what I like to see in a hen. I will have to start a chicken wish list fund!!

 

[loveourbirds]

i keep looking for hatching eggs because i dont want to pay the price for these http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/ayam-cemani/

ill have brussbars for sale in 2015 with chicks starting at $500.00 each (some offers will be made on chicks in 2014, but its an investment risk). well, if everything goes right i will

. price of chickens depends on age/quality/rarity. something like a chocolate wynadotte has a muting gene, if you breed 2 chocolates together, you will get mostly sports and only 25% chocolate. (breed sports to black for 100% chocolate). because of constantly adding in black color, its hard to improve the quality of them.

several of our newer colorations are that way, they are more for hobby breeding and show breeding than for your typical egg laying flock. some of these to watch for are blue, fawn, chocolate, and lemon cuckoo colorations. any of these colors will bring top dollar in their breeds. also since im on the subject, there has been fertility trouble in jubilie orpingtons so buy with caution.

 

[chickenboy190]

Welcome to the thread!!

Thanks.

Oh I see. Welcome .

Thanks also.

 

[minihorse927]

i keep looking for hatching eggs because i dont want to pay the price for these http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/ayam-cemani/ ill have brussbars for sale in 2015 with chicks starting at $500.00 each (some offers will be made on chicks in 2014, but its an investment risk). well, if everything goes right i will

. price of chickens depends on age/quality/rarity. something like a chocolate wynadotte has a muting gene, if you breed 2 chocolates together, you will get mostly sports and only 25% chocolate. (breed sports to black for 100% chocolate). because of constantly adding in black color, its hard to improve the quality of them. several of our newer colorations are that way, they are more for hobby breeding and show breeding than for your typical egg laying flock. some of these to watch for are blue, fawn, chocolate, and lemon cuckoo colorations. any of these colors will bring top dollar in their breeds. also since im on the subject, there has been fertility trouble in jubilie orpingtons so buy with caution.

The Foley chocolates breed true chocolate to chocolate. These are not Dunn based birds.

 

[minihorse927]

as much as I dislike Guineas...my new additions

 

[loveourbirds]

The Foley chocolates breed true chocolate to chocolate. These are not Dunn based birds.

Chocolate Wyandotte Bantams

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The mouth watering Chocolate’s are a relatively new color to the Wyandotte Bantams in the US. In 2005 Richard Davies of the UK created the chocolate Wyandotte Bantam. In 2011 Jerry Foley, of Foley’s Water Fowl created the Chocolate Wyandotte line in the US using the same principle as the UK. Foley's used imported UK Chocolate Orpingtons on the Art Lundgren line of Black Wyandottes. A nice Wyandotte type with the luscious chocolate color was born and will be the center stone in future years for breeders diving in to diversify the color pool of Wyandottes.
Chocolate Wyandottes are sex-linked recessive, meaning if you breed a Chocolate male to a black female you will get all split black males and all chocolate females.
Black males that carry the chocolate gene are called 'Split.’ Using black wyandottes in your breeding pen with the chocolates is useful to improve the darkness of the chocolate and to improve type if needed.
Chocolate Wyandottes breed true. The following is a list of the combinations that may be used in breeding and the results you will get:
Chocolate Male X Chocolate Female = 100% Chocolate
Chocolate Male X Black Female = 50% Black Males carrying (split male) Chocolate, 50% Chocolate Females
Black Male X Chocolate Female = 50% Black Males carrying (split male) Chocolate, 50% Black Female
Split Male X Chocolate Female = 25% Chocolate Males, 25% Black Males carrying (split male) Chocolate, 25% Chocolate Females, 25% Black Females
Split Male X Black Female = 25% Black Males carrying (split male) Chocolate, 25% Black Males, 25% Chocolate Females, 25% Black Females.
(link to full website: http://www.chickenhillpoultry.com/chocolate )


you eventually still need to add in a black wyandotte due to lightness in color. true dun by my research causes "fawn" and not "chocolate" but the chocolate gene is based on the dun gene. of course i have only researched this on OEGB's and wyandottes could be different.

 

[loveourbirds]

you are right though, i thought they muted out faster than they do.

 

[minihorse927]

you are right though, i thought they muted out faster than they do.

Ypu are right about adding black birds back in every couple generations to keep the color right. Plus I've heard the chocolate messes with the quality of the feathers similiar to lavender, just not as bad. Chocolates are a definite work in progress and something I'm willing to drop time and money into to improve. The orps have the same problems. They tend to lighten the more generations you go with them. I believe it's possible to improve them it is just going to take time. The information is great though especially for people who haven't researched the chocolate genes and birds yet. Plus I know I have to look back at the color table to figure out what produces what chocolate and splits.