Quote: I better start feeding him meal worms and making friends quick! Before he get that big.... WOW 10lbs or more?The other one barring is about the same so I am pretty sure it is a roo, I wanted 2 for backup. Thanks!
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Quote: I better start feeding him meal worms and making friends quick! Before he get that big.... WOW 10lbs or more?The other one barring is about the same so I am pretty sure it is a roo, I wanted 2 for backup. Thanks!
That's why I named him 'Chuckles" .....stanThat picture just cracks me up.
Is there such thing as chocolate Plymouth rock?
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When is his release date from the joint? He looks like those fellows in the movie: Oh Brother, Where Art thou?
No sense crossing something that does not have strong type to make a new color......especially crossing breeds.Easiest route to choc rock would prolly be to grab a choc orp roo and have him cover bbs hens, and go for it. Be fixing type for a good long time, but there are good clean choc genes in orp here now.
And it would be a fun project. Me, I just loved my bbs rocks. They needed enough type work w/o adding orp lol. But wow great birds.
Hey Walt... Yeah but nobody has chocolate in rocks. It's occurrence in blacks is nearly impossible odds. The only way to get it is to introduce ir from another breed where it is cleanly established, correct? That was after all, the question asked. How to get it.
Unless you want to own a thousand blacks and hope for god intervention. The only way to do it is to outcross to get the gene then fix type.
Other than finding one freak of nature... It's the only reliable way.
Yes, I said my bbs birds needed type improvement eight years ago the pool of high quality bbs lf rocks was quite small. They were what was available. There is no fault in working up from lesser type to better.
Not everyone gets to start with SQ type. People who branch out into rare colors usually do start with lesser quality stock in trying to develop colors that didn't occur except as faults in the breed, prior to sufficient interest to develop them to show standard and accepted status.
Caring enough to work a rare color to acceptance or develop a color isn't wrong, it's just hard but that wasn't the question. It's not simple because you create mutts and lblow the standard for generations, but aye. Can be done.
Then they're chocolate colored mutts until you restablish type. Be pretty though.