Post Your Chocolates, Dun ,Khaki , Platinum Bird Pics

[Reyvaughn]

I don't have any new pictures of my Chocolate bantam Orps. I am a little disappointed that I bought 5 "straight run" and got 5 boys so pics are coming slow. They are 7wks now and so slow to feather in, too!

Here they are when I got them:


They were the start to my chocolate bantam Cochin project... Sadly, I have all black/black mottled bantam Cochin cockerels, so my project has been set back another year. Days like these I want to throw in the towel because I waited 9 months to get my chocolates to begin with. Really? 5 of 5 being boys? Why?

 

[smoothmule]

You don't know how lucky you are Reyvaughn, It's the chocolate cockerels that you need to start up a chocolate project! The black Cochin pullets will be far easier to find and start with

 

[jeremy]

Yup, you've now got 5 cockerels to set up 5 different pens with!

 

[Meara]

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She could be a khaki polish hen.

Huh, I hadn't considered that. I thought she was too dark to be khaki. I guess there is a lot of variation?

 

[Reyvaughn]

>< I keep hatching boys and no girls! I need to find someone else with black bantam Cochins and set about 40 at once. I would have liked 2 girls... I would have liked to of bred a couple more Chocolate Orps along with the Cochins. Oh well.

 

[smoothmule]

Does this cockerel look dun? I don't have any background on his parentage

 

[DANNY]

Here is one of my Dun Cochin project.

 

[hoppy]

beautiful coloring, wow.

I have a question and I can't photograph it (tried, didn't show up)
I have a blue orp hen bred to a lav orp, produced what appears to be super dark brown. the hen came from tony's chocolates.
side by side with black , it s noticable that it's not the same, like a bit diluted. could that be dark chocolate? I took a pic of it next to a black and the whole flash etc. made it useless to show it's not the same color to the eye.

Here is one of my Dun Cochin project.

 

[Meara]

I have a question and I can't photograph it (tried, didn't show up)
I have a blue orp hen bred to a lav orp, produced what appears to be super dark brown. the hen came from tony's chocolates.
side by side with black , it s noticable that it's not the same, like a bit diluted. could that be dark chocolate? I took a pic of it next to a black and the whole flash etc. made it useless to show it's not the same color to the eye.

If the hen were carrying sex-linked choc then she would appear chocolate instead of blue. Is it possible that she is dun? Dun can result in coloring that looks blue or chocolate depending on modifiers.

 

[jeremy]

beautiful coloring, wow.

I have a question and I can't photograph it (tried, didn't show up)
I have a blue orp hen bred to a lav orp, produced what appears to be super dark brown. the hen came from tony's chocolates.
side by side with black , it s noticable that it's not the same, like a bit diluted. could that be dark chocolate? I took a pic of it next to a black and the whole flash etc. made it useless to show it's not the same color to the eye.

If the hen were carrying sex-linked choc then she would appear chocolate instead of blue. Is it possible that she is dun? Dun can result in coloring that looks blue or chocolate depending on modifiers.

I'm pretty sure the "Chocolates" that Tony was/is producing are actually Dun birds, not true sex linked Chocolate. I'm betting your girl is a Dark dun hen. The way to figure it out would be to breed her to a Black rooster, if she is Dun 50% of her offspring will be Dun and the other 50% will be Black.