Post Your Chocolates, Dun ,Khaki , Platinum Bird Pics

[hoppy]

thanks, I have black and I have more of this color. i probably will go with this color back to itself and avoid the "black box". i think it's a very pretty color even if it not khaki/dun. I do have sigrids first book, but not much is written about paints in it- should i be looking under another color (champagne)?

This colouring is very common in paints, and can occur (usually in a much lesser extent) in dominant white birds as well. I call it champagne. Genetically it is not khaki (I^D/I^D). I have produced a very few dun paints (dun spots on a white background), and if I can ever get them to maturity without stupid mishaps (horse stepped on the first, heat got the second and pool got the third), I will be following some breeding advice that should shed some light on paint.

If you are wanting to produce non-spotted birds of this colour, breed to black or together, selecting for the birds with the least spoting, rather than for birds with the most spotting, as paint breeders are doing.

There is some thought that this colouring requires that a bird be gold rather than silver; that silver paints are a cleaner white. If you can get a copy of Genetics of Chicken Colours or Silkies and Silkie Bantams by Sigrid van Dort, there is a fairly extensive writeup on paints, including this off colouring

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

i have got this in my paint Marans project...

This colouring is very common in paints, and can occur (usually in a much lesser extent) in dominant white birds as well. I call it champagne. Genetically it is not khaki (I^D/I^D). I have produced a very few dun paints (dun spots on a white background), and if I can ever get them to maturity without stupid mishaps (horse stepped on the first, heat got the second and pool got the third), I will be following some breeding advice that should shed some light on paint.

If you are wanting to produce non-spotted birds of this colour, breed to black or together, selecting for the birds with the least spoting, rather than for birds with the most spotting, as paint breeders are doing.

There is some thought that this colouring requires that a bird be gold rather than silver; that silver paints are a cleaner white. If you can get a copy of Genetics of Chicken Colours or Silkies and Silkie Bantams by Sigrid van Dort, there is a fairly extensive writeup on paints, including this off colouring

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Okay, this is my new chocolate bird from Jerry

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

My bad, not chocolate, possible dun. All the grey feathers are tannish.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

My bad, not chocolate, possible dun. All the grey feathers are tannish.

??? choc/choc and I^D/i+ look pretty much the same. Breeding records can differentiate between them, but not appearance.

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Do you see any other dilute genes in my roo?

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

??? choc/choc and I^D/i+ look pretty much the same. Breeding records can differentiate between them, but not appearance.

I understood that dun dilutes feathers individually and can have many shades on the same bird, whereas chocolate dilutes the black the same over the entire bird. Also, dun fades more so than chocolate. Did I understand that correctly?

 

[nicalandia]

I understood that dun dilutes feathers individually and can have many shades on the same bird, whereas chocolate dilutes the black the same over the entire bird. Also, dun fades more so than chocolate. Did I understand that correctly?

No... shades of dun chocolate are caused by other genes.. not dun itself

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: I've had some dun that were very uniform in colouring and others that were very splotchy in colouring. Silver versus gold also seems to make a difference in the hue. And of course old or sun bleached feathers look much splotchier than ones that are brand new. I cannot speak to choc, but I would expect that the same could be said for a choc/choc bird.

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

It's weird. My buff d'uccles, some will fade in the sun and some will keep that bright buff shade all year. You can tell there's definitely two different buffs going on. It would be nice to isolate the different buff genes. I hatched some of those eggs and some chicks grew dark mahogany feathers, while others got lighter, and others were the norm. \There must have been Di in there over mahogany, correct? (Or similar to that?)