Post Your Chocolates, Dun ,Khaki , Platinum Bird Pics

[smoothmule]

I believe duns who are silver are slightly more taupe in hue than are ones that are gold, but I do agree with Henk that they all look brown.

I have one dun silkie cock who his whole life (2+ years) he has been a rich milk-chocolate colour. After his recent molt, if I didn't know better I would have said he was a black. There is no mistaking him with that comb

This one looks red on my monitor?? Do you have other photo's of him when he was milk chocolate color?

 

[chickened]

I have some hatchings from my choc/dun over choc/dun matings and ended up with some blue/gray chicks, any idea what the color will be? the others are black to a dun color in range of color.

 

[smoothmule]

Platinum and DO please share photo's of the chick down, juvenile feathering and mature feathering. When they are mature, post the start to finish photo's, that is soo good to learn from.

Thanks!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: That's the only one I found when I looked through photos...he isn't big on my "take a photo of that bird" list due to his comb. Right now he looks stark, shiny black. I will try to get a photo today. I can see how you would say he looks red (as in show quality RIR red), but he isn't.

 

[smoothmule]

That's the only one I found when I looked through photos...he isn't big on my "take a photo of that bird" list due to his comb. Right now he looks stark, shiny black. I will try to get a photo today. I can see how you would say he looks red (as in show quality RIR red), but he isn't.

The amazing changing cockerel, lol. He's kind of funky cool whatever his comb is like. I know what you mean by not on the list. I used to have a culled cockerel that was so ugly and incorrect here that I named him skanky. He lived with some pups I raised as LGD's and he was always with them so I let him live. When the pups were older, I gave him to a guy as a mixed breed rooster and they guy thought he was "awesome", LOL

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

A dun/silver OEGB from Ideal hatchery. Finally got a for sure dun!

 

[Caitlin_VT]

Is there anyone with a Chocolate colored standard-sized bird that lays white eggs?

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

Sumatra's lay white eggs don't they???

 

[chickened]

Is there anyone with a Chocolate colored standard-sized bird that lays white eggs?

I have seen polish that are chocolate and they lay a white egg. All birds with a white earlobe lay a white egg except penedesencas and a few of the newer breeds.

 

[smoothmule]

Some of the old breeds with red ear lobes also lay a white egg. It's breeding for it that has made the white egg layers have white ear lobes and the brown egg layers red ear lobes......and then you have the Araucana's, they sometimes have white in the ear lobes (a fault) but they lay blue eggs.
My Barred Hollands have red ear lobes and lay white eggs and they're an old breed.

Caitlin, there may be in the future. My Barred Hollands are white eggers. I plan to cross them to some of my chocolates and the white to blue will produce some that will lay white eggs rather than blue. I plan to produce some chocolate barred using the Barred Hollands as I work on the Hollands breed, I have a couple of large fowl hens that are chocolate, blue eggers. When my Barred Holland cockerels are breeding, they will be crossed to those chocolate hens. The chicks from that cross won't be chocolate but the barred cockerels will all carry chocolate and be bred back to those chocolate hens. They will have chocolate feathering, yellow skin, red ear lobes and some will lay blue, some will lay white eggs.


Sumatra's do lay white eggs, they are Dun type chocolate in the heterozygous form, you would have to breed to black to keep the chocolate color.