Post Your Chocolates, Dun ,Khaki , Platinum Bird Pics

[Sterkfarm]

My handsome wyandotte choc roo. I have big plans to get that choc gene into a few breeds for fun! And because I'm in Canada, it's the only way to do it. I don't know if there are other cdns with choc birds? If so if love to hear from you. On my list: choc 'canas, choc silkies, choc orps. It will be a long term project for sure!!!

 

[smoothmule]

My handsome wyandotte choc roo. I have big plans to get that choc gene into a few breeds for fun! And because I'm in Canada, it's the only way to do it. I don't know if there are other cdns with choc birds? If so if love to hear from you. On my list: choc 'canas, choc silkies, choc orps. It will be a long term project for sure!!!

Chocolate Araucana's? I have a great start on those here (in the US) I have bantam and large fowl

 

[Sterkfarm]

Shoot. Should have clarified. Ameraucanas. They are super popular in Ontario and Canada in general, probably because its easy for us to get eggs from across the border (I'm a mere 2 hrs from Buffalo). Araucanas are rare here and I'm always dubious as to the accuracy of the lineage. I am however a sucker for cheeks, beards, and muffs
I'd be interested to hear more about the project.

 

[smoothmule]

I have both Recessive/Sex Linked chocolates and Dun Chocolates as Araucana projects. I have a few and I can't wait till summer when they will be producing but in the meantime, I let a hen set a few eggs and here is a chick that hatched today.

Mother is one of these hens, both dun Sumatra's but their dun shades are very different. They were both really sun faded and have some of their fresh feathers grown back in but you can see that one has a cooler toned dun color and the other is a warmer tone, more like my recessive chocolate hens. One of them is the mother to the chick below



This is possibly the sire to the chick. There are 3 cockerels that are brothers in this pen. They are by my black Araucana rooster and one of my 2 chocolate Orp/Ameraucana cross hens so all 3 cockerels are black but all carry recessive chocolate.





There were 3 chicks hatched today, 2 are black and the last one to hatch is this one. This is not what my recessive chocolate chicks look like, too light. That leaves possibly dun plus recessive chocolate or just dun. I'm not sure yet but if it's a cockerel, I'll know there is no recessive chocolate because a carrier roo to a non recessive chocolate hen cannot produce a chocolate cockerel (just another carrier). If it's a pullet, then it will be dun but possibly a dun plus recessive chocolate because that is possible. It will be dun for sure but the only way I'll know for sure if it's also chocolate if I breed her to a chocolate male and 100% of the chicks are chocolate or chocolate plus dun.

My best guess is dun only. It's pretty light but it's already showing pretty dark pin feathers. Regardless, it's a nice fat healthy chick, rumpless and clean faced and will be bred back to my black Araucana's.

 

[smoothmule]

Here is the chick (the same as the one in the photo's above here).

Looking to be a pullet,


The chick next to the light colored chick is a regular dun color chick from the same hens.
It's very dark compared to the other chick but it's not black.




I'm anxious for this pullet to mature

 

[ameraucanacrazy]

My lemon chocolate Old English in chocolate, dun, and platinum.

 

[Matt Righi]

Hi, I'm new of here! I'm writing here because I want to get dun cuckoo from my frizzled cuckoo and dun Polish I raise, but I've some doubts.
I crossed cuckoo rooster with dun female and the chicks hatched seems clear cuckoo. Is it a shade of dun together the black of cuckoo?

Or are they the real dun cuckoo?

It was also born a chick more brown than his brothers. Could it be a dun cuckoo?

This is my adult chickens: Cuckoo frizzled roos and dun hen



In this days I'll post other photos of the baby chicks, they are grown and the color looks better on the wings now.

Thank you very much to all! Matt

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

looks dun to me on the chick.

black to dun though makes 50% of each so you will get blacks too.

a cuckoo is a barred gene on a black bird is all.

you went the right route with the cuckoo male too, that way all chicks will be cuckoo.

you'll need to breed them together again to get back to a pure double factored male again is all.

but yes, chick down looks dun in the first couple pics.

 

[Matt Righi]

Thank you very very much Boggy Bottom. I would like to ask an other thing: my roos has a defect, it has red marks on the ear-lobes. Is this a dominant defect? Will all my chicks have this defect? Thanks again

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

White lobe color will cover red fairly easily