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[Lorilyn Farms]

My chocolate colored Mottled D'uccle. Not sure if it's dun or chocolate based. Is there a way to tell by feather shaft or under feathers?

 

[smoothmule]

My chocolate colored Mottled D'uccle. Not sure if it's dun or chocolate based. Is there a way to tell by feather shaft or under feathers?

No way to tell that I'm aware of other than by breeding. A black cock with no red leakage that is known not to carry chocolate would be the best cross, imo, to determine what you're working with there. A single chocolate looking chick, and she has to be dun. Not a single chocolate chick and she has to be recessive chocolate but you'll know that 100% of her cockerel chicks carry chocolate but none of the pullets will.

I have found that my dun chicks have a cooler tone to the chick down, sort of silvery. They have been easy, so far, to pick out from the recessive chocolate chicks. The only reason I know this is I've hatched from off white eggs from my dun Sumatra hens and blue eggs from my chocolate hens to chocolate carrying males and so I knew by egg color when they hatched, what they had to be.

The dun chicks were a little hard to tell from black at first but as they dried and fluffed up, especially in the sun, they were obviously different. Here is a recessive chocolate chick, a warm tone, wiht a black chick.



This is a recessive chocolate chick alongside a dun chick right at hatching. The dun chick was nearly black when fully dried and fluffed and there was a silvery cast to it. As it grew, it was more obviously a chocolatey color.



In this photo is an either super pale dun chick (from a dun Sumatra egg, or dun pls rec chocolate, I'll have
to breed this one to be sure because the sire carries rec choc) The one below that is black. The one at the bottom
to the right is a dun chick and the bottom right is a rec choc chick from my blue egg/chocolate Araucana project.

Maybe this would help you figure your pullet color? Did you say you had others that hatched a cooler tone than
the pullet you in your photo? Can you post photo's of them? The reason is that if you have some that you can be pretty sure
are dun by chick color, then the chances that the pictured pullet here is also dun since they come from the same gene pool.
Dun is not recessive so one of the parents had to be dun for the chicks to be dun. The sire would have to be or carry
rec choc for the chicks to be chocolate.



What were your observations at hatching and in chick down? Maybe you can figure this out now.

 

[onagadori]

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Nice!

 

[ramirezframing]

Very nice

 

[onagadori]

Thank both! =)

 

[ramirezframing]

They look like sumatras, are they?

 

[onagadori]

They look like sumatras, are they?

Yes dun Sumatra..

 

[ramirezframing]

Do you have any sumatra roosters? Would love to see their pictures. Your hens have a very nice tail length.

 

[Marthab1953]

Here are some of my Chocolate Laced Polish Bantams I have been working on for 3 seasons now.