Post Your Chocolates, Dun ,Khaki , Platinum Bird Pics

[smoothmule]

@smoothmule , your pullets look fantastic!

Thank you, it's a long term project.... still much to do

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Sorry, I was getting speckled mixed with spangled. My birds started out like this


(birds are fancyfeathers38's)

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

How do you figure?

A Dun Speckled Sussex would look just like a regular Speckled Sussex, except brown hues would replace the Black speckling...

It would look like this, with a mahogany ground color instead of gold.

I goofed Jeremy. That's also the coloring I'm going for in my d'uccles. The columbian gene mixed with mottling.

In my third generation of d'uccle crosses, I'm very hopeful to be getting closer to that coloring. Also, I hatched out a wonderful little roo carrying that mahoghany gene, which would lok very nice next to the dun/chocolate. i will take pictures today.

SmoothMule, you always take such special care to document your projects and share with us, thanks!

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Here is my mahoghany roo (D'uccle' cross)


I tried to take photos of my babies, but I did a crappy job. I have to wait until the sun hits the window for better lighting.



Some dun and chocolate mamas for my project...


A third gen baby. Still plagued by the wild gene. This one has Columbian, but no mottling.

And my two Roos..
All D'uccle.

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(He's a 2nd gen Silver Spangled/D'uccle cross)

Hope I did as good a job of documenting as SmoothMule.

 

[Helen in the Desert]

I have been skimming through the thread and maybe I missed it: here is my understanding so far -

Black - Blue - Splash is the same as Black - Chocolate/Dun - Khaki (yes, I know they are different and yet similar) trying to get the terms correct - and if the bird does not SHOW Blue/Splash or ChocolateDun/Khaki it does not carry it.
What combinations can transpire from breeding blue to chocolate/dun? Can you have a blue bird with khaki or a chocolate bird with splash or only certain combinations?

Self blue/Lilac is basic recessive, replaces black and dilutes other colors - (Red? Mahogany?) - leading to Porcaline in Mille Fluer (D'Uccles) / Partridge (Silkies) or Isabella in Partridge (Brahma)

What is Platinum exactly? Is it its own genetic or a combination?

Thanks

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

There are two basic colours in chicken plumage: black and red. Everything else is a dilution or enhancement of those two pigments. Some genes affect only one of those colours; others have an affect on both to some extent. Lavender is the only gene that affects both equally. White is the lack of pigment.

When you combine multiple dilution genes, the appearance may or may not show a combined affect on the plumage. For example platinum is the combined affect of blue and dun: Bl/bl+ I^D/i+ I think Henk has a chart that shows how the genes interact.

 

[Helen in the Desert]

There are two basic colours in chicken plumage: black and red. Everything else is a dilution or enhancement of those two pigments. Some genes affect only one of those colours; others have an affect on both to some extent. Lavender is the only gene that affects both equally. White is the lack of pigment.

When you combine multiple dilution genes, the appearance may or may not show a combined affect on the plumage. For example platinum is the combined affect of blue and dun: Bl/bl+ I^D/i+ I think Henk has a chart that shows how the genes interact.

Thanks, that helps a lot. What is Silver?

 

[Henk69]

Thanks, that helps a lot. What is Silver?

Silver is the lack of the so called groundcolor (gold). Red features like shoulders and salmon breast/body are still possible though.

 

[Earth Bird]

Would you be able to tell me if the color of these chicks would be considered chocolate or dun?











Thanks for your input.

 

[jeremy]

What breed are they?

They all look to just be gold based, which is causing the reddish brown hue to their feathers.