Post Your Chocolates, Dun ,Khaki , Platinum Bird Pics

[DRGLENNON]

You had not said that in previous posts. You sounded like you were still trying to say they could be in that last post, sorry

I went back and read my post and see where I was unclear, I'm sorry, I was thinking when I said I had read up on it more and had a better understanding that was clear and it wasn't. I also was still asking more question about dun which confused it further but it was interest in the information not that I was debating. My bad! Please excuse me I was not trying to be rude. (I just went back and read my last post and it reads so much worse than intended)I'm sorry. I feel so bad!

Thanks for directing me to the info. on SCNA about pumpkin color. There was some old information there that helped me understand the color better. From what I read it states the pumpkin is passed down like blue. What would that make my cocopop pair? Do you think they look pumpkin or splash pumpkin? I know the question will eventually be answered when I can get some to hatch but I'm excited and wondering if all my babies are going to be splash

 

[jeremy]

Bantam dun wyandottes seem easier to transfer to orp type than an OEGB. They are out there. I got mine from a breeder that sold out up in Maine about 7 years back.

Yeah, that would definitely be a faster way to work back towards the Orp shape- but Wyandottes have yellow skin, that's not something I want to introduce.

OEGB have white... right?

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Yeah, that would definitely be a faster way to work back towards the Orp shape- but Wyandottes have yellow skin, that's not something I want to introduce.

OEGB have white... right?

Yes. The only downside is hard feathering and overall type. I think Ideal sells them as 'chocolate' OEGB. I am guessing their type wouldn't be the best anyway

 

[smoothmule]

Yeah, that would definitely be a faster way to work back towards the Orp shape- but Wyandottes have yellow skin, that's not something I want to introduce.

OEGB have white... right?

I think the Sussex would be my first choice for Wyandottes but I'm not sure they have cinnamon in bantams?
Is there a common breed that I can find a hen to breed to my Cockerel for you? He's not huge, I think there might be something in my area that is black that would work? I could probably find a bantam black Orp and just ship you the eggs for hatching.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

If Ideal had duns, you could have a good chance at white skin. I got 15 buff wyandotte bantams from them last year and all of them have white skin and look like a rose combed buff orp bantam but that is a whole other story...

Do black orpington bantams have black or white legs? That may make a difference in which breed you use to introduce the color.

 

[smoothmule]

Hatching from my chocolate Araucana project pen.....first entire batch hatched black chicks! Lol. Way off what I expected. But this second batch hatched 3 chocolates.....that was more like it. Now hoping at least one is a cockerel. These are recessive chocolates, not dun.

These are the first 2. There is another one now too and one that hatched that did not absorb the yolk sack and died.
I will continue to set this spring till I have a good number to work with in the spring.

 

[jeremy]

***UPDATED***

I now have a bantam Orpington pair for sale.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/985010/updated-bantam-orpington-pair

 

[jeremy]

My bantam Mauve Orpingon went broody & hatched 3 chicks!

Blue split to Chocolate cockerel on the left, Chocolate pullet on the right.


Splash- don't know whether this is a male or female yet. If a boy, he'll be Splash split to Chocolate, if a girl she will be Mauve (Chocolate & Blue), with 2 copies of the Blue gene.


Always right next to momma, who wouldn't hold still for the camera.

They're plotting something...

Chubby lil' Blue & Chocolate chicks.

 

[smoothmule]

My bantam Mauve Orpingon went broody & hatched 3 chicks!

Blue split to Chocolate cockerel on the left, Chocolate pullet on the right.


Splash- don't know whether this is a male or female yet. If a boy, he'll be Splash split to Chocolate, if a girl she will be Mauve (Chocolate & Blue), with 2 copies of the Blue gene.


Always right next to momma, who wouldn't hold still for the camera.

They're plotting something...

Chubby lil' Blue & Chocolate chicks.

They are adorable!

 

[Helen in the Desert]

Is the Chocolate that Serama carry that is not Dun/Khaki a simple recessive? It seems to differ from Lavender/Self Blue in that it is sex link.

I read through the closed Coco Pop thread, but that ended in 2011. Any new developments?

Has anyone bred a "Chocolate" Serama to a black bird of another breed to test the color? I would think that would be a simple way to find out if the gene is chocolate or dun. I say another breed because it is my understanding that Serama are very mixed in their genetics and it is rare to have a "pure" colored bird.