Post Your Chocolates, Dun ,Khaki , Platinum Bird Pics

[jeremy]

Hi everone! Dumb newbie q: Here is an OE I got in a mixed flock. I feel like she is too dark to be blue; can she be classified as platinum? There is a slight brown undertone to the grey...what can I breed her with to 'play up' the brown?

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Blue can come in varying hues, she's definitely Blue.

This is Platinum, it's much lighter in color than most Blues.





The brown you're seeing is most likely due to red influence somewhere in her genetic makeup, if she's from a Marans breeding then that would explain it. What you're seeing is the "copper" from the Marans, it may even become more apparent with age.

There's nothing you can do to "play up" this color, as she matures she may become more red/copper/"brown" colored. If you want Platinum birds, find a Dun or Khaki roo and breed them together, a percentage of her offspring will be Platinum.

 

[smoothmule]

My chocolate Araucana project chick, large fowl

I still have skin color to correct but well on the way to a chocolate Araucana, hoping this is a cockerel

 

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[camocatfish54]

These 2 above me are chocolate wyandottes! I love them!

 

[smoothmule]

I'm so excited!
Hatched my first chick from the dun Sumatra hens/Black (split to chocolate) chocolate Araucana project cockerels this morning, definitely dun. All large fowl. Wow, I thought it was blue but not. Looks chocolate but far cooler in color and it's rumpless. Very nice big chick by the same cockerels I'm getting all these chocolates from. Since the cockerels are splits, this chick can only be dun but if it's a cockerel, there is a 50% chance it also carries chocolate.

Here are 5 chicks, a black (E) and a black (Er) Araucana chicks then 2 chocolates, one much darker and like all the other chocolates so far but one is a paler chocolate (No idea why yet) and then the dun chick which looks bluish (no blues or splash blue here). I put the chicks together so the colors would show the differences. The far left is the dun chick, middle dark chocolate next to the lighter chocolate, the E black on top and Er chick on bottom. I have 8 eggs under one of the dun hens, hoping for more dun. The dun hens will go to my double tufted/rumpless black roo next.

 

[jeremy]

Are you trying to make Beige smoothmule?

 

[smoothmule]

Are you trying to make Beige smoothmule?

Yes, and khaki and platinum..... anything that has a black base and diluters. My black Araucana flock is my foundation. I work to improve it each season and they will bring along the other projects as well. I have 2 duns due to hatch this weekend, if I'm lucky, and 3 more under one of the Dun hens. I have several chocolates now from the chocolate Orp/Ameraucana cross hens to their sons who are half Araucana. Both of the chocolate hens are setting at the moment (another project) and those are not from my hens but are Ameraucana's that are split to silkie feathered (no Silkie breed involved) and those can be black, chocolate, blue, splash or mauve. I plan to see how the silkied feathering looks on a rumpless fowl but I only plan to work on chocolate and black in the silkied project. I have large fowl and bantam, the bantam is a bantam double tufted/rumpless hen to a black silkie feathered Serama. I've done that cross with very good Araucana type a few years ago in blue and they were very small, extremely friendly and the feathering was sooo soft. I think it will go well for a silkied bantam that is rumpless. They will all lay blue eggs.

The latest project will be a chocolate spangled Araucana. I have that started as well.

I hope I can make beige. It's more complicated than just crossing dun to chocolate but I think if I figure it out, it may be able to be made to breed true.... I hope.

 

[ramirezframing]

Yes, and khaki and platinum..... anything that has a black base and diluters. My black Araucana flock is my foundation. I work to improve it each season and they will bring along the other projects as well. I have 2 duns due to hatch this weekend, if I'm lucky, and 3 more under one of the Dun hens. I have several chocolates now from the chocolate Orp/Ameraucana cross hens to their sons who are half Araucana. Both of the chocolate hens are setting at the moment (another project) and those are not from my hens but are Ameraucana's that are split to silkie feathered (no Silkie breed involved) and those can be black, chocolate, blue, splash or mauve. I plan to see how the silkied feathering looks on a rumpless fowl but I only plan to work on chocolate and black in the silkied project. I have large fowl and bantam, the bantam is a bantam double tufted/rumpless hen to a black silkie feathered Serama. I've done that cross with very good Araucana type a few years ago in blue and they were very small, extremely friendly and the feathering was sooo soft. I think it will go well for a silkied bantam that is rumpless. They will all lay blue eggs.

The latest project will be a chocolate spangled Araucana. I have that started as well.

I hope I can make beige. It's more complicated than just crossing dun to chocolate but I think if I figure it out, it may be able to be made to breed true.... I hope.

Looks a little funny but not to bad. I have silkies that are rumpless, due to their araucana great granddad somewhere back there (can't think how far back he is at this moment). It has surprised me how hard it has been to get the tails back in my projects that I had used an araucana in.

 

[smoothmule]

Looks a little funny but not to bad. I have silkies that are rumpless, due to their araucana great granddad somewhere back there (can't think how far back he is at this moment). It has surprised me how hard it has been to get the tails back in my projects that I had used an araucana in.

I like the idea of a silkied Araucana. I think they would make ideal backyard laying hens for folks who live in town. Cool colored eggs, funky looking hens that will get the neighbors asking what they are and where to get them. LOL They won't be capable of flying over fences, perfect hens for most city folks.