Thanks, I appreciate itCongrats Bryce on your project chocolate laced orps!!!! I was following that auction out of curiosity and was blown away with their final selling price!
Just curious, why did you choose to use a silver laced bird over the chocolate laced hen? Do the current silver laced orps carry the diluting gene? Why would one not prefer to use a black laced gold over chocolates to begin the cross and then refine lacing from there? (Forgive my ignorance)
Well, one reason I chose the Silver Laced is that I raise Silver Laced and had some extra roosters. I don't raise Gold Lace so that would've meant buying one from someone else and I run a semi-closed flock. I can count on one hand the people I've bought from since I first started raising chickens. The Silver Laced rooster is a good choice as well because the male offspring that is produced will be gold lace split to chocolate. Breed those back to a Gold Lace Choc hen and you're producing a percentage GLC offspring
The winner actually won a juvenile pair of Gold Lace Chocolates last year (a pure male and female) so I am sure we are going to be seeing some very nice gold lace chocolates for sale soon