Breeding for Chocolate Mottled Orpington

[jinxette]

So I'm wanting to create a chocolate mottled orpington. I currently only have chicks, so i'm waiting for them to grow out. I've been studying genetics, but still new to this side of it (i'm used to easy horse genetics).

So I have pure mottled babies, pure chocolate babies, and some babies that are from a mixed orpington flock with mottled rooster. The hens from the mixed flock are chocolate, mottled, and a single buff and lavender orpington.

The babies from this mixed flock are physically showing mottled and an off chocolate color (chocolate body with reddish heads)

What would be my easiest way to create a flock of mottled chocolate orpingtons out of this multitude of options? XD

 

[SourRoses]

Avoid the mixed colors, that will just mess things up for a long, long time.
Don't breed the buff or lavenders
(lavender + chocolate = mauve, which the majority of people really don't like and are therefore hard to rehome).

You want the pure black mottled and the chocolates.
A chocolate roo is the easiest path, provided one grows up with good overall type. Don't get so blinded by color that you breed for lesser quality.
Any chocolates that show up from this pairing will be females. Keep those and choose the best type. Now you have chocolate split to mottled.
You can breed them to a sibling for the fastest results on the color... OR, breed them to the best black mottled roo. I say this because the black lines often have better type, but if that is not your case then disregard this part. Then keep the best son from the choc mottled split hen + black mottled roo. Preferably a fully mottled one. All those boys will be split for chocolate.
Now breed him back to the choc mottled split hens and you will get some chocolate fully mottled of both genders.

 

[jinxette]

Avoid the mixed colors, that will just mess things up for a long, long time.
Don't breed the buff or lavenders
(lavender + chocolate = mauve, which the majority of people really don't like and are therefore hard to rehome).

You want the pure black mottled and the chocolates.
A chocolate roo is the easiest path, provided one grows up with good overall type. Don't get so blinded by color that you breed for lesser quality.
Any chocolates that show up from this pairing will be females. Keep those and choose the best type. Now you have chocolate split to mottled.
You can breed them to a sibling for the fastest results on the color... OR, breed them to the best black mottled roo. I say this because the black lines often have better type, but if that is not your case then disregard this part. Then keep the best son from the choc mottled split hen + black mottled roo. Preferably a fully mottled one. All those boys will be split for chocolate.
Now breed him back to the choc mottled split hens and you will get some chocolate fully mottled of both genders.

I figured as much for the mixed. If I could pin point if the eggs came from the chocolate hens I might have some kind of chance but eh. Not too bummed about those as they were from a batch of eggs I used to test out a new incubator. I’ll probably sell them

So the first pairing you would recommend would be a chocolate too over the mottled hens?

Thankfully I only have an ermine ameracauna breeding pen so I can hopefully have several breeding pens of different crosses going to fast track those project to get a good quality! I’m still learning about how to determine good quality for orpingtons. I’m used to sebrights