chocolate silver laced english orpington rooster + chocolate english orpington hen =

[Jenbirdee]

what is the offspring going to be?

 

[janiedoe]

I think you will get black, maybe with some lacing. But lets ask @Amer

 

[Jenbirdee]

I think you will get black, maybe with some lacing. But lets ask @Amer

oh well that’s boring ( black) i wonder what other colors of english orp roos would make with my choc hens or if they all be black. hmmph

 

[Jenbirdee]

maybe next spring i can get silver laced orpington chicks! or jubilee orpington chicks! and i’ll just keep a roo and a hen. ( i can only fit 2 more chickens in my chicken coop) and perhaps then we can start having fancy babies

 

[Worm94]

i might be wrong but i think if they're both chocolate, you'd get chocolate chicks out of them. I don't know about the lacing, it might be incomplete.

 

[Jenbirdee]

i might be wrong but i think if they're both chocolate, you'd get chocolate chicks out of them. I don't know about the lacing, it might be incomplete.

ok so chocolate laced rooster you mean then? they are gorgeous

 

[Worm94]

ok so chocolate laced rooster you mean then? they are gorgeous

Yeah I've seen pictures, they are beautiful! If the hen and rooster were both chocolate, then you'd get chocolate chicks and if the rooster had lacing, it might take a couple generations but you could get the lacing in the hens too.

 

[AinaWGSD]

You shouldn't get black out of chocolate silver laced x chocolate. Chocolate is a sex linked gene, like barring. It is only found on the Z chromosome. Chocolate roosters (zz) need to have 2 copies of the chocolate gene in order to be chocolate, one on each Z chromosome. So your chocolate silver laced rooster can only pass on chocolate genes to his offspring. Hens (zw) only have 1 Z chromosome, if your hen is chocolate then she can only pass on chocolate on the Z chromosome. Female chicks from this cross will get the Z chromosome with the chocolate gene from the rooster and will be chocolate. Male chicks from this cross will inherit the chocolate gene on the Z chromosome from both parents and will be chocolate.

Now as for patterning, I'm a lot less solid on the genetics and inheritance pattern. My guess is that you should get at least partial lacing in at least some, if not all, of the chicks.

 

[janiedoe]

i might be wrong but i think if they're both chocolate, you'd get chocolate chicks out of them. I don't know about the lacing, it might be incomplete.

I think you may be right. I missed the chocolate before the silver laced !

 

[Amer]

You will get chocolate with some silver lacing on the breast.