Post Your Chocolates, Dun ,Khaki , Platinum Bird Pics

[heritagehabitatfarms]

looking good...

 

[jeremy]

Hatched another chocolate pullet yesterday. This one may be birchen and mottled

Mottled Chocolate...

 

[smoothmule]

I had to put the rest of my Araucana hens in the chocolate project pen a couple of months ago when I took in some chickens my son had left after most died in the heat. I turned my Araucana roosters out to free range and rest from breeding and left the chocolate orpington/black Ameraucana rooster with all the hens, black, blue, blue splash and one that is wheaten/wild type looking.

I am suspecting this chick has both the chocolate gene and blue gene.






The feathers that are coming in on the wing tips are a pale tan

 

[nicalandia]

I had to put the rest of my Araucana hens in the chocolate project pen a couple of months ago when I took in some chickens my son had left after most died in the heat. I turned my Araucana roosters out to free range and rest from breeding and left the chocolate orpington/black Ameraucana rooster with all the hens, black, blue, blue splash and one that is wheaten/wild type looking.

I am suspecting this chick has both the chocolate gene and blue gene.






The feathers that are coming in on the wing tips are a pale tan

choc and blue will create the so called Mauve right? your chicks could be the very first pics of mauve chicks posted on the internet(searched and searched but nothing)

here are some mauve pullets so far I have only seen Mauve hens, and Platinum rooster(Dun and Blue all in one bird)

I managed to take a better picture of those Mauve Pullets. What do you guys think?

I agree Mauve is a rather dull name. In Grant Brereton's last book they called them Lilac Orpingtons, but that doesn't seem to match either.

they look like rusty blue hens, which are very rare indeed, most rusty blue birds are boys, I have a hen that is kind of rusty too, those hens have beautiful chocolate colored lacing and a light blue background(blue cant dilute that lacing found on Extended black birds, leaving choc to turn that black pigment into a chocolate laced)

 

[hoppy]

I have some khaki? colored silkies (pale brownish tan, like "clay" colored house siding) and it seems they are all that hatch this color are boys. if this was sex linked, i'd think they should all be girls. dad is also khaki.
these I believe come when I cross the dad with splash (I have 4 different splash girls)

 

[smoothmule]

Actually, Mauve has been described as a "dun type" chocolate crossed to blue so it's going to be different. The poultry color calculator developed bu Henk is based on the dun chocolate, not recessive chocolate. Mine are the recessive type chocolates that are sex linked. It's going to be fun to watch this chick mature and I'm hoping for more. There are 2 blue splash hens and a blue hen in that pen so one of those are this chicks mother.

 

[Henk69]

Mauve = sexlinked chocolate + blue
Platinum = dun type chocolate + blue

The chickencalculator can handle both kinds of chocolate but doesn't use these new names.

 

[hoppy]

recessive and sex linked are not the same.

Mine are the recessive type chocolates that are sex linked.

 

[nicalandia]

recessive and sex linked are not the same.

why you say that? he is clearly talking about Recessive Sexlinked Chocolate(choc) so in this case they are one and the same, so far I am not aware of a dominant sex linked chocolate gene, are you?

 

[Marthab1953]

I just read this thread and went out and took a couple pictures of my polish.