Non Bearded White Crested Chocolate
The White Crested Chocolate Bantam was created by Al Westling of Kansas, USA.
The white crested chocolates are still a very new variety and are about as rare as hen's teeth. Also, they are only in the bantam size right now.
When you breed a white crested chocolate male to a white crested chocolate female, you will get white crested chocolate, white crested black and white crested khaki. If you breed a white crested black to a white crested chocolate you will get white crested chocolate and white crested black. (Caveat - The information is here as experimental only and will be updated as more advanced information is received.)
The standard for the white crested chocolate is the same as for the white crested black except for the color of the body plumage.
Dun or “chocolate” ….This is one of the colors that is still in the “experimental stages” and are not yet ready for open distribution.The dun gene is one that has been around for a long time in the pit games and has given fanciers some challenges by working the gene actions into other breeds and varieties.The dun gene acts on diluting the black coloring of a bird to that of a bluish tan or grayish tan or chocolate ice cream color.Just imagine birds that are the color of chocolate ice cream all over and this is what you should see.The dun gene is heterozygous and therefore when breeding dun x dun you are going to get some birds that are black (25%), some birds that are dun (50%); and a few that are “splashed” (25%).The color of the splashes is more of an ashy-gray color.The genes involved are…….
E E “extended black”
ID ID “dun diluter of black”
The couple of years that I bred chocolates (called duns back then, the ABA demanded that the color be called chocolate in the standard) the chocolate to black mating gave both colors. The chocolate to chocolate mating also gave both colors plus the light dun color.
Glen Cryer
Breeding Dun's
Chocolate X Chocolate = 25%Black, 25%Khaki, 50%Chocolate
Chocolate X Black = 50%Black & 50%Chocolate
Chocolate X Khaki = 50%Chocolate & 50%Khaki
Khaki X Black = 100%Chocolate
Khaki X Khaki = 100%Khaki
