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Crele should breed true if they're pure. You can also breed Isabel cuckoo to them. Isabel cuckoo is essentially a lavender Crele

some recent photos of a few of my hens

I occasionally have chocolate chicks if you'd like to PM me. Hatching is a little slow right now though

I personally like the Isabel best, but maybe I am biased They are just a really cool color to work with and you can also breed with Crele should you decide to do that in the future.

I created a silver lace chocolate last year. Of course, it was still in a project stage but the hen was interesting nonetheless. I sold her but the new owner is continuing the project for choc lace, or choc silver lace. Here she is at about 4 months old.

Hi, I'm sure there are many different opinions from the veteran hatchers on this thread, but I'll share my experiences. I keep my temperature at 99.9 and humidity at 35% for the entire incubation. That means I don't add any water. I move the eggs to lockdown on day 19-20. And on the 21st...

I've posted these before I think, but these are some of my SL Orp hens from last year's hatch. As you can see their lacing is complete (around the base of each feather) and the color is dark and clear. I'm using these hens as a model to build the rest of my flock and select youngsters this...

I only have young cockerels available right now. But you could keep an eye on RBA

Please don't do this. This genetic pairing has been proven to produce birds with muddy lacing and problems in future progeny. Some breeders did this in an effort/attempt to mass produce the SL, but ended up producing a lot of culls and doing the color more harm than good. There is plenty of...

I've heard true birchens only come in silver variations. It's a project regardless. And there are birchen Orps in the US

I assume the Wyandotte was used many many generations ago and bred to orpingtons to eventually produce true breeding SL orps. Once in a blue moon a SL orp with yellow legs will pop up in everyone's bloodline so that only strengthens that theory. I have no way to know for sure but that's my...

Jeremy - I can't wait to see what you are able to produce in the future now that you have mottled! :)

Very nice Black Roo! You'll really like the silver laced and chocolates - those are some of my favorites!

Thanks Jeremy! SunnySky, I don't have any males available at this time. I'm hoping to have chicks available soon when I start hatching from the mottled. I've got a very promising breeding group this year of both black split mottled and pure mottled solely from my line. Hopefully soon I'll...

A Delaware is a cuckoo columbian essentially. Don't ask me why they are called Delawares :) Because the bird above does not possess any barring that I can see... I'd call him just a plain Columbian Orpington.

You absolutely did nothing wrong - everyone who knows me knows that I am very helpful. I think i have a fairly good reputation as an easy-going breeder/chicken hobbyist unlike some of the other more competitive breeders out there. I do all I can to help others out by giving advice, birds, and...

There has been a lot of debate among top UK breeders that breeding GL to SL makes the color muddy in the resulting offspring and future progeny. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but I have no reason to doubt it.

If you are asking how I created my original gold lace chocolates, I am not sure I want to divulge that information on a public forum. If the new owner wants to discuss this subject, he can. But since I don't own the project anymore I wouldn't feel comfortable telling everyone else how to...

Nellie, you did miss something. I never said that pairing would produce gold lace chocolate offspring the first generation. It's a project. The pairing will produce males that are gold lace Split to chocolate. When that male is bred back to a solid Gold Lace Choc hen, a percentage of...

Thanks, I appreciate it :) 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...