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The brown opal hen is the mother of both the spread opal and the reduced youngsters. And yes you are welcome to download the photo.

So, you are saying that a crossover occurs on the z chromosome every time a sperm is created?

Very nice looking bird, but what impresses me is how he is perched. Do birds from down under often perch that way?

Yes, that's very strange, isn't it? This youngster seemed for sure to me to be a hen when it first started feathering, as it looked really dark. Then as the feathers grew, it lightened up. It's still pretty dark, but now I'm thinking it could possibly be a cock. What do you think? I knew the hens we...

This is the hen that the two youngsters are out of. Seems it is a recessive opal brown check.

Spread recessive opal & it's reduced nestmate. I'm not sure if the reduced is spread, or maybe even spread opal.

Here is a photo of the spread opal youngster and it's reduced nestmate.

I think the eye color just looks that way from the flash. Sorry for such a poor photo, it is an old scan from years ago.

I do raise Norwich Croppers, and have for years. I have a few other breeds, and play with introducing color factors into the Norwich. Some of the breeds I play with are Starlings, Archangels, Brander bronze show tipplers, Homers, Ice pigeons, and Steller Croppers. I just acquired on loan a few pairs...

Years ago I had been playing around with spread opal, and spread indigo, in racing homers. i put things together, without really meaning too, and was surprised at the result. I raised the first one out of a black, mated to an andalusion, and was amazed at what showed up in the nest. I wasn't positiv...