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by AdamArcher
Sun Mar 23, 2025 10:45 am
Forum: Pigeon Genetic Discussion
Topic: pairing almond with brown
Replies: 5
Views: 14322

Re: pairing almond with brown

Yes, in that case it is possible.
by AdamArcher
Sat Mar 22, 2025 6:35 pm
Forum: Pigeon Genetic Discussion
Topic: pairing almond with brown
Replies: 5
Views: 14322

Re: pairing almond with brown

From your original mating, no, you'll not have any brown. It is impossible if the only source is the mother.

From brown cock x almond hen, yes you can get some almond cocks that carry and will express some brown. Combined with spread I think they're very pretty.
by AdamArcher
Fri Mar 21, 2025 3:17 pm
Forum: Pigeon Genetic Discussion
Topic: pairing almond with brown
Replies: 5
Views: 14322

Re: pairing almond with brown

All cocks will be carrying brown from that mating, and half will be almond, but they'll be on opposite chromosomes. You'll need a crossover to get a brown almond hen in the next generation.
by AdamArcher
Sat Mar 15, 2025 10:02 am
Forum: Pigeon Genetic Discussion
Topic: White color question
Replies: 1
Views: 5627

Re: White color question

I haven't updated it in a while, but here is a page I wrote on white years ago: https://www.pigeongenetics.com/wiki/index.php/White White is complex as it is not a single gene, it is a phenotype that can be created through many different genotypes. Your birds might produce white, they might not, dep...
by AdamArcher
Mon Mar 10, 2025 7:40 pm
Forum: Colour identification
Topic: amazing colour in new chick
Replies: 5
Views: 15468

Re: amazing colour in new chick

Ash red spread is very highly variable, it'll definitely change in the moult.
by AdamArcher
Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:49 am
Forum: Colour identification
Topic: amazing colour in new chick
Replies: 5
Views: 15468

Re: amazing colour in new chick

Its ash red spread, the colour will change a bit in the moult
by AdamArcher
Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:01 pm
Forum: Colour identification
Topic: New Bird
Replies: 2
Views: 5227

Re: New Bird

Indigo stipper I think
by AdamArcher
Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:00 pm
Forum: Colour identification
Topic: squeaker acquisition: what is the white?
Replies: 2
Views: 5186

Re: squeaker acquisition: what is the white?

The white behind the eye is "tic eye" and can sometimes be an indication of dirty. The white in the pattern will likely moult out.
by AdamArcher
Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:04 pm
Forum: Colour identification
Topic: Barless Id
Replies: 1
Views: 5442

Re: Barless Id

Top one might be a dilute ash red spread.
by AdamArcher
Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:12 am
Forum: Colour identification
Topic: Color?
Replies: 3
Views: 5906

Re: Color?

Dilute blue bar (silver bar), the other is likely going to be a sooty dilute ash red bar (sooty yellow bar).