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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.

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...

Ash red spread is very highly variable, it'll definitely change in the moult.

Its ash red spread, the colour will change a bit in the moult

Indigo stipper I think

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.

Top one might be a dilute ash red spread.

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

There are a few things to unpack here. 1st - the "yellow" you're likely referring to is commonly known as "recessive yellow", more accurately it is homozygous recessive red and homozygous dilute. It MAY also have the spread gene, but very often doesn't. "Spread yellow" ...

If they're out of a lemon cock to a normal hen then yes they're hens.