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AdamArcher wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 3:02 pm Where are you located?

Ohio, United States

I have been looking into a number of pigeon breeding projects as my sort of niche when I get back into raising pigeons in a few months. One of these ideas was to create Spread Recessive Opals that are homozygous for Indigo "Super Andalusians with recessive Opal, and perhaps the dirty or smoky g...

Ah glad to hear the Spread recessive opal project was a success!

Oh you mean homozygous rec opal, homozygous indigo, and spread? I don't actually know what that would look like. I've got the ingredients here, maybe I should give it a go! Yeah that would be really interesting, which combinations of the genes do you already have? I saw you have a spread recessive ...

I know that Indigo Barless produces an almost entirely blue pigeon, what does homozygous Indigo barless look like?

Yeah. I'm assuming it would look like a homozygous Andalusian with darker lacing, maybe some fret marks on the tail and a slightly lighter plum head but I couldn't say for sure.

Right I think using the "Super" idea for Homozygous in co-dominant mutations helps clear up a lot of the confusion especially considering how different "Super" Andalusian is from regular Andalusian. I've never seen a recessive Opal + Homozygous Andalusian, though in your video on...

Interesting. I tried reading up on the variations between the different opal and indigo varieties. Personally I wasnt a huge fan of Homozygous Indigo without spread but I did find the Homozygous Andalusians very appealing (Since I originally come from the reptile hobby and their genetics I call them...

Just reviewed this post thread. I watched the Adam Archer Indigo genetics video and was really intrigued by it. I saw that there are some breeders that have added Indigo to Dominant Opal. Theoretically could you produce an Indigo or Andalusian recessive opal also?

Would it be easier just to select very heavily for high station, muscle and longer legs in the Giant Runt?. I am still looking for a good breeder for giant runts.