Names/Genetic makeup of this pair

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SJG
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Names/Genetic makeup of this pair

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Wondering if anyone could suggest what colors/pattern/modifiers are in these two birds? Especially the gold bar hen in the second picture. Last picture is their latest round of youngsters.

Any suggestions of what these colors are all called is helpful too-I’m fairly new to the genetics side of pigeons.

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Dominant opal saddles, I believe.
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I'll have to look more into Dominant Opal and it's phenotypes. Would these both be dominant opal even though the cock is much lighter?
Any ideas what makes the unique (to me) coloring of the bars on the hen? It was referred to as a gold bar by someone who looked at this same picture, but I'm not sure on that.

Also, I assume at least one of these must be Ash red but hidden by the opal and both must be carrying dilute to get the yellow bar baby in the front of the last picture? (Or the cock has dilute and the yellow bar is a hen, but I have two of these young so far and at least one of them seems to be a cock)
Or am I off base in thinking that youngster is a dilute ash red bar?
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Father seems ash red Dominant opal Saddle, and the chcks seem dilute ash red...with or without opal
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Father seems ash red Dominant opal Saddle, and the chcks seem dilute ash red...with or without opal
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