Color Projects

[Mary Of Exeter]

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I'll have you covered soon

I'll be starting an ice homer project in the new few months!

 

[larrylofts]

Grizzle To Grizzle Will Wash Out The Color And You End Up With Whites After A Few Generations . Some Breeds That Have White Are These Kind Of Whites. What Makes Me Think About This Is The Colored Beak.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

White birds with dark beaks are homozygous blue grizzles, probably also dirty, possibly piebald to help with the white. May or may not have colored eyes. Homozygous ash-red grizzles are easier to turn solid white and keep a flesh colored beak. Dirty will darken the beak on them but not to the point of being black. These may also have colored eyes. They usually do, although bull eyes are possible.

 

[ridinglizzard]

Wow, this is all really fascinating. Where can I learn more about colour?

I will take photos of the parents and babies so that you can see more clearly what I am describing.

Thanks!

 

[NewHopePoultry]

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I'll have you covered soon

I'll be starting an ice homer project in the new few months!

Lucky you!! I love ice

 

[Lofty Dreams]

I'm working on rolling Dual-Purpose Rollers in the Lavender color.
I was thinking of doing the lebanon colors but havn't found any Lebanons.I have some youngsters that are slightly similar in color though.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Lavender as in spread ash-red or lavender as in milky black?

Lebanons are frill stencil, which is already in rollers. Although many of them are also toy stencil, so you'll have to isolate it.

 

[ridinglizzard]

Ok, here are my most recent homer pigeon family:

Mom:

Dad:

Offspring#1 (with expected coloration):

Offspring#2 (with surprised coloring.... please explain!!!)

ps. Mom's mom had a white body, black beak; Mom's dad had a white body, white beak
Dad's mom and dad had a white body, white beak

How does it happen that the one offspring is brown???!!!

 

[larrylofts]

Looks ASh Red Check To Me .

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Cowboy, do you think it will be hard to get the homer look bred back out? I would think it would take lots of generations before you could do that.I also wonder how long it take to get the color and the feathered legs on the same bird. I just don't have enough patience to try something like that! Keep us posted please with what you come up with. It's really interesting. To see a master breeder at work!