Pigeon Adventures

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Pigeon family drama is so much more interesting than chicken drama.

One of my males has three wives. There are multiple single boys in the aviary, I have no idea how he keeps doing this!

 

[Amer]

One of my males has three wives. There are multiple single boys in the aviary, I have no idea how he keeps doing this!

Wow, I wonder how that happens!
He would not be able to keep that up if he had to pay child support, methinks.
BTW, I recently painted Riski!

 

[Amer]

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Over the past few days, three Egyptian swifts were posted in a rescue group I’m in! Two are at an animal shelter and the other was found and went unclaimed by the owner, I think it ended up at a wildlife rehab center called Wild Bird Fund in New York. It’s crazy how many lost domestic pigeons that place has had to take in! They have some weird breeds too, like an American show flight, Komorner tumbler, and so many tipplers.

Wow! If I lived closer I'd take them in an instant! (And Mom wouldn't let me because I am at school and she is taking care of my birds which I am eternally grateful for.)
I think Komorners are pretty!

 

[Amer]

There's been another species split so now Oyster and Vaatras are not just Herring Gulls but American Herring Gulls. As opposed to European Herring Gulls.
This now after the Wandering Albatross split.
Our characters are becoming unrecognizable.

 

[Amer]

https://ferretteeth.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F713683974524944384

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I love the pied recessive red(?) and the red t-check with a crest! And of course the pigeon wall, that’s so cool! Buck is lovely, there are a few in my local flock who look similar (minus the pied feathers). The flock looks pretty healthy too.

Is this blue bar some sort of dilute? I saw a similar one in a city I visited once. View attachment 3716431View attachment 3716430

Haha, they are pretty well-fed.
As to your blue bar, I guess everything lighter than the wild type would be considered diluted.
I am thinking it is blue bar dilute, also known as silver bar.
I am surprised you noticed that. I didn’t. The effect of dilute on blue bar is so slight… unlike with the red pigeons.
I guess that proves you really enjoyed my photos.

Hey Amer, I know this is random, but I’ve been researching the dirty, sooty, and smoky genes, and I was thinking this one in your pictures is a heterozygous smoky blue bar?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

There's been another species split so now Oyster and Vaatras are not just Herring Gulls but American Herring Gulls. As opposed to European Herring Gulls.
This now after the Wandering Albatross split.
Our characters are becoming unrecognizable.

They still probably look the same though

https://ferretteeth.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F713683974524944384

At first I was thinking “Neet would do this” but I’m really underestimating his survival skills, he’s still afraid of unfamiliar cats and roombas (and he hid when a hawk landed on my aviary). Though he did try to court my dog once.

 

[Amer]

Hey Amer, I know this is random, but I’ve been researching the dirty, sooty, and smoky genes, and I was thinking this one in your pictures is a heterozygous smoky blue bar?
This is the one I saw who I’m thinking is smoky:View attachment 4011582

That looks like a smokey to me, due to the light colored beak. (smokey is common in Arabian Trumpters, I think Atlas typically has it.)

But I still believe the diluted one in my picture is a silver bar, like my mom's new Baldhead Show Roller male supposedly is

Both the pigeons are supposedly Dilute (the male being silver bar and the female yellow bar) but the thing is, the owner said occassionally they hatch out Intense offspring, which makes me think perhaps the hen has something else going on. I'll have to get a picture of her strange coloring, you can't see anything.
We showed our pigeons at a show and Mom saw these at the swap section and she really wanted them. Because they're soft and fluffy and she wanted pets. I'm very surprised she wants the fatty pigeons but they are soo soft, I love them already. Right now they're in quarantine.
Most members of this breed are super aggressive and will attack anyone who comes near their cage. This particular pair actually seems slightly less aggressive than my Arabian Trumpeters who love nothing more than to fight all day. Every single member of that family is a brawler and they brawl constantly. I think it's because I put them in a quarantine pen, I need to build more space.

 

[Amer]

Good news is she can't even complain about my pigeons anymore because she just committed herself to the project.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

That looks like a smokey to me, due to the light colored beak. (smokey is common in Arabian Trumpters, I think Atlas typically has it.)

But I still believe the diluted one in my picture is a silver bar, like my mom's new Baldhead Show Roller male supposedly is
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Both the pigeons are supposedly Dilute (the male being silver bar and the female yellow bar) but the thing is, the owner said occassionally they hatch out Intense offspring, which makes me think perhaps the hen has something else going on. I'll have to get a picture of her strange coloring, you can't see anything.
We showed our pigeons at a show and Mom saw these at the swap section and she really wanted them. Because they're soft and fluffy and she wanted pets. I'm very surprised she wants the fatty pigeons but they are soo soft, I love them already. Right now they're in quarantine.
Most members of this breed are super aggressive and will attack anyone who comes near their cage. This particular pair actually seems slightly less aggressive than my Arabian Trumpeters who love nothing more than to fight all day. Every single member of that family is a brawler and they brawl constantly. I think it's because I put them in a quarantine pen, I need to build more space.

Interesting! I was basing my guess about the one in your picture on these smokys from these websites:

https://www.angelfire.com/ga/huntleyloft/smokey.html

https://www.taubensell.de/blue_is_not_blue.htm

What is the “intense” color you mentioned?