Pigeon Adventures

Amer · Dec 21, 2024

RoostersAreAwesome said:
Interesting! I was basing my guess about the one in your picture on these smokys from these websites: View attachment 4011636
https://www.angelfire.com/ga/huntleyloft/smokey.html

View attachment 4011637 https://www.taubensell.de/blue_is_not_blue.htm

The one in my picture was confusing me because it’s lighter gray than most of the other pictures I’ve been looking at.

What is the “intense” color you mentioned?

Also, what do you think about this one from my local flock? I was thinking possibly a sooty, but maybe it’s just a regular check who I’m putting too much thought into. View attachment 4011638

One more question… these two ferals have the dirty gene, correct?View attachment 4011639(I’m 90% sure about this one)
View attachment 4011641(Less sure about this one…)

Silver bar means blue/black bar with the Dilute gene. Which is recessive sex-linked. On red, Dilute makes yellow. Intense is just another way of saying not-dilute. It should be impossible to produce Intense offspring from Dilute parents which is why I hope maybe one of them is actually not Dilute and something weird so we could get more diversity? I don't know what "something weird" would mean though. It's just the guy we bought them from said they produce dark offspring sometimes despite the fact that they appear dilute. Maybe they're just throwing some very dark silver bars.
I'd say sooty check for that first guy, I saw a cool one recently (probably tcheck)

The first feral is definitely Dirty, second idk, aren't checks dark in general.

RoostersAreAwesome · Dec 21, 2024

Amer said:
Silver bar means blue/black bar with the Dilute gene. Which is recessive sex-linked. On red, Dilute makes yellow. Intense is just another way of saying not-dilute. It should be impossible to produce Intense offspring from Dilute parents which is why I hope maybe one of them is actually not Dilute and something weird so we could get more diversity? I don't know what "something weird" would mean though. It's just the guy we bought them from said they produce dark offspring sometimes despite the fact that they appear dilute. Maybe they're just throwing some very dark silver bars.
I'd say sooty check for that first guy, I saw a cool one recently (probably tcheck)View attachment 4011648
The first feral is definitely Dirty, second idk, aren't checks dark in general.

Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying! I saw this cool pigeon on instagram (seems to be hanging out with a feral flock but the body shape makes me think it’s domestic), and I was thinking it’s a mosaic?

Amer · Dec 21, 2024

RoostersAreAwesome said:
Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying! I saw this cool pigeon on instagram (seems to be hanging out with a feral flock but the body shape makes me think it’s domestic), and I was thinking it’s a mosaic?View attachment 4011666

Wow, that's cool, looks like an opal mosaic? I saw a mosaic homer at the show but I forgot to take a picture!