Pigeon Adventures

[RoostersAreAwesome]

A few days ago mom washed the pigeons and I was like "are you watching Halmarks with the pigeons?" "They like Halmark" she said.View attachment 4011841View attachment 4011842View attachment 4011843View attachment 4011845

Today she forced us to watch them again and I was like, well, why aren't the pigeons here??
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This is the oddly colored hen View attachment 4011848
I wonder if she's a qualmond of some kind or something View attachment 4011853View attachment 4011852
She just took off and flew around the room. I thought she was too fat to fly well but I guess she's mostly fluff and muscle

That’s so cute!!

It’s funny how the first picture implies that she washed them in the washing machine.

 

[Amer]

That’s so cute!!

It’s funny how the first picture implies that she washed them in the washing machine.

Oh, haha! I didn't even notice that!

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I'm not sure if it's Opal it's just a lot of the pigeons at the show were

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Waldo Pigeon Show 2024

• Amer
• Dec 21, 2024
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Pigeon Show on the Winter Solstice!

Those are some pretty cool colors! My favorites are the ones labeled as opal, though I’m still not entirely sure what opal is. Is it sort of like bronzing?

 

[Amer]

Those are some pretty cool colors! My favorites are the ones labeled as opal, though I’m still not entirely sure what opal is. Is it sort of like bronzing?

There's dominant and recessive opal and they are weird dilutions like Andalusian, but I don't really understand them either.
For the roller labeled as opal, the judge said it might be reduced, which makes me even more confused. Opal and reduced are kind of similar.

 

[Amer]

I don't believe Isabel is actually a yellow bar. On the Facebook page, they said she might be Opal? Or almond or qualmond. I'm hoping qualmond (and I was personally suspecting this) because unlike the other mentioned genes it's not lethal in the homozygous form.

 

[Amer]

Found a picture of the mosaic that was at that show

on Facebook

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Found a picture of the mosaic that was at that showView attachment 4012394View attachment 4012395 on Facebook

Nice! I was doing some research on mosaics last night and found out that the term is often used to refer to a few different things, such as chimeras. I was wondering if you knew how to tell the difference between mosaics and chimeras?

 

[Amer]

Nice! I was doing some research on mosaics last night and found out that the term is often used to refer to a few different things, such as chimeras. I was wondering if you knew how to tell the difference between mosaics and chimeras?

No, I don't, I get really confused by those terms too because to me they mean the same thing: a bird with two sets of dna fused into one (like a twin that absorbed the other).

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Hey Amer, do you know what this color is called?

 

[Amer]

Hey Amer, do you know what this color is called? I’ve seen it online three times now (that I can remember), once on a roller pigeon, once on an unknown breed (looked exactly like a roller except with a small crest and lightly feathered feet), and once on a rescued feral(!)View attachment 4013453

It might be the pencil gene?