Pigeon Fanciers

[Mary Of Exeter]

Your Lahores are beautiful!
Now I have some questions to ask

The cream cock you have mated to the khaki hen, what color was his father?
I can tell you what colors the babies can be, if I knew that

Also, nuns and capuchines are fine as parents. The hoods on capuchines normally aren't that big, so they shouldn't get in the way too much. I've had nuns before, and they're beautiful. Cute little birds too

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

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I know some people who have frillbacks. I don't know about white ones, but I'll check for you

What's your name on Pigeon-Talk? Also, thank you for the comments

 

[melleo]

Hi Becky
I go by g-ma but I'm what you call a lurker
I read and learn alot but don't normally post

I do have a question
We have our frillbacks and I'm having a time keeping them clean
They are white and I want them to be as white as possible
Would it hurt their feet to make their floor from welded wire?

plus if I sneak in a pair of Lahores I'd like to keep them as clean as possible too lol

There isn't much info on Lahore raising is there. Are they a rare pigeon?
Thanks
Melia

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Lahores aren't really necessarily rare, but they are uncommon.
It wouldn't hurt them to have a wire floor. What kind of loft or cage do you keep them in? Making a thick bedding of wood shavings, pine needles, or straw will help absorb the moisture from the droppings and in turn, keep the feathers clean. Turn the bedding over and sorta fluff it up every day to keep the droppings moved around (helps dry it too) and so clean bedding from underneath can come up.
That's of course, if you decide not to use a wire bottom. Either way is fine. If you have them in a loft, you could make the sections under the perches wire so they fall to the ground. Providing baths at least once a week will help keep them clean as well.

 

[Willjg]

Hey there!

The Lahores were so hard for me to find honestly....Its like you can find just about any other breed, but finding good Lahores is nearly impossible!

About the Cream Cock and The Khaki hen....
The Cream cock's mother was cream----and the father was Lavender (altho he looked more blue to me, the darker lavender I guess you would call it). The Cream cock was the only baby they had that color, all of his siblings were Lavender.

So now you have me dying to know what this Cream and Khaki pair will have in their babies???

Take Care,
Bill.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Well let's start with the Cream cock.

Dad was Lavender (which in lahores is technically blue, with spread to make it black, and milky to make it that pretty lavender color).
Mom was cream which is technically dilute ash-red (in this case, she had the spread gene if her wings were a solid color instead of barred or checked. It's possible she could have milky as well, I don't know. But that doesn't matter a whole lot right now, LOL)

So if you dissect that, you have a blue cock over a ash-red hen. That's a sex-linked mating. So all your ash-reds (in this case, looking cream) would be boys, and all blues (in this case lavender) would be girls

Not really all that important, but I just thought you might want to know, if you didn't already, haha.

But since his dad was blue, that means this Cream boy is carrying blue as well.
Khaki is dilute brown. Brown is recessive to both ash-red and blue.

So here's what you should expect:
Sons: 50% Blues that carry Brown, 50% Ash Reds that carry Blue
Daughters: 50% Blues, 50% Ash Reds

Since both parents are dilute, all babies will be as well. So the blues will be silver (some call it 'dun'), and all reds will be cream like daddy. Also, dad has two genes for spread, so all the babies will have that as well, giving you solid colored wings.

Going even further into this genetics stuff (I'm sure you guys are lost by now, LOL), your Cream cock is also a milky, if he looks like mom. Plus, mom herself looks like a milky anyways, and two milkies paired together, makes a bunch of milky babies! So since he has two genes for it (they need two genes for it to show, cause it's a recessive gene), then all his babies will carry the gene as well. UNLESS the bird he is paired with, carries it as well. Then you can get some more of those cream birds and/or lavenders. So half light babies, and half darker babies.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

For a condensed version of all that explaining, here's what you'll see the babies looking like.

Sons: 25% Duns (dilute black), 25% Lavenders (milky dun), 25% Yellow (dilute spread ash-red), 25% Cream (milky cream)

Daughters: Ditto to the sons.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Oneeee more thing, would it be okay if I were to post the picture of your cream bird, on a genetics group to ask what they think of the color? I've never seen a Lahore that color, and it's interesting to me. I'm just a big color genetics nerd

I like figuring out what makes up all these wacky colored birds.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

I just got a kit of solid white German Owls! I'm so excited. Somebody has already started to make a nest. These are my first step towards my wedding pigeon business. These will be my display birds, not for release.

 

[melleo]

I had to find a picture of your german owls
They are cute I never considered using them
I guess I'm kinda following the usual displays of
frillbacks and fantails.


Good luck with your business
We are just getting started too
Melia