SwampPrincessChick
Crowing
Those grizzled pigeons are beautiful! I have never understood genetics, but I am trying to get better at it.Grizzle basically produces a salt and pepper pattern of depigmentation on the feathers. Even on my grizzles that appear to have dark flight or tail feathers, the pigment reduces closer to the feather shaft so they are not fully colored. The heterozygous form produces various amounts of depigmentation, while homozygous form of grizzle produces a mostly white bird. When you breed grizzle to grizzle the babies almost always get lighter and lighter.
This pair consists of a heterozygous grizzle hen, and homozygous grizzle cock.