Pigeon Talk

[backyard pigeons]

I think the easiest way to remember sex linked in pigeons is if the female is a more dominant color than the male, you’ll know as soon as you can tell the squabs color. Right?
Ash red >> blue >> brown.

And BP, I’m up to 14 with 3 eggs developing.

Nice! How many bands do you have left?

 

[CCUK]

The genetics side of things really blows my brain!

I hope that with these two I will get my wish for some colour! I'm really hoping she is a she. She is really cute and really easy to handle! Isn't it strange though that a feral pigeon that has never been handled is easier to handle than my loft raised pigeons that have been handled!

 

[backyard pigeons]

The genetics side of things really blows my brain! View attachment 1800797 I hope that with these two I will get my wish for some colour! I'm really hoping she is a she. She is really cute and really easy to handle! Isn't it strange though that a feral pigeon that has never been handled is easier to handle than my loft raised pigeons that have been handled!

If she is a she, will you pair her with the other new he? Or to your other birds to try to get more color that you can breed together?

 

[WVduckchick]

Nice! How many bands do you have left?

I have 4 left, I think that will do for the rest of this year.

 

[WVduckchick]

The genetics side of things really blows my brain! View attachment 1800797 I hope that with these two I will get my wish for some colour! I'm really hoping she is a she. She is really cute and really easy to handle! Isn't it strange though that a feral pigeon that has never been handled is easier to handle than my loft raised pigeons that have been handled!

Some of it is simple, some gets super complicated!
This is my favorite site on pigeon genetics. Try the Pigeonetics game.
https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/pigeons/

 

[Hokum Coco]

The genetics side of things really blows my brain!

Oh my I feel your pain. I have raised pigeons for years.
I have tried to understand genetics on more than one occasion.

"I GLAZE OVER" now at the mere mention of the subject.

 

[WVduckchick]

I just rely on @Pyxis for genetics questions.

 

[Serin]

I've gotten some new birds! Not pigeons, but well, neither were the chickens I saw up the thread so I think it's okay since this is the only part of the site I really talk in.

A pair of recessive pied budgies, I would love to breed them when they are old enough, they are Pepper (more white, male) and Piper (gray wings, female.)

The canaries I am rearing on formula are 21 days old and very grown up. They can fly and perch. The one on the left, Bumblebee, is a real problem child and while his three sisters(?) sit nicely together and cause no trouble he is always flying away or making a mess spattering his food all over.

 

[Hokum Coco]

"GOOD NEWS" one of my 3 missing pigeons made it back (not the one with the broken femur.)

 

[CCUK]

If she is a she, will you pair her with the other new he? Or to your other birds to try to get more color that you can breed together?

I'll just see what happens. I don't want split any of my pairings up. Apart from the brother/sister pair!