What colour is my Lahore?

[Northwest_Wannabe]

I gotta say, this has been an incredibly fun genetic challenge for me haha. You have two assumingly red parents, that have made 1. leaky red bar, 2. dark red checker, and 3. what almost looks like a bronze, indigo or something odd cause it's got blue wings tips! Crazy...

Before I go tossing out possibilities and my assumptions and guesses, are there any other birds in the loft that could be possible parents? Pigeons are monogamous but I have a few cockbirds who are sneaky and like to expand their gene pool ;D I've also had hens steal nests, how or why I have no idea but still xD

 

[Old_Strain_Lover]

I had an odd colour hatch from my pair of red Lahores this spring. Can someone help me identify what this colour would be called? It’s a lighter version of red and it is a male so I was thinking dilute, but his eyes aren’t red. Is it ash red, yellow? Are those colours even connected?

It looks like it could be an ash red with the milky factor. I know that milky is pretty common in Lahores because they use it to achieve the lavenders... so my guess is ash red milky. I suppose it means that both of the parents are carrying it (just neither one shows it).

 

[Lunadell]

I gotta say, this has been an incredibly fun genetic challenge for me haha. You have two assumingly red parents, that have made 1. leaky red bar, 2. dark red checker, and 3. what almost looks like a bronze, indigo or something odd cause it's got blue wings tips! Crazy...

Before I go tossing out possibilities and my assumptions and guesses, are there any other birds in the loft that could be possible parents? Pigeons are monogamous but I have a few cockbirds who are sneaky and like to expand their gene pool ;D I've also had hens steal nests, how or why I have no idea but still xD

I keep my pigeons with bantam chickens. A pair of pigeons hatched out chicken chicks once. They were quite confused with the noisy babies that kept escaping the nest. I had to bring them inside and brood them artificially.

As far as other pigeons, I just had two pair of red Lahores. An older pair (which passed away this spring) their male offspring and an unrelated female. Those are the two in the picture. The older pair once had a red bar chick but I never got pictures of it. There is something funky definitely going on with their genetics. I bought the four birds last summer from a breeder. She also breeds black Lahores, though I didn’t see any unusual colours in her coop like the ones I’m seeing. Perhaps she sold the pairs because they were throwing strange offspring? Unfortunately I didn’t keep her contact info.
As far as blue wing tips, they are mostly white with pink edges, or pinkish with red edges (depending on the bird). I think the lighting makes them look blue. I know that is a show disqualifier but I am not showing them. I just like keeping pretty birds! There isn’t any blue visible on the birds as far as I can tell.

 

[Lunadell]

Oh, I do see what you mean by the one with blue wing tips. There was natural light (cool tone) coming in through a window on the birds left while I had warm artificial light above. It caught the wing tips and the very edge of the left side of his/her head and made it look kind of a grayish brown. Sorry I don’t have better pics of those two.