color charts

[chris purvis]

does anyone know if there is a website that will show the colors of newborn pigeons, like what color you will get if you mix this color with that color.

[Jerry]

Chris,
Pigeon genetics can be a very complicated thing. Much more complicated than the information you can glean from a post. There is not, to my knowledge, any color predictor as simple as saying color A x color B = color C. There are all the genetic color factors of A & B's parents and a lot of other aspects of genetics to take into consideration, not to mention sex linked properties. Get yourself a simple (not a lot of technical jargon at this point) and start reading, reading, reading. It can get very involved, but if you take it slowly and have an understanding of the terminology you can begin to make some sense of it all. I'm still amazed at the colors that can come from a particular mated pair from several rounds over the course of a season. Good luck.

[Nanci]

http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/pigeongenetics/

http://www.angelfire.com/oh/raraavis/genetics.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ga/huntleyloft/Page1.html

http://www.apexcorp.com/~rmangile/Pigeons/GeneSymb.html

http://www.apexcorp.com/~rmangile/Pigeons/index.html

Here are a few web pages to get you started. I don't know of anywhere to find charts for all possible color combinations, but you can make your own for each potential pairing. I think the last link in this list will be the most helpful. It's fun to draw a color inheritance chart and then compare what you predicted with what the actual babies turn out to be. It's hard to start from scratch, though, becuase you don't know what your pair's parents looked like. Still, you can guess what they _could have_ been, and draw up several charts accordingly. If you look at the post entitled "Almond," you will also find links to two pigeon genetics yahoo groups.

Nanci

[WhiteWingsCa]

This has to be by far the best site I've seen http://www.angelfire.com/ga/huntleyloft/

Pour yourself a coffee or large glass of water (juice, whatever ), and plan to spend a lot of time reading.

It's fascinating!

[re lee]

Joe Quins notebook can help. You can get it at say foys . seigals and other pigeon supply places. It covers seceral colors. And sex link matings resessive genes ect. It came out say 1979 or 78. And then has been updated. Pigeons come in many colors. And cock birds carry both genes. where the hen will not. So a split bird should be a cock for color. Light downed young birds will be of a soft color silver brown cream ect. Other colors will be a heavyer down. And of course a horn beak will be a light color. dark skin and beak will be of blue. black color family.