rearing/retaing white pigeons

[santoferris]

I have a white male and coloured female the off spring are bad looking how do i retain a white strain

[bigbird]

Self white birds when mated togeather make for totally white birds. If you start with anything less, you will always have color showing up along the line. I have seen two white birds (not self whites) produce color in the young. So you can keep trying with your color and white bird, mating the most white to the most white, but color will remain somewhere. Good luck,

[John Verburg]

You can also mate a young hen back to her father. Since this young hen will have half of her father's genes, their young may be all white or get very close. Then mate a young hen from these two back to the father, and pretty soon you will get back to all white birds, and they will be white from the same genetic background.

[pigeonhero]

if i have a bird the is mostly gray and some spots of black with a white feather going down each one of it's wings and if it breeds with another pigeon that is mostly brown and a little white what will the offspring look like and if i use the first pigeon with the white on it's wings and it breed with a pigeon that is all gray what will that offspring look like please i need to know because my three pigeons are gonna start breeding this spring please help

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luke the pigeon man kerttu

[bigbird]

Breeding birds for color is a difficult task. The outcome is difficult to predict.
A young bird may have the mothers coloring, or the fathers coloring, or some other coloring hidden the the mothers or fathers genes. What ever color they come out, just be sure to love them. They are all beautiful.

[ONEEYEPIGEON]

I have all differnt color pigeons But one pair i have are all white and all the young they have raised so far have been white ,What type pigeons do you think these are ? Thanks Walt

[bigbird]

Pure white pigeons are called self-whites. Self whites are not found in all pigeon varieties. Your self whites could be any variety. It is not their color but what they look like. What do your birds look like
Walt?

[ONEEYEPIGEON]

BigBird My white's are really big birds big breast i think the man that i got them from say they where Kings does that sound right? thanks Carl . Walt