how do you get blue bars?
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If he has blue flecks on him, then yes, you can get blue offspring. If the hens are carrying the bar gene, then you can get more barred birds.
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Nope, as long as the male is carrying blue.
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Do you know the parents of the hens?
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Grizzle would work, but your babies would be grizzled in either blue or red.
Like I said, if any of the hens are carrying bar (that means one of her parents needed to be a bar or carrying bar), then you'll get some bars. I'm guessing the hens are checks?
Like I said, if any of the hens are carrying bar (that means one of her parents needed to be a bar or carrying bar), then you'll get some bars. I'm guessing the hens are checks?
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If you want blue bars from that red bar cock, your best bet is a blue bar hen.
If you use a checker pattern hen (any color), the count of youngsters with bar decreases and sometimes you may never get youngsters with bar (if the hen is homozygous for checker pattern) in that pairing.
If you use a red bar hen, you will mainly get red bars, your chance for getting blue bar again goes down but some offsprings will be blue bar (as your cock bird is carrying red and blue.) Those blue bars offsprings will be females.
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Red bar cock (carrying blue) x red check hen (pure for check):
-All sons will be red checks. Half of them will be pure red and half will be carrying blue.
-Half of the daughters will be blue checks and half of them will be red checks.
-All offspring will be checked but they will carry the bar gene.
Red bar cock (carrying blue) x red check hen (carrying bar):
- All sons will be red, half of them carrying blue and half pure red.
- Half of the daughters will be blue, and half will be red.
- Half of the offspring (of either sex) will be bars, and half will be checks (of either sex)
-All sons will be red checks. Half of them will be pure red and half will be carrying blue.
-Half of the daughters will be blue checks and half of them will be red checks.
-All offspring will be checked but they will carry the bar gene.
Red bar cock (carrying blue) x red check hen (carrying bar):
- All sons will be red, half of them carrying blue and half pure red.
- Half of the daughters will be blue, and half will be red.
- Half of the offspring (of either sex) will be bars, and half will be checks (of either sex)
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By far, the easiest route would be to get a barred hen to mate him with. BUT the second easiest is to mate one of his daughters back to him 
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Just out of curiousity, since blue bars are one of the most common in pigeons including homers, is it because this cock bird is special that you don't want to go away from his gene pool ?
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