The top 3 are main colors red , blue , brown from most dominant to less dominant. The bird will always show the most dominant color . So the black father is Carrying the spread gene that makes him look black but he is really a blue bird .....the cock birds carry 2 spots for color and he will show the most dominant color but still carry the other color and will pass it to his offsprings the cock also determines the offsprings sex .the hens carry one spot for color and will always pass that color to the cock offsprings. The almond hen might be red with the diluted gene and u will only get her color if u mate 2 diluted birds together...so pretty much the blue specs are from the father having blue /black and the red is from the mother...but then again sometimes it can skip Generation and pop up 5 generations in .... that baby might throw u blue bars 😂
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Thank you for the info! I appreciate it very much. The black spread cock bird is one of my birds that I bred. His father was black and didn’t carry any blue in him because I have been breeding my blacks since 2010. The same line and didn’t mate them with any other colors. Mostly I have been inbreeding my blacks but never mixed them with any other colors especially blue. The mother of the Black spread was a classic almond and I got her from a good friend of mine who passed away a couple of years ago so I don’t know the mother’s background.
Recently I paired this black spread with one of my Afghan whitetail pigeons (homing pigeon) and I got this dilute-looking almond or as you say ash red.
The Afghan black homing pigeon is also one of my lines and I have had them over 10 years and never mixed them with any other colors either. Because they only come in black and they can’t be mixed because you’ll ruin the breed of the Afghan blackbird, however, I decided to pair it with my black spread almond cock in hopes of getting a classic almond so based on what you’re telling me it’s very weird that I got this dilute color as a matter fact it’s very interesting to me that they produced me such a color.
What can I do to get a classic almond? I heard of you pair an almond with a kite or black they’ll produce classic almonds but that didn’t work and I’m not looking for any blue bars out of my almonds lol
I recently imported some NL blue bars that are designed to race. ☺ but they’re still in quarantine.