silver hens

[ChrisMaidment08]

i dont know anyone who would want to own um ;D ;D

[OLDYELLOW]

with eyes like that bet there high flyers and good perfomers but dam they fugly must of hit every branch of the ugly tree  ;D ;D ;D ;D

[ChrisMaidment08]

its amazeing how blinkered we as racer owners are on fancy birds theres some wierd ones about ;)

[OLDYELLOW]

aye plenty of weird fanciers about Chris   ;D ;D ;D ;D

[ChrisMaidment08]

;) ;D ;Ddid not want to embaress you be useing youer name ;D ;D ;D

[Glassfeather]

How about these, the strangest pigeons I have ever seen, Stargard shakers, the neck wobbles back and forth:

 

 

[ChrisMaidment08]

it will without scaffolding

[white logan]

A lot of the fancy breeds are not to everybodys liking John!

 

hmmmmmm , no further comment , UGLY !

 

your having a laugh now they are computor enhanced imagies surely ! , whatever you guys are smoking i think you,ve had enough  :-/

[white logan]

They are actually derived from a flying breed, the Budapest tumbler, tiny little birds, I don't know of anyone who flies these.

 

i dont wish to "knock" your birds mate but i have a question for you , do you feed those ugly little buggers with a catapult ?

[Glassfeather]

No they are for real.

 

 

 

[Glassfeather]

 

i dont wish to "knock" your birds mate but i have a question for you , do you feed those ugly little buggers with a catapult ?

 

They're not mine, I don't keep them, I'm just showing you some of the breeds out there.

 

[pjc]

just looked at the last picture and it made me choke on me tea!

at least the birds not as ugly as Andy in the background!  ;D ;D ;D

[white logan]

 

They're not mine, I don't keep them, I'm just showing you some of the breeds out there.

 

thanks for taking the time mate , i appreciate your efforts , but could we see some nice pigeons now

[Glassfeather]

How about these?

 

 

 

[white logan]

How about these?

 

 

 

 

now the mealy is a lot better looking , dont know what the others are

[pjc]

theres your mealy pic john, shame the bars crap!

[Glassfeather]

Egyptian Swift, and Lucerne Gold Collar.

[white logan]

theres your mealy pic john, shame the bars crap!

 

hey if you have any like him phil post them up here , in fact i will take all that sort of crap off you and save any further embarasment ,  8)

[pjc]

told you i'll send you some more pics tomorrow.

[white logan]

told you i'll send you some more pics tomorrow.

 

thanks phil , so do you have any pigeons like the mealy in the picture , them are exactly the sort i want (droool)

[jakjak]

 

The late great Alf Baker was allways known for putting silvers into the stock loft,cant personally see how the colour of a bird would make it any better for breeding,perhaps it was because he knew his family of birds so well that the silvers would allways breed well.

 

so this is where I am going wrong! lol

I have a cracking silver alf baker ck, and he breeds silver hens for fun!! no cocks tho :-/

[Guest Freebird]

In gene terms a silver is a dilute blue be it bar or chequer as in Old yellows bird. You can see the dilution better in the flights. I know racing guys call some of their dilute mealy's silvers as well. As to Wiley's question, It must come from when someone had a champion dilute or something like that who's dilute offspring were virtually guaranteed winners so think it was something else in the genetics of the bird but was visibly detectable because it shared it's place ( sorry don't know the technical jargon for this ) with dilute. Therefore every dilute youngster had this special ( non colour ) trait in that family. So it's not the colour but whatever else was passed on but identifiable by being dilute.

[jimmy white]

very interesting topic on silvers etc i often wonder how louela selectively breed  these yellows , in there hundreds , makes one wonder that by  selective breeding [ie going by genes etc] you must not only be able to breed selective colours but also selective traits i,e in racing pigeons , very very interesting indeed

also love the pics of glassfeathers , some weird and wonderfull breeds and really stunning pictures  

[Wiley]

very interesting topic on silvers etc i often wonder how louela selectively breed  these yellows , in there hundreds , makes one wonder that by  selective breeding [ie going by genes etc] you must not only be able to breed selective colours but also selective traits i,e in racing pigeons , very very interesting indeed

also love the pics of glassfeathers , some weird and wonderfull breeds and really stunning pictures  

 

was very interesting jimmy topic, but to add another thing to the twist, the fanciers who used to stock silver hens, the silver hens very rarely bred silvers, however the normal coloured offspring such as normal blue or a cheq used to be brillant birds out of the great silver hens.

[fred x]

silver hen

 

 

YES !! Thats is a Silver, And very Nice to.  M8