Mealies

[Guest beautyhomer]

All depends on the hen he is paired to

 

homozygos red cock x red hen = homozygos red cocks + red hens

homozygos red cock x blue hen = heterozygos red cocks + red hens

heterozygos red cock x red hen = homozygos +heterozygos red cocks

                                                red hens + blue hens

heterozygos red cock x blue hen = heterozygos red cocks + blue cocks

                                                 red hens + blue hens

 

hope this helps,Andrew

[Diamond dave]

Beauty Homer

 

Thanks very much for the info. All extremely helpful!!

[symbro]

yes that was a very good explanation beautyhomer.  i wish everyone could get on the same page with what we call bird colours.  Red-Ash gets butchered everywhere.  expecially when people call it silver... since silver is a blue showing dilute.  :*)  i wasnt even sure what people where talking about on this thread at first when they were saying mealy...

[Guest beautyhomer]

Agree with you on the silver.Show Racer people go on about silver mealies as if they are a colour when it is impossible to have silver and mealy together on one bird.A dilute mealy is a cream bar.But then they call Recessive Opal Checker birds Mosaics ???

I think a lot of confusion with ash red occurs when people consider red check and mealy as two seperate colours when they are one colour BUT two different patterns.If we called them red check and red bar it might be easier to understand

[symbro]

yes i call the red ashes- red bar and red check (light check and dark check even) and the dilute reds i call yellow.  then you have the recessive reds that confuse the whole situtuation since recessive red can cover any true colour.  then you have the double indigo which looks like red ash.  which is really blue... lol no wonder why people get so confused.

[Guest cloudview]

the 2  ybs   off the   pair  of blues   of  reddish   colour   sound to me  like   the  colour   mosiac   niether blue or mealy  sort in between

[Guest beautyhomer]

YOU CANNOT SELECTIVELY BREED MOSAICS,THEY ARE A GENETIC FLUKE.CANNOT IMAGINE THE ODDS ON GETTING TWO IN THE SAME NEST.

THINK YOU ARE CONFUSING THEM WITH OPALS OR INDIGOS