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Guest mick bowler
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Can you breed a chequer from 2 blues?

 

Can you breed a blue bar from 2 chequers?

 

:)

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Hi Mick.I think this lots about right mate,but there's always one that catches you out.

 

Blue x Blue = Blue cocks - Blue hens

Blue x Mealy = Mealy cocks - Blue hens

Blue x Blue Cq = Blue, Blue Cheq cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Blue x Red = Mealy, Red cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Mealy x Blue = Blue, Mealy cocks - Blue, Mealy hens

Mealy x Mealy = Mealy cocks - Blue, Mealy hens

Mealy x Blue = Mealy, Red, Blue cocks - Mealy, Red Blue hens

Cheq x Cheq = Blue Cheq cocks - Blue Cheq hens

Mealy x Red = Mealy, Red cocks - Mealy, Red, Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Blue Cheq x Blue = Blue, Blue Cheq cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Blue Cheq x Mealy = Mealy, Red cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Blue Cheq x Blue Cq = Blue, Blue Cheq cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Blue Cheq x Red = Mealy, Red cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Red x Blue = Blue, Blue Cheq, Red, Mealy cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq, Red, Mealy hens

Red x Mealy = Mealy, Red cocks - Mealy, Red, Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Red x Blue Cheq = Blue, Blue Cheq, Red Mealy cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq, Mealy, Red hens

Red x Red = Mealy, Red cocks - Mealy, Red, Blue, Blue Cheq hens

 

Lindsay

Guest mick bowler
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Cheers Lindsay. I think it answers my question! :emoticon-0137-clapping:

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Grizzles to gay pied breed nice grizzles however i'm with archie on this blue to grizzle although there be more blues than grizzles but they do look nicer :) Pied variations are just feathers lacking pigment :)

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Why do you say this Fifer? Only Curiosity.

out of a book giving colours, and it brings those light blue grizzles

 

I see. Cheers. I've 2 grizzles in the loft for the first time in 20 odd years that is why i was asking.

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I see. Cheers. I've 2 grizzles in the loft for the first time in 20 odd years that is why i was asking.

 

I think John it was to get the blue grizzles, was the main thing

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the thing with grizzles if you pair them together you get dilute whites ( grizzles with very little colour ) and if you continue down this path you'l end up with whites , so its better to pair lighter grizzles back to full colours , if you want two grizzles together there better from darker coloured grizzles so as not to end up with too much white :)

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as for the can question asked I've had light chequers from 2 blue bars before it all depends on what they've been bred from , if was from a pure blue barred family i'd say not possible, although two blue bars one carrying spread can breed blacks

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The Ck of the pair i have is 95% white, with black tips to his Flights and Tail. The hen i had in mind for him is a Blue Ch, what is this pair liable to produce Colour wise i mean?

 

The Hen is a "normal" grizzle with plenty of black pattern over white, this hen is going to a Blue Ck.

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you'l get either cheq pied or dark grizzles as the colour is dark on the grizzle , with most ybs from grizzles you'l get one light other darker

other pair could breed a variety of colours Blues , blue pieds dark grizzles , blue grizzle :)

Guest mick bowler
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as for the can question asked I've had light chequers from 2 blue bars before it all depends on what they've been bred from , if was from a pure blue barred family i'd say not possible, although two blue bars one carrying spread can breed blacks

 

 

I have a blue hen bred from 2 chequers. Now i bred some late ones from this blue paired to another blue (bred from 2 blues), never took too much notice until i went to pair them late ones up recently and noticed one of them was a cheq. Now i have just checked my book and there was no other cheqs in the section when i bred these late ones, i thought at first a cheq cock must of jumped the hen first, but now just looking like a throw back to its grandparents, if this is possible?

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you'l get either cheq pied or dark grizzles as the colour is dark on the grizzle , with most ybs from grizzles you'l get one light other darker

other pair could breed a variety of colours Blues , blue pieds dark grizzles , blue grizzle :)

 

Good man, Cheers.

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I have a blue hen bred from 2 chequers. Now i bred some late ones from this blue paired to another blue (bred from 2 blues), never took too much notice until i went to pair them late ones up recently and noticed one of them was a cheq. Now i have just checked my book and there was no other cheqs in the section when i bred these late ones, i thought at first a cheq cock must of jumped the hen first, but now just looking like a throw back to its grandparents, if this is possible?

I'd go with that as the paternation can be carried recessive just like spread can be carried but not seen , so although the patern / colour breeding chart accounts for full colours theres always exception to the rules as throw backs can occur :) such as two blues breeding a ash pigeon :)

Guest mick bowler
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I'd go with that as the paternation can be carried recessive just like spread can be carried but not seen , so although the patern / colour breeding chart accounts for full colours theres always exception to the rules as throw backs can occur :) such as two blues breeding a ash pigeon :)

 

Cheers! Also just noticed that there was 3 cheqs and 1 blue from the 2 pairs i had late ones from, so has to be a throw back, even if i had mixed rings up, one still had to be a cheq.

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I paired nest brother & sister together last season, both pencil blue pigeons. 3 out of 4 Youngsters were Chocolate/recessive red. The one i've got left moulted out and is 70% white now.

Guest youngboy
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last year i out a cheq to a blue and got a blue and a dark cheq pied

 

also put a blue and cheq together and got smokey blue and a cheq pied

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Cheers! Also just noticed that there was 3 cheqs and 1 blue from the 2 pairs i had late ones from, so has to be a throw back, even if i had mixed rings up, one still had to be a cheq.

obviously been more dominate in the gene pool causing the throw backs , i usualy find within my old family that when i got full colours from grizzles these tended to be good birds , so i like throw backs :)

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Hi Mick.I think this lots about right mate,but there's always one that catches you out.

 

Blue x Blue = Blue cocks - Blue hens

Blue x Mealy = Mealy cocks - Blue hens

Blue x Blue Cq = Blue, Blue Cheq cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Blue x Red = Mealy, Red cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Mealy x Blue = Blue, Mealy cocks - Blue, Mealy hens

Mealy x Mealy = Mealy cocks - Blue, Mealy hens

Mealy x Blue = Mealy, Red, Blue cocks - Mealy, Red Blue hens

Cheq x Cheq = Blue Cheq cocks - Blue Cheq hens

Mealy x Red = Mealy, Red cocks - Mealy, Red, Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Blue Cheq x Blue = Blue, Blue Cheq cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Blue Cheq x Mealy = Mealy, Red cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Blue Cheq x Blue Cq = Blue, Blue Cheq cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Blue Cheq x Red = Mealy, Red cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Red x Blue = Blue, Blue Cheq, Red, Mealy cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq, Red, Mealy hens

Red x Mealy = Mealy, Red cocks - Mealy, Red, Blue, Blue Cheq hens

Red x Blue Cheq = Blue, Blue Cheq, Red Mealy cocks - Blue, Blue Cheq, Mealy, Red hens

Red x Red = Mealy, Red cocks - Mealy, Red, Blue, Blue Cheq hens

 

Lindsay

 

where do slateys/schailes come from or how are they bred?

Guest mick bowler
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where do slateys/schailes come from or how are they bred?

 

 

They come from WLG and you should know how they bred by now! :emoticon-0136-giggle:

Guest beautyhomer
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chequer is dominant over bar so you will never breed a cheq from 2 blues.However it is possible to breed blue bars from a pair of chequers.

Spread is also dominant so it cannot be carried,if a blue pigeon has the spread gene it must express it and therefore be black.

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