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WELL DONE VINNIE M8!

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Thought this article may be of interest to somehttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif The Opal Factor Breeding reds from two blues is genetic impossibility, but there are fanciers who claim to have done it. The following should explain the situation. Sometimes a blue pair will produce a young cock which looks somewhat like a red check but is actually an opal. If you compare the opal check with a true red check you will notice a difference. Also the opal will not have black flecks as seen in some red checks. The opal colour is also found in hens and is usually a soft powder blue and there is no dark bar on the tail. Racing ability does not seem to be affected. On looking through past racing records I note that an opal cock won the 320 mile race for me in 1982. Further down the race result sheet was another opal cock owned by someone else. The opal colour in hens certainly enhances the show potential. I had a beautiful opal hen that won many best in show awards. Opal is a recessive colour. When mated to blues or blacks, only blue and black progeny will result. The young will carry the opal factor and when mated together will give opals of both sexes. It is an interesting colour for experimentation. A blue pair could produce reds if there has has been some hanky-panky. My birds never do that! Black Flecks You will have noticed that some red cocks have black flecks on their feathers, mostly wings and tail, and these flecks increase with each moult. The explanation is quite simple and has to do with X and Y chromosomes and whether or not there were blues in the ancestory. Black flecks means these red cocks are carrying the factor for blue colour. The business of X and Y chromosomes is more complex and we will leave that to be discussed under another heading. You may have noticed too that hens don't get these black flecks. If they do have flecks, they will be brown. Its all about sex-linkage and those X and Y chromosomes again. PairingYoung Birds Produced COCK X HEN COCK HEN BLUE X BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE X MEALY MEALY BLUE BLUE X BL CHQ BLUE/BL CHQ BLUE/BL CHQ BLUE X RED MEALY/RED BLUE/BL CHQ MEALY X BLUE BLUE/MEALY BLUE/MEALY MEALY X MEALY MEALY BLUE/MEALY MEALY X BL CHQ MEALY/RED/BLUE MEALY/RED/BLUE BLUE CHQ BLUE CHQ MEALY X RED MEALY/RED MEALY/RED/BLUE/BL CHQ BL CHQ X BLUE BLUE/ BL CHQ BLUE/ BL CHQ BL CHQ X MEALY MEALY/RED BLUE/ BL CHQ BL CHQ X BL CHQ BLUE/ BL CHQ BLUE/ BL CHQ BL CHQ X RED MEALY/ RED BLUE/ BL CHQ RED X BLUE BLUE/BL CHQ/RED BLUE/BL CHQ/RED/MEALY MEALY RED X MEALY MEALY/ RED MEALY/RED/BLUE/BL CHQ RED X BL CHQ BLUE/BL CHQ/RED BLUE/BL CHQ/RED/MEALY MEALY/RED RED X RED MEALY/ RED MEALY/RED/BLUE/BL CHQ Unfortunately the spacing did not print out as typedhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif So have attempted to colour codehttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif

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I find that as the winter sets in, it is pitch black before I head off to work, and the same when I get home, so the lights for me are idealhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif

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I was led to believe that by keeping lights on for a period of time during the night actually aided the moulthttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif how ever I may be wronghttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif

Now that we are fastly approaching the dark mornings and nights, I just think to myself what a blessing it is to have lights in all my loft sections, I don,t know how fanciers without these manage. Do you have lights? if not, what do you do during the winter time, do you have to change your routine? If you have lights, what other advantages do you think they offer? THANK YOUhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif

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Sorry to hear of your sad news lads, thinking of you at this difficult time.

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