Breeding for Colors and white birds

I have posted on http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/index.php the sale of the barless blues, barless browns and blacks. Not is the time to decide on color matings for next year. Surprisingly there has been a number of request for the barless blues. There was one request for either a brown with spread or a dilute black. Unfortunately, I have a pair of blacks that throw a dilute black (dun) once in a while, but they always get lost in training. In the browns, I have nothing other than barless at the moment.

Brown/Khaki is the most recessive of the three color groups that also include black/blue, and red/ash. My brown is a hen and therefor, no matter what I mate her to, it will not be brown as the color gene is carried on the sex chromosome which the hen has only one, she gets from her father and the cock gets two, one from each parent. Since the hen has only one, quite simply "she is what she is". Now, the only way to get the brown back is to mate her to a direct son. Any son of hers will carry both the gene for black/blue and brown/khaki. The hen will either pass on the brown/khaki gene to a son, or she will pass on the sex chromosome which will produce a hen and that hen. The result will be; 1/4th black/blue hens, 1/4th brown/khaki hens, 1/4th black/blue cocks that also carry the brown/khaki gene and finally 1/4th brown/khaki sons which are homozygous for the brown/khaki gene. For these later sons, they will ALWAYS produce a brown/khaki hen regardless to whom they are mated.

If anyone is interested, I will still be setting orders for barless blues, possibly barless browns, blacks and recessive reds. Still in the works are recessive yellows. You can reach me at domanskifamilyloft@dishmail.net