Strange if you ask me

Ray;

Hope this helps. I got it from

http://www.angelfire.com/ga/huntleyloft/ember.html

The red should turn to a blue after its first moult.




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I have a dark chequer yb this year and its flights and sides were red, however as they are on darkness and moulting now its a chequer with no red. So I have one like it this year?

ive a yb this year which is a chequer, its got a tinge of red on its feathers but i think the new feathers that asre growing are normal/blue, the birds nestmate is a red cheq, and so is the mother of them..........

I will take a picture of mine today and post it, the nest pair are the same, and still have a fair bit of red in them. the mother is a bronze so maybe its coming from there.

ive got a YB cock thats a blue chequer that has bronze coulour on some of the secondary feathers, parents a blue and a blue chequer

ive got a blue cheq with a white head and white flights, strange looking bird..............dont know how you would describe it

F***ed

some might call it a pied maybe................?

THIS IS MY RED BIRD THATS A CHEQUER REALLY..

He was much reder than now, but because hes on darkness you can see the wing upper has totally moulted and its a chequer underneath.

We call these bronzed, these are common from Van Den Bosche Strains.
I'll take some pics next time I go to the allotments.

ive been feeding a fanciers birds in the next strret because hes gone away for the week, i noticed one of his 2012 ybs is a blue bar, but the bars are white like a grizzle.........

never seen this before....

if anyone wants any information on colour of the homing pigeon go to RON HUNTLEY's rare colour homing pigeon pigment colour or genetic subject then click on whatever colour you are looking for great reading george

yes your right there Gaz that birds mother is a bronze and its a van den boushe. Well spotted.

That's a trait that goes back to the old original families.
It's not really a common occurrence and they do usually make good birds for some reason.