😁Thanks Adam!! And right??

I like the way you think!!! 🥰

Ahah 😆 agreed 💯

Thanks my friend!! How are wild boy’s babies doing?

@@RFRP got two coming up not ready to wean yet. Maybe 1-2 weeks. Did you get any out of the other pairs?

Nice! I have 4. 3 sound about the same age as yours and one is only a few days old.

Thanks for the great feedback!!

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Testing them via racing is the only true method

@@RFRP yup I agree 👍👍

That’s too funny! To be clear, the hypothesis is that the bird must be all blue and have all white toenails, so your white birds don’t need to worry about the pressure of being great breeders 😉

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Thanks my friend!!

Thanks for the additional details Kirby!! I did not know that about the Smokey factor-very interesting!! I need to study pigeon genetics more

@Robertson Family Racing Pigeons It's also worth mentioning that these funny ideas about color work the other way, too. Many breeders believe that certain colors automatically result in inferior performance as a result of possessing some sort of inherent weakness. Yellows and other dilutes are a common target of this ideology, but one rarely sees a good dilute largely because you rarely see them at all in the first place. We can apply this equally to Racers or Rollers. Now funnily enough, the old wife's tale on certain colors being inferior goes so far that when you DO see a good yellow, etc., the reaction of many people is that you somehow just broke the rules by making the good yellow or whatever completely by design by creating it from mostly Blue Bars or Blue Checks. Somehow, when you mix the colors all up, there's an allegation that the color's natural inherent weakness now suddenly no longer exists because "you cheated by mating that yellow to your blue bars!" LOL. The reality, of course, is that it's all about selection. Given enough time and patience, we can make our birds be whatever we desire them to be. We can make them faster, we can give them more endurance, we can make them certain colors, we can give them crests, we can give them frills or we can put little muffs on them, etc. We can do any of that intentionally. We can make them all white toe nailed if we want. We can make them all webbed-footed! It's just selection, but if left to accident instead of design, birds with rare features seem "mysterious" and the superstitions about them, therefore persist. There are, of course, a few colors that might influence inferior performance. Lemons come immediately to mind, as there is a genetic linkage to vision impairment in them similar to what albinos possess. Similarly, homozygous Almonds are often bladder eyed, which is, of course, a physical impairment. But excepting those types of genetic linkages to genuine physical impairments, colors are just colors and have no bearing on anything. I've worked on dilute Rollers for a lot of years now. The first few years I only bred a few good ones because I bred very few dilutes early on. These days, my best ones tend to be dilutes, but it's largely because they tend to now make up 75+% of my year's youngsters. About the only negative observation I've made is that the yellows and cream bars seem to encounter the majority of my early bird of prey losses. But that's not due to a weakness. It's just because they seem to contrast far more with the environment than their red siblings. They seem to get singled out first, followed next by pied-bald birds and then on to the red checks and mealies which at least here locally contrast against the green background of trees and the slate background of rooftops. Long term, I'm moving about 80 miles south. The new place is wide open and mostly rolling grassy hills that are usually quite yellowed by lack of irrigation. I tend to suspect that those yellows and creams will probably suffer far less losses in those conditions as a result being better camouflaged against the terrain than say, a Black.

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Thanks my friend!! I’m working on two more with a scientific scope, and these have been a long time coming 😅

@@RFRP .. Yeah, lets get into some of that eye sign stuff.. LOL

Interesting story. Thanks for sharing!!

That’s great to hear! Glad I’m not the only one with white 😉

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😆 There are some interesting ideas out there for sure!!

THAT'S AN INTERESTING ONE. THE ONES I HAD GENERALLY WERE GOOD BREEDING HENS, BUT OTHERS THAT DIDN'T CARRY THEM WERE EQUALLY AS GOOD. I THINK THEY TEND TO GET THEM WHEN THEY ARE OLDER. 👍

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Yes!! Thanks for sharing!!

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Exactly!! Thanks for weighing in! Did you like seeing Kevin the bird? 😁

@@RFRP Yes it was great to see him 👍

Yeah, Kev. You only say that cause you have a bird named after you!.. LOL. Actually, when I heard James say Kevin, I thought he was talking about me.. But only for a couple of seconds is all. I was like, WTH!.. 😂

​@ausfuhrpramienjagar HI KEV, I think it was 2 nuns that named him and James added the second part. Are you from Germany or Netherlands. Is the sport over there in decline, over here in England it's about finished. No young blood coming into the sport. Really sad ,the club I raced in once had 68 members. One of the strongest clubs in Britain. Now it no longer exists. SAD. KEEP OUR SPORT ALIVE MY FRIEND 👍 or have I got it totally wrong and you're American.

@@kevinnorton7759 .. Yes, I'm in the U.S.A. Napa Valley California. Where the wineries are located. 🙂

I have heard the same about that family. 🙏🏼

😆 Right?!

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@@nabanikhan8923 All my videos have English subtitles. For a few videos I translated and uploaded the subtitles to different languages

@@RFRP sir, please tell me in a sentence, the necessary of white toenails of a super breeder

@@nabanikhan8923 white toenails have no significance. It is only a color trait and has zero correlation with breeding performance

Neutral! 😊

Thanks my friend!! Hopefully there won’t be any haters out there for this. 🙏🏼 And I think you are correct about the theories

That’s very interesting to hear. Thanks Freddy!

@@RFRP sion and bricoux too 100%,original aarden have white nails and white beak

That's how Martha Van Geel wanted it. 🙂.. The pied gene comes from the "Dolle"