Rollers – Sex Linkage
I struggled with this topic until I read Frank’s page on it. This article helped me understand how it works for those things that are sex-linked. This topic probably should have been at the start of the document, however once you grasp the concepts it probably won’t be read again. Sex-Linkage by Frank Mosca Sex!! […]
Rollers – Breeding Result Expectations
Our thanks again to Mr. Mosca for allowing us to use his material. All fanciers should study this page to gain an understanding of how the colors and patterns are passed along to the offspring. This section is two pages. Do not overlook the link at the bottom to go to the second page as […]
Rollers – Selfs
I have included this page just to clarify a point. “Self” refers to a bird being a solid color. Selfs are not a single genetic trait, rather it is a term for how a bird looks. There are several ways to get them.
Rollers – Almond
The following text is from Frank Mosca. Pictures above are from J.P. Isom. Step 1: Almond is a dominant, sex-linked, depigmenting mutation — or change from the wild-type condition of the pigeon, (Columba livia). Beside the depigmentation, it does other things, too, and has many alleles (alternatives), but let’s not worry about those for now. […]
Rollers – Kite
The Kite I think we should include the following on kites from Joe Quinn’s book “The Pigeon Breeder’s Notebook” to help us keep quality kites in the loft to help with keeping quality Torts and Almonds. Formally Kites are t-pattern which show bronzing in the inner webs of flight feathers. The area showing the most […]
Rollers – Tortoise Shell
“Usually a combination of grizzle, kite, one dose of recessive red (optional) on a blue bird makes torts also known as tri-colour.” Sorry I can’t give credit for the description above, but I failed to note what forum I copied it from. I’ve always admired the torts in rollers but never knew what it took […]
Rollers – Patterns
There are 4 patterns and they are listed in order from least dominant to most. Here is an example of each. These examples are given in blue color palette but the same applies to ash red. The barless roller still has the colored wings and tail feathers. This is the typical blue bar pigeon with […]
Rollers – The Colors
There are three basic colors. They are listed in order of most dominant to least. There are only 3 colors, but several factors can tweak what we see. Even though we call the wild type “blue” in fact it is an optical illusion and truly a blue bird, but that is just too hard to […]
Color Basics
Mark’s Notes on Roller Inheritance There is some really good information on pigeon genetics on the Web but it is much more than I needed. Focusing on Rollers I’ve extracted the information that I need to keep the colors and patterns going in my loft. When I gave Dwight Madsen my flock of young birds […]
Hubbs
Alan Bliven on his website has a couple of articles on the Hubbs rollers. He was a close friend of Charlies Hubbs and we thank him for sharing these articles, My friend Les Manz and how I turned his Karp and Bygraves families into Mottles and Whitesides. by Charlie Hubbs I am currently 85 years […]
Casperson
This family is an enigma. Frank Mosca, pigeon geneticist has been helping study them as this family is all Badges in Black, Red and Yellow. While in Rhode Island there were both Selfs and Badges but the last 50 years this family was bred as Badges only. The problem is the fact that there are […]
Whittinghams
In America, the oldest of the roller breeds are those received from the Whittingham family in England. The Whittingham family owned a pet shop and three generations of the family exported roller pigeons to both the US and Canada. They shipped birds from other leading breeders as well as their own flocks. The last of […]
Neibel
Before we delve into Monty’s philosophy on handling birds let’s revisit the make up of the flock. From Aaron Johnson we learn: Those birds go back too the originals brought in between 1969 too 1972. They originally went back too Pensom, Plona and Cooper. When Monty was still alive,most of this strain was still concentrated […]
Cook
Henry Cook was the NBRC Accessory Secretary for a long time and had many friends in the hobby. Additionally, he was a keen competitor and breeder of quality birds. One comment stated that Henry’s family was based on crosses of Higgins, Evans (dilute) and another guy’s birds that couldn’t be recalled. From TouHou Yang we […]
Families
Ray Perkins (left) looking over his birds with William Pensom[/caption] Obviously, not all families are covered and at this late date it is impossible to obtain a clear and accurate picture on some of their history. As times pass these older breeders are either placed on a pedestal or vilified with the truth usually somewhere […]
Training, Care, & Housing Videos
The following links will take you to YouTube videos that you may find useful in training your young birds. Banding Baby Pigeons [presto_player id=7007] ______________________________________________________________________ Nesting Material Kirkpatrick Lofts- nesting material [presto_player id=5981] ____________________________________________________________________________ Grit making grit [presto_player id=5990] Oyster shell grit [presto_player id=5991] Jovati Grit [presto_player id=5992] _____________________________________________________________________________ Weaning the squeakers PORTABLE LOFTS […]