Expected Pigeon Breeding Results
by Frank Mosca
After the first eight rows, I'm going back to fancier language.  I simply want folks to be aware that homozygous (homo), heterzygous (hetero), and hemizygous (hemi) are easy to use and consider and sometimes do make things easier.  In fancier language, homo would be "pure for", hetero is often said to be "carrying",  hemi has no real fancier term, but it simply means that the hen, at least for sex-linked factors only carries one allele at all times.  NOT everything in the hen is hemizygous, only those things on her sex-chromosome. 
Male
Female
Yg Males
Yg Females




Ash-red (homozygous)
Ash-red (hemizygous)
Ash-red homozygous
Ash-red-hemizygous
Ash-red (heterozygous wild-type [blue])
Ash-red (hemizygous)
Ash-red homozygous & Ash-red het wild-type
ash-red hemizygous & wild-type
Ash-red (heterozygous brown]) Ash-red (hemizygous) Ash-red homozygous & Ash-red het brown sh-red hemizygous & brown hemizygous
Ash-red (homozygous) Wild-type (blue)
Ash-red het wild-type & wild-type
ash-red hemizygous
Ash-red (heterozygous wild-type [blue]) wild-type (blue)
Ash-red het wild-type & wild-type
ash-red hemizygous & wild-type




wild-type (blue)
wild-type (blue)
wild-type (blue)
wild-type (blue)
wild-type (blue)
Ash-red hemizygous
Ash-red heterozygous wild-type
wild-type (blue)
wild-type (blue)
brown hemizygous
wild-type heterozygous brown
wild-type (blue)
wild-type (blue) carrying brown
wild-type (blue)
wild-type & wild-type carrying brown
wild-type & brown




brown
Ash-red
Ash-red carrying brown
brown
brown
wild-type (blue)
wild-type (blue) carrying brown
brown
brown
brown
brown
brown




Any non-almond allele
Almond
Almond
non-Almond
Almond (het for non-almond)
non-Almond
Almond & non-almond
Almond & non-almond
Almond (homozygous - often problems and not recommened - this problem doesn't result when you're using other alleles of St, e.g, Faded, Frosty, etc.and the results are the same.)
Almond
Almond
Almond
Patterns (sex-immaterial on these)
barless
barless
barless
barless
barless
wild-type (barred)
wild-type carrying barless
wild-type carrying barless
wild-type (barred)
barless
wild-type carrying barless wild-type carrying barless
wild-type (barred)
checker pure (various alleles)
checker carrying bar
checker carrying bar
checker pure (various alleles) wild-type (barred) checker carrying bar
checker carrying bar
checker carrying bar
wild-type (barred)
checker carrying bar & bar
checker carrying bar & bar
wild-type (barred) checker carrying bar
checker carrying bar & bar
checker carrying bar & bar
checker carrying bar checker carrying bar checker homozygous & checker carrying bar & bar
checker homozygous & checker carrying bar & bar
SPREAD IS NOT PART OF THE PATTERN SERIES
(Spread is what makes "blue" black, Ash-red (spread ash), brown (self brown) Sex is immaterial with Spread.
Spread (homo)
Spread (homo) Spread (homo)
Spread (homo)
Spread (homo)
Spread (het)
Spread (homo) & Spread (het)
Spread (homo) & Spread (het)
Spread (het)
Spread (het)
Spread (homo) & spread (het) & wild-type (non-spread)
Spread (homo) & spread (het) & wild-type (non-spread)
Non-spread (wild-type) - doesn't necessarily mean "blue" just non-spread here Spread (het)
Spread (het) & non-Spread
Spread (het) & non-Spread
Non-spread (wild-type) - doesn't necessarily mean "blue" just non-spread here Spread (homo)
Spread (het)
Spread (het)

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