Hello everyone! I have a nice little surprise to you today,
but before we take a closer look at these guys I'd just like to let you know
that I've just opened up a merchandise store. So I'd really love it if you're
able to take a quick look and just give me some feedback, tell me
what you'd like to see in a merchandise store.
There's a link to the store in the description and in the comments, so
please, have a look and let me know what you think.
Anyway guys, here is the surprise update. I've just
picked up a pair of little white racing pigeons.
They're very nice looking birds and I'm excited to have them. It's been a long
time since I've had white racing pigeons.
These came from someone called Darrin. I know Darrin watches the videos
so feel free to say thanks to him in the comments.
There are nice little young birds.
And I know a few of you guys have been asking for a "how to breed white pigeons"
video, so once these two are a little more
mature I'll make that video for you. Anyway let's have a quick look at the
rest of the birds. Here's the little guy from our red cock who was lost.
I think in the previous video we couldn't tell the colour, but it's quite
clearly an ash red. We can see the feathers are
coming through now. I'm still not sure if it's a hen or a
cock we might have to wait until he's more mature to find out.
If it's a hen then it won't carry the dilute gene, which is
a little unfortunate, but if it's a cock there is a chance that it does
and we might be able to use this guy to carry on our yellow project.
But his foster parents are doing well looking after him,
the blue bar hen and the grizzle cock.
This pair actually does have a baby but it's next door
being looked after by the almond pair. So let's pull them out and have a look as well.
So these guys have two babies one of them
is theirs, and the other is the grizzle from next door.
It can be a little hard to tell, but now that the feathers are coming in
we can quite clearly see that this one is probably going to be a black
and this one has the white coming through so this one is the grizzle.
Because the father of this one was a homozygous grizzle
we know that all of his babies will definitely be grizzles
and because there was no grizzles in the almond box
we know that none of their babies could possibly be grizzle
which makes it easy to tell which baby is which. This one
is from the almond hen, and this one is from the grizzle cock.
And up here with everybody's favourite vicious,
protective, crazy, opal... he has one baby and I'm pretty sure it's a black
and if it is a black I'm actually going to give this one to Darrin
who gave me the white babies you saw previously.
It'll be a nice little trade some nice blacks
for his beautiful whites. The rest of our eggs
including the eggs out of this opal pair should hatch this week, I think they're due
to hatch on Wednesday, and that'll actually be the last
breeding i'll be doing for a while because about the time these babies due
to be weaned I will be moving house!
Which is quite exciting, it means that I won't be able to do these vlog videos
for a little while, but I might have more time for some
genetics videos, so please let me know what you'd like to see. I might even be
able to do some health videos, maybe some pigeon training videos, so let
me know what you'd like to see. Anyway guys, that's it for today. Like I
said at the start...
Like I said at the start, please feel free to take a look at the merchandise store,
let me know if you like what you see, let me know what you'd like to see,