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Extreme Dilute - hen & cock
(lemons)

Tiger Grizzle cock on eggs

Grizzle influenced
Scale-Pattern Kite cock

Yellow Checker cock
& Brown Bar hen

Spread Ash hen

Half Sider cock w/f

Feeding his very hungry offspring

Spread Ash cock with Pearl-eye

Almond hen

Dominant Opal Blue cock

Grizzle Dilute hen

Indigo Blue Bar cock

Reduced Pink-Lace hen

‘So you think you can dance’

Slate Ragged-Shield

A Dominant Opal Steel-Blue cock
with Pink Bars – top left

*Ash Red Blue-head & Crop Checker
hen with evenly variegated primaries
½ ash ½ white. Tail feathers are a vibrant
ash/white blend. This unique mutation
is a likely candidate for a world first

This exciting new color variety
appears to meld ash evenly with white
On the shield the ash takes on a
gun-metal-grey hue and from the base
of the neck to the crop we observe an
interesting blend of color with an
intermingling of red, white, ash and grey
It should be interesting to see the overall
color change after first moult

Invaluable parents of the Ash Red
Blue-head Checker hen above and
Charcoal-face Ash Red Checker
cock hereunder

Indigo T-pattern Velvet
Pied hen w/f

Almond Crested Pearl-eye
Salmon-Pink cock

Indigo Bar cock x Indigo Velvet hen

Young Almond hen & Homo Indigo Velvet cock

Newly weds: Homozygous hen & Heterozygous cock
Nesting Grizzles (they Grizzle but never Grumble)

Pictured next to Blue Bar & Homozygous Indigo fledglings
is a very rare Pink-Lace Indigo Bar

Black Velvet versus Black-Wing Archangel

A nice type Recessive Opal hen

An eye catching Dominant Opal
Indigo Velvet Pied cock
with Bronze-collar & Crescent

Siblings – versus
Charcoal-face

Tiger Grizzle cock – bottom left

Homozygous Indigo Velvet
Grizzle cock

Sandy Almond cock with Khaki Bar
& Red Checker siblings

Mottled Red Grizzle cock – bottom centre
Mottled Recessive Red cock – bottom right

Dilute or Pale Bronze
Checker hen (Gimpel) – top left
Barless Blue cock – top right
Smoky hen - centre

Ash Red T-pattern Dilute hen - far left
Spread Ash cock – top
Tortoiseshell Grizzle cock – bottom right

Tiger Grizzle cock

This striking sibling to the Blue-head Ash Red Checker mutation
is showing intermediate to black pigment around the face and crop
Classified as a Charcoal-face Red Checker the direct sunlight shows
the young cock is more intense than his sibling and exhibits a
brilliant silver crescent - also has red/white variegated primaries
Future breeding will attempt to introduce solid black as an addition
to the Blue, Grey and Charcoal colour’s - on Ash Red, Dilute
and Extreme Dilute
All recorded data and photography will be duly documented and
presented in a forthcoming publication by A.A.R.O

Sapphire Blue
T-Pattern Checker
Pied hen w/f

Manny Arquette

19th May 2009

Indigo T-pattern Velvet cock/Opal

Spread Ash cock

Mottled Recessive Red Grizzle cock

Spread hen w/f
Indigo Checker cock
Indigo T-pattern Velvet cock/Opal

Homozygous Indigo T-pattern Velvet
cock

Homozygous Spread-Indigo Dilute hen
- Yellow -

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1st Oct. 2009

Grizzle Silver-Mist cock

Colourful Family of Bronze cock & Ash Red Dilute hen

Resultant progeny from a basic Slate
cock/Opal mated to a Golden-Shield
Slate hen.
For the present time the new arrival
has tentatively been classified by
A.A.R.O as a Slate-Self . This name tag
shall persist until the first moult and
whereby we will reassess the color
presentation and if so warranted -
to have the bird reclassified.
Any suggestions from breeders are
most welcome for it is important to the
research program that each individual
specimen is classified accurately.

Grizzle Recessive Red Genotypic-Tortoiseshell
hen/Kite

Faded Milky Blue Checker cock/indigo

Slate-self carrying opal

Wild Type Blue/Black Genotypes hereunder- for comparison
to the variety of Slate’s pictured above

Basic Slate - bottom

Slate Pied cock & hen

Pale Slate (Dilute)

Gay Pied hen - Black tail

Mom, Dad & the Kids

8th October 2009

Since we began photographic postings a number of inquisitive viewers have asked
to explain away some of our unfamiliar terminology. We thought it was as clear as the
blue summer skies, however, seeing as how yours truly created this ‘nomenclature’
relevant to our breeding program, I decided to set up this additional segment folks.

Clouded:

Not translucent or transparent – hazy & unclear in definition, i.e. dull in overall
color presentation of phenotype.

Glossy: Homozygous Iridescence trait that exhibits a very appealing glowing effect and is
best observed in the vicinity of the
sunlight and when

pigeon’s neck & crescent; especially radiant in direct

pigeons that are heterozygous iridescent.

Scale-pattern:

Feather pattern, closely resembling the scales of a fish. It has currently been
established to be of a Dominant trait which expresses itself above all present
known modifiers.

Lucid-Spread: A self colored pigeon that visually exhibits the barring & checkering within
the shield.

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Ragged-Shield: The checkering within the shield is distorted and appear as irregular and
disproportionate streaking. This corruption of checkering uniformity is due to the effect
of Pivotal Relocation. Please note that each & every physical attribute has a corresponding
chromosomal allele that may be subject to minimal or very observable mutative change.

Peak-head Kite: the rear of the bird’s cranium appears egg-shaped - a mutative state.

Genotypic-Tortoiseshell not morphing: these Genotypes remain the same color in
maturity and do not change their visual appearance as do non-Genotypic Tortoiseshell
pigeons that Genetically evolve into the Tiger Grizzle variety.

Black-Satin Slate: this terminology applies to Homozygous Slate Genotypes and is
evident in both the mutative basic variety and the Golden-Shield Slates.

Pivotal-Relocation (PR): A genetic reshuffling of alleles, scattering of eumelanin, or the
repositioning of allelic loci - i.e. from one location to another. The Budgerigar Crest variations
is an excellent example - i.e. Hooded, Full-Crest, Half-Crest, Tufted. This recently discovered
(PR) trait may also be viewed in pigeons and especially so within the many variations of
Shield-pattern, Crests, Frill and leg-feathering exhibited. The Ragged-Shield pattern in our
mutative Slates is just one example of Pivotal Relocation in pigeons, i.e. the shield checkering
pattern was effectively and decisively altered from the norm; or what avian research
geneticists refer to as Wild Type.
A great example of Pivotal Relocation is the ‘Cyclops Phenomena’.

13th October 2009

viewed alongside

Indigo Charcoal-head & Crop T-pattern Velvet/Ash Red
Carrying opal factor

October 2009 Pigeon of the Month

Ragged-Shield Slate Mutation

Cyclops Kitten Mutation

Pivotal-Relocation

3 excellent
examples

Glossy-Crescent Pale Blue Checker

(PR)

Blue-head

Extreme Dilute Siblings (Lemons)

Manny Arquette

Nov. 5, 2009

Iceberg Scale-pattern bar with Stockings

White Scale-pattern
on Lucid-Spread for bar

Kite-bronze
Scale-pattern
on Homo Spread

Old man Archangel, having a stern chat with his very
attentive Blackwing Bronze offspring - the absent, egg sitting
mom is a - Ash Red T-pattern Dilute

Lucid-Spread for bar Slate cock – at twelve weeks
of age, the overall color has darkened, as predicted it would
upon maturity.

The pigeon shown is to further demonstrate Pivotal Relocation
at work. All new variety color & pattern results will be posted
in due time. The photo exhibits very defined shoulder barring
(as with the Zebra-pattern Black-Satin Slate progeny) and the
pictured specimen is out of a: Homozygous Slate Black-Satin cock
with a Silver-Mist Black Grizzle hen w/f. Once a breeder is able to
identify and fully understand how to utilize Pivotal Relocation,
where mutative engineering and feather structure of autosomal
pattern is concerned - we have now come to believe anything is
phenotypically achievable.

Breeding Program Oct - Dec 2009 Birds

Grizzle Silver-Mist
Blue cock

Lucid-Spread for bar Slate

Bronze Glossy-crescent
Blackwing/Ash Red

Spread Ash over
Spread Indigo/Almond

Spread Ash Charcoal-head
with Variegated Primaries

Manny Arquette

Dec. 15, 2009

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The Rarest of the Rare

To all those Scoffing knockers! - It is
not genetically possible to produce
a Spread Ash Charcoal-head variety
from any mating of Indigo’s!!!

New Color Variety Classifications

in line with DNA Sequencing and Blood Type Sampling

Spread Ash Charcoal-head
with Variegated Primaries

Homo Slate Golden-Shield

Homo Slates Black-Satin

Iceberg Scale-pattern Bar
with Stockings

Ash Red Charcoal-face with Silver-crescent
and variegated Primaries

Clouded Ash Red Checker

Grizzle Black Silver-Mist with White-flights

Slate Lucid-spread for bar

Spread Ash over Spread Indigo

Burnt Umber Squeakers with Stockings and Burnt Umber Fledgling with Stockings

Kite Peak-head with
Frill and Stockings

Manny Arquette

Dec. 22, 2009

Pivotal Relocation (PR)

Dec. 24, 2009

December 2009 New Color Classifications

Faded Dark Cinnamon Bar cock

Sibling Cinnamons next to
Burnt Umber color variety

Dec. 27, 2009

Grizzle White-bellied Tortoiseshell/Opal

Cinnamonwing
Budgerigar

Black-Satin Slate Review

The research program concerning the mutative Slate variety is proving to be
very exciting, especially with the Homozygous Black-Satin bloodline. The
plumage color of the November progeny is of a rich violet that blends well
with theBlack-Satin coloration and with the majority of phenotypes realized the
very appealing color meld intensifies with maturity.
This opens the way to producing many new color variations with random outcrossings
and as Bronze already produces a violet iridesence with hybrid offspring, it should
prove interesting to inspect resulting outcomes when these varieties come together.
We are intent upon maintaning our highly guarded Slate bloodlines to be of a
purity of strain as is possible, and all ensuing hybrids shall be isolated.
Photographic postings will be exhibited into the New Year for analytical evaluation.

Dec. 28, 2009

Milky Cinnamon/Homo Grizzle

Faded Cinnamon Bar hen w/f

Manny's Nomenclature Breakdown

Feb. 7, 2010

Learning Can Be Fun!

Allele, allelomorph (genetics) - either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms
of a gene which can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and
that control the same character - "some alleles are dominant over others."

Please do let me explain

Pigeon Talk January 2010

Showcasing Best of 2009

The many emails received to date have brought about an awareness that
the majority of pigeon breeding enthusiasts are eager to learn and become
involved. Many feel a desire to communicate their breeding experiences
relative to the exciting and challenging hobby.

Some have indicated that much confusion still exists with regards the
genetics side of things and I intend to do my very best to make the
subject a little more palatable to digest and viewers are most welcome
to email - should my detailed explanations be found wanting.

Another area that needs clarification has to do with the Andalusian
Pigeons. Andalusian is not a genotypic color variety, but resultant
of a combination of two genotypes - the heterozygous Indigo, mated
with Wild-Type-Spread (Black), is responsible for the very appealing
color we know as Andalusian.
The research team is currently experimenting with the Andalusian
and to date two specimens have been developed.
For recording purposes the eye-catching birds have been classified
as follows: Andalusian with Variegated Primaries and Painted Andalusian.

A.A.RO's Slide Show 2010

Feb. 14, 2010

Spread Cinnamon fledglings - Faded to the front

Grizzle influenced Bronze Scale-pattern/Burnt Umber

Tiger Grizzle & Milky Lavender squeakers

     Ribbon-tail Indigo
       Bar Split for
       Dominant Opal w/f

Feb. 23, 2010

The above photographic posting should henceforth
prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that Kite-Bronze
and Intense-White Scale-pattern are Dominant traits of
visual Expression to Wild-Type Spread. If anyone still
has reservations, might I suggest they take up Golf as
hobby of choice!

Feb. 27, 2010

Manny Arquette

Burnt Umber young cock with stockings

Manny Arquette