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#Post#: 11315--------------------------------------------------
Breeding two recessive(Soft Color)
DIR By: Kevin Thao
Date: July 13, 2012, 10:21 pm
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I have heard my friends say that if I breed two reds,whites or
yellows together...it may cause the youngs to rolldown or just
flip around.
My friend said you have to balance the colors between hard
colors and soft color.\
Why is this and how can breeding 2 soft colors cause a cull?
#Post#: 11322--------------------------------------------------
Re: Breeding two recessive(Soft Color)
DIR By: wishiwon2
Date: July 14, 2012, 3:05 pm
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This is a hot topic Kevin and very few rules are hard and fast
in breeding/flying rollers. I will share with you my experience
and opinion, but recognize it is my opinion only and there will
be many who disagree with it. I cannot prove my position
(without extensive sampling and analysis, which I am unwilling
to spend the time or effort doing) and neither can they, so you
will have to decide what course is best for you.
There are some colors and/or factors that have a direct relation
to a birds strength of character or ability to resist the roll
impulse if you will. This softer character shows up as increased
frequency, rolling at improper times (bumping), out flying,
perhaps rolling down. It is often termed as 'hot'. Some of that
softening of the roll resistance is necessary or the birds do
not roll, (stiffs). It would seem that the further away from
wild type (insert color and pattern) the softer the character
(insert roll resistance). So, when softer colors and factors are
present in combination, they are additive on one another.
I do not know why. It doesnt matter to me why, only that I know
it is. This allows me to manage it. It isnt a bad thing, too
strong of character is just as much a fault as too weak. In my
experience with flying several different lines of rollers, there
is a linkage to color and modifiers.
Ex; spread softens roll resistance, so does grizzle, recessive
red, pied, reduced, indigo/andalusion, smokey and dilute. (there
are probably others but these are those I have experience with).
I like to have at least one but not more than 2 of these factors
on a bird. A black pepper head (spread + grizzle = 2) works
well. A yellow mottle (rec red, grizz and dilute) often means
trouble for me. Im not trying to tell you that every yellow
mottle is a cull, but I stand by my assertion that it will have
a weaker/softer character than its blue check nest mate. I
havent seen a difference between check and bar.
My color balancing practice goes like this; ash to anything,
blue to anything but not blue to blue for more than 1
generation. Dont put 2 rec reds or 2 grizzles together. Spread
to pattern. Smokey to anything except rec red. dilute and
reduced to blue or ash pattern only. Like I pointed out above,
no more than 2 softening agents on the same bird. Nearly all my
birds especially stock are either bronze or smokey or spread or
rec red or pied. I dont have any birds stocked that are more
than 2 factors and only a few that have zero.
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