Before I start talking about the feather color of the pigeons, I would like to talk to you about two examples that seem to have nothing to do with pigeons, many of the principles of animals in nature are actually the same, and the reason why they have grown into the current state is the result of natural environmental selection.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the success of chameleons</h1>
Chameleons are reptiles, while birds including pigeons evolved from reptiles, which evolved scales into feathers as they evolved into birds.
Chameleon can be regarded as a very unique individual among reptiles, although it is slow to move, but it has a skin that can change color at will.
Therefore, chameleons can be integrated with the surrounding environment without being easily discovered by predators, and are conducive to concealing themselves and benefiting hunting. It can be said that its ability to be good at camouflage compensates for its slow movement.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the plight of the willow grouse</h1>
The willow grouse is a bird that lives in the Nordic countries without forest cover, and generally has brown body feathers in summer and autumn, and changes to white in winter and spring when there is snow, and blends with the surrounding snow to protect the color.
Summer and autumn outfits for grouse
In recent years, due to the warming of global temperatures, the amount of snow in winter and spring has become less, but grouse still grow white feathers in winter, and the white willow grouse does not match the environment in the absence of snow, making it a prey with poor camouflage, so it is more likely to be preyed upon by predators and lead to a decrease in number.
Spring and winter clothes for grouse
These two examples are intended to illustrate a phenomenon:
The first real role of the coat color of the pigeons should be the role of the protective color, so a large proportion of our current pigeons is gray pigeons or rain pigeons, which are the results of a natural elimination screening under the perennial competition, especially the high proportion of long-distance ultra-long-distance deep rain pigeons, but also because of its advantages that are relatively not easy to expose.
As for the "no red is not a species" and "there is a white road that is deep" that everyone is more interested in in the title, I would like to let everyone judge for themselves through the following brief description.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > no red and no species</h1>
This sentence comes from Zhu's pigeon language, and the starting point of each sentence has a certain background of the times, compared with the domestic Sion pigeons in the early years (the domestic Sion is from Heisman in the United States, and Heismann is from the French Sion and the Belgian Stachia, both of which have a large number of red representative pigeons. ）
Therefore, at that time, Yang Dengyuan Xi weng, Wang Fuyuan Xi Weng, and Gao Jia Dai, who used Wang Fu Yuan Xi Weng to breed, although not 100%, were also considered to have a large proportion of red pigeons.
At that time, they not only had excellent results, but also had a relatively rare coat color (because the quality of pigeons in the country was generally poor in the early years, people thought that red pigeons could not fly long distances, so there were not many red pigeons, but there were the above retrogrades. So the same is the grade pigeon, the red pigeon will be more likely to become the topic and spread.
Some people also think that red pigeons can improve the feather quality and physique of other ordinary feathered pigeons, and even use them as intermediate over-pigeons for breeding, such as using foreign red pigeons with their own gray pigeons, leaving gray pigeons in the descendants to eliminate red pigeons, where red pigeons are used as intermediate excessive pigeons, "bridge pigeons".
In fact, fanciers with a little genetic common sense know that each pigeon has as many as 40 pairs of genes, and the two pigeons are paired with 40 genomes to synthesize a gamete and develop into a new individual, sometimes the external coat color performance is indeed not a red pigeon, but it is undeniable that this pigeon still has half of the genes from the previous generation of red pigeons.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the role of the Jensen family's red pigeon</h1>
Before the introduction of red pigeons and slate pigeons, the local young pigeons could be regarded as superior pigeon quality, but the eldest son Vons felt that the form and performance of the Cullermann red pigeons and Scutters were better than those of the henry old line, so he encouraged the father to mix the red pigeons and slate pigeons in the old line and then the results improved by leaps and bounds.
Later, the Jensen brothers disagreed and did not like the red pigeons (it is estimated that their pigeons have completely copied the excellent genes of the red pigeons in addition to retaining the packaging (feather color) of the home, and the first-class red pigeons are indeed used as "bridge" pigeons on the surface).
So many red pigeons were sold to Van der Frasers, and Fras gave birth to the golden pairing "Fighter with Red Butterfly", which always performed well with red pigeons.
Fighter with red butterflies
It turns out that the "bridge pigeon" is actually very compatible with the "bridge pigeon"!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > has a white path depth</h1>
Also from the Zhu's pigeon language, to the effect that pigeons from close relatives, with white eyebrows, white foot beetles, white stripes, flower heads, white mouth shells, etc., are white, to the effect that "white" pigeons have better breeding ability than white, or fly faster.
Because the examples that can support this conclusion are too limited, and even the Kaufmann father and son regard the "white" such as white wings and too many white feathers as a genetic out-of-control phenomenon and eliminate them, I do not comment on whether there is a fundamental connection between "white" and the quality of the pigeons.
As far as the mountain line of our race is concerned, I think the gray pigeons that fly down are still the majority
But just the two examples I gave you at the beginning, the individual with a lot of white hair, and even the white flower pigeon white pigeon.
For example, the pale knights and Snow White of Fan Jiajun, who are widely known in our country over the years, or the red pigeons that everyone has in hand, these pigeons have a common feature that they are easy to be exposed to the eagle falcon in the sky.
Wouldn't you feel "lucky" if a white or red pigeon could race for many years without incident and win again and again?
If this pigeon is not very clever and cunning in the race, wearing such conspicuous feathers and flying all the way up hundreds of kilometers, wouldn't it be afraid of the eagles chasing the net all the way?
Or can we change our way of thinking, with the repeatedly winning red pigeons and white pigeons as the main blood, gradually use the relatively low-key gray pigeons or black pigeons as "bridge" pigeons, so that the descendants of red and white pigeons will gradually change into low-key gray and raindrop feathers, less natural enemies harassment and artificial aggression, will the results be better?
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