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It is argued by some that it was necessary to cross with the 

 yellow females of this breed, yellow males of some other breed, 

 such as the yellow Homer, and then mate the offspring, which 

 will be a yellow bird and one-half Cameau, with a female yel- 

 low Cameau, then remating the yellow male offspring from 

 this combination again with a full blood yellow female and so 

 on until the Homer blood was eliminated. 



If this was true, where does the yellow male Homer come 

 from, as the same rule applies to yellow Homers as applies to 

 Carneaux, viz: that the yellow birds were originally females? 

 See article on "How to Breed Yellow, Dun and Silver Colored 

 Pigeons." The yellow Cameau exists now as a special variety 

 of which there are both male and female and reproduce their 

 kind without throwing any red or red and white youngsters. 

 They will, however, produce yellow youngsters with white 

 splashes the same as red Carneaux will produce youngsters with 

 white splashes. The yellow or yellow and white Cameau is 

 equal to the red and red and white variety in every particular, 

 with possibly a little in its favor in the way of production of 

 whiter meated squabs and a little in the favor of the looks of 

 the squab, as a yellow feathered squab will dress up a little 

 nicer and cleaner looking on account of its pin feathers being 

 lighter in color. The pin feathers on a red squab are much 

 darker than those on a yellow feathered squab. 



The yellow Cameau as a rule is freer from dark beaks and 

 slate or bluish feathers, which characteristics tend towards 

 darker meat. The squabs produced by yellow and white Car- 

 neaux are just as large and just as many in number as compared 

 to those of the red variety. 



WHITE CARNEAUX 



It may be possible to secure a white Cameau by merely se- 

 lecting and breeding Carneaux with the greatest number of 

 white feathers. I believe the term White Cameau, however, 

 could be justly applied to a white bird that came within the 

 standard for White Carneaux in size, color and other markings, 

 even if it had a small percentage other than Carneau blood in 

 its veins. 



I can substantiate the consistency of this statement by pointing 

 to breeds of chickens and animals. For instance, with chickens 



