46 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE 



A bird with all the Carnoau characteristics and one that will 

 coijply in type, size, head, color of beak, eyes, and in every 

 other detail to the standard, can be produced with black, dun, 

 white or bluish feathers by the process of crossing in a black 

 pigeon of some other breed or any other color desired, and then 

 breeding out the foreign blood by crossing and recrossing the 

 offspring back to full blooded Carneaux, saving only youngsters 

 of ihr- desircil color or those that had a tendency to the desired 

 colo)'. 



To e:;tal)lish a black breed of Carneaux therefore, by this 

 nietlicd, we must cross Carneaux with black pigeons of some 

 other breed. Homers, Runts or Maltese will do, but preferably 

 a cross between these three breeds as is described in the article 

 on Wliite Carneaux. 



Black Homers, Mondaincs, Runts and Maltese do not 

 have liglit beaks, ard there are very few breeds of black pigeons 

 that have ligiit btaks. There are black Tumblers with light 

 beaks, but the> have pearl eyes, and a Black Carneau nuist 

 have a Carneau eye and not a Tumbler eye; hence the Tumblei's 

 or any pc ail excd p!LMH)n cannot 1)(^ used in the production of a 

 Mack Carneau wil'iout cncounlering the necessity of breeding 

 out pearl eyes, which woidd be an added obstacle. 



The offspring of a black pigeon and a Carneau will occasional- 

 ly be dun or brown with light beaks, but offspring of the same 

 combination are m'>>5e apt to be a dirty red with a smutty or 

 bluish breast and rump, and some of the squabs by the same 

 mr.ting are ai)t io be mottled in various colors, with occasionally 

 a blue barred offspring; none of which can be used in the mak- 

 ing of a black (.niutau except the duns or browns w^ith light 

 beaks, and if these sViow bars on their wings they cannot be 

 us(m1. 



By recrossing the duns and browns with light beaks with 

 other birds of the same color and produced in the same w^ay, 

 now and then a black one will appear with a light beak. If 

 it is then crossed back with a full blooded Carneau they will 

 produce an occasional black youngster v^ith a light beak, and 

 after this point is reached successfully by several different 

 routes, >o as to keep fairly free from in-breeding, such birds 

 can l)e mated to others produced in the same way and remated 

 until they will perpetuate themselveg in color. li must be kept 



