Silesian Moorhead
The Silesian Moorhead is a Silesian color pigeon built around the moorhead pattern, where a dark or strongly colored head contrasts with a lighter body. The value of the bird is in that regional marking style as much as in general type. It should be separated from performance tumblers and from croppers; this is an ornamental color breed whose success depends on a clean head boundary, appropriate body color, sound feather, and a neat stance.
In the loft, Moorhead breeding is a slow sorting process. A bird with attractive head color still needs a healthy body, good fertility, and stable temperament to be useful. Pattern faults can hide until the bird molts into adult feather, so breeders often reassess young stock after the first full molt. Buyers should look for clear contrast, clean eyes and beak, and evidence that the breeder is maintaining a line rather than producing occasional dark-headed birds by chance.
Colors: Almond, Ash Red, Bar, Barless, Black, Blue, Brown, Checker, Dilute, Dun, Grizzle, Indigo, Mottle, Opal, Pied, Recessive Red, Red, Silver, Splash, Spread, White, Yellow
