Comb type

[KC8]

My mixed breed hen just had babies with the neighbours Polish rooster....

11 gorgeous chick's that I'm absolutely obsessed with lol

I'll attach a photo of Mum and Dad. Mum has a single comb and Dad has a V comb.

The babies all have single combs except for the youngest one. Is this a buttercup comb or something like a pea comb?

I've attached some other photos of some of the chick's so you can see wing feathers. Is that accurate on the colours they'll stay. So the patterned baby might end up mottled or partly mottled like Dad?

Thank you

 

[Debbie292d]

My mixed breed hen just had babies with the neighbours Polish rooster....

I'm old but we used to say it was the milkman that did it.

Gorgeous chickens and chicks! Those ones that look like chipmunks with the stripes could mean partridge.

 

[KC8]

I'm old but we used to say it was the milkman that did it.

Gorgeous chickens and chicks! Those ones that look like chipmunks with the stripes could mean partridge.

Thank you there is one that looks like that.
The Dad is mottled so guessing going by her wing feathers that she might be too. Hope so it would be cute

Excited too see how they go

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Unless both parents have mottling in their background, it cannot be mottled. They could be Patridge, mixed pattern or duckwing based on the chipmunk stripes.

They also should ALL have a heterozygous V comb, or dad isn't full polish/actually dad

 

[Debbie292d]

Unless both parents have mottling in their background, it cannot be mottled. They could be Patridge, mixed pattern or duckwing based on the chipmunk stripes.

They also should ALL have a heterozygous V comb, or dad isn't full polish/actually dad

Do you have a chicken genetics for dummies link as I'm trying to learn this stuff and maybe I'm just reading it in the wrong places as I consider myself fairly intelligent, but I'm just not getting it.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Do you have a chicken genetics for dummies link as I'm trying to learn this stuff and maybe I'm just reading it in the wrong places as I consider myself fairly intelligent, but I'm just not getting it.

Not really. It's Just stuff I've picked up through the years from here and my own flock.

Polish are supposed to be homozygous for the V comb. Thats why they all look the same. Single combs are recessive to pretty much everything, so if they have a single comb, they're also homozygous. So all of your chicks should be heterozygous for single and v. Do you have pics of the single comb chicks? Sometimes it's not a very noticeable difference when they're super young, but it is different than a single comb

 

[Debbie292d]

Not really. It's Just stuff I've picked up through the years from here and my own flock.

Polish are supposed to be homozygous for the V comb. Thats why they all look the same. Single combs are recessive to pretty much everything, so if they have a single comb, they're also homozygous. So all of your chicks should be heterozygous for single and v. Do you have pics of the single comb chicks? Sometimes it's not a very noticeable difference when they're super young, but it is different than a single comb

I only have had silkies and this spring this is what I have and can breed for. But where I get lost is with the offspring that are split. The astericks or two top ones are what I'm starting with. (Mauve rooster with two chocolate hens and a splash hen.) So, this pairing up which I got from HERE, and this person did their best to simplify it, but they're speaking terms I either need to learn or somehow figure out as after this below, I'm lost.

To make matters even more confusing, someone told me to get some buff silkies because nobody around here sells them. I read how to breed for those and OMG forget it.

Sunday I'm going to buy some fancy silkie hatching eggs that perhaps will have a couple buffs in them.


Mauve x Chocolate* = Mauve and Chocolate chicks of both sexes.
Mauve x Splash* = Mauve & Choco Splash pullets, Blue & Splash split Chocolate cockerels
Blue x Chocolate = Blue and Black pullets, Blue and Black cockerels split Chocolate
Blue x Splash = 50% Splash, 50% Blue

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I don't mess with chocolate in chickens, so that automatically includes mauve

 

[KC8]

Unless both parents have mottling in their background, it cannot be mottled. They could be Patridge, mixed pattern or duckwing based on the chipmunk stripes.

They also should ALL have a heterozygous V comb, or dad isn't full polish/actually dad

So all the babies should have a V comb ? They mostly look like single combs except for one?
They bought him as Polish but no idea if hes 100% or not. He seems to be
Is the colour of Dad not called mottled? I just assumed the little chipmunk chick was going to be the same as him going by wing feather colour.

The little brown chick has a mottled effect in her wing feathers too. The other don't.

10 chick's have this comb
The last chick has this one

You can see on the little black chick (along with 2 others) they have a tiny little Mohawk bit that I assumed was the start of a crest

Would love your thoughts please. I know nothing about chicken colours and genetics but adore these babies so very curious

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Their combs should all appear single until at the back where it should look like a flower or star. I'll post some pictures in a bit during break. It's really a neat comb.

Dad is mixed color, I'm pretty sure. Definitely not mottled, amd even if he was, mom would also need to at least carry the gene to have mottled chicks