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nah, I’ve never looked at the comb genetics much past straight x pea... or straight x rose to be honest, but I prefer a pea comb. I breed towards the very specific goal of creating “non show quality barnyard mutts”. So far I’ve nailed it every time 😉 I recently picked up a CLB cockerel from a...

Maybe this will help in understanding the comb genetics a bit more https://poultry.extension.org/articles/poultry-anatomy/poultry-genetics-an-introduction/?amp

yeah, the drawing is just representative... I think I’ve seen a ‘primer’ on comb genetics that might help ... let me search real quick... but maybe all that is over complicating it... if you cross pea x straight comb, you’ll get all pea combs

Set it like this for an EE hen

The comb is determined by two genes, so the various combinations create all the comb types

I meant to also say, that if you’re looking to truly create peacombed lines of Marans or Orps that breed true... it’ll take a great deal more effort, and using Wyandotte’s might be a better choice to get the comb introduced... But for just making some nice mixes for the barnyard your EEs would...

If you’re not looking to sell them or show them, then you can easily cross the pea combed EEs with a straight comb bird and expect to get all pea combed offspring... then just keep selecting for pea combs over the next generations I have a CLB rooster I’m planning to cross with my homemade EEs...