Can You Tell the Mix in an EE?

[RowanTheRed]

I agree. Handsome boy.

The red rooster has Buff Orpington vibes in his body shape now....just the way the tail hangs.

But really hard to know as many of the hatcheries are simply using EE to EE to breed EE.

You then get a mix of a mix and any hope of figuring out parentage is lost. You simply are left with vestiges of appearance here and there.

and yes...both peas. With the mixed parentage, the pea combs, which are dominant genetically, get affected by the other comb influencing genes so you see quite a bit of variation. You often can get funk when you breed a pea comb variety to a large comb variety...say EE to Leghorn. Those combs tend to get pretty unruly though technically "pea."

Thanks for updating us. Always fun to see how close we came with our "educated" guesses.
LofMc

He has turned out to be quite handsome indeed. Honestly, I thought he looked pretty muttly in his earlier weeks. I am glad he grew through the ugly stage nicely. LOL

And thanks for the info about pea combs. I have been trying to wrap my brain around this. I don't know why I didn't realize that you would get variations of combs, I just thought if one was more dominant than the other then that is what they got. Not a combination of the two going on.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

He has turned out to be quite handsome indeed. Honestly, I thought he looked pretty muttly in his earlier weeks. I am glad he grew through the ugly stage nicely. LOL

And thanks for the info about pea combs. I have been trying to wrack my brain around his. I don't know why I didn't realize that you would get variations of combs, I just thought if one was more dominant than the other then that is what they got. Not a combination of the two going on.

Technically it isn't a mix of the two, as single comb is absence of rose or pea comb influence.

However, there are other factors (of which I don't have my head wrapped around yet) that determine the differences...it is why you can get a large floppy comb on a Leghorn vs. the more subtle single comb of, say, a Cochin.

I'm guessing there are some sort of inhibitors or enhancers also in play to determine overall size.

Which is why you can get some pretty wild funk with pea comb mixes...but yet, technically a pea comb.

LofMc

EDITED TO ADD: and also the difference between both pea genes and one pea gene.