Comb Contest - Carnation! - Winner Announced!

[Lothiriel]

This is my rooster, obviously a male, he is 2 years old and mean as a billy goat - Eli is a Welsummer
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This is Eli's sister, Opal - she is 2 years old and a Welsummer

This is Red, my Rhode Island Red Rooster - Male that is. He is about 1 year old.

Folks, those aren't carnation combs. They're single combs. To be a carnation, it has to have the side sprigs on the back. I think you should probably enter those photos in the single comb contest instead.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

One of my Black Penedesenca roosters one year old.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/6978758/width/400/flags/LL

 

[theoldchick]

Now I know what a carnation comb is! So, this type of comb is desirable in some breeds?

 

[mama24]

Only Penedesencas.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Only Penedesencas.

Empordanesas also have the Carnation Comb, also known as King's Crest.
There are 4 varieties of Penes and the Empordanesa is a pure white bird that shares some of the characteristics.
There may be other breeds but, to the best of my knowledge, these are the only ones in the U.S.
Perhaps some European members know of other breeds with these combs, perhaps also from Catalonia.

 

[mama24]

I thought Empordanesa were the same breed, just they are called that when they are white.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

They may have the same origin but have been raised as separate breeds since the early 1900s.
Only white Empordanesa were imported into the US but in Europe there are white, black tailed blonde, white tailed blonde, blue tailed blonde, partridge and white/blonde.
That counters the suggestion that they are just any solid colored Penedesenca other than Black.

Empordanesa organizations in Spain, Germany and France consider them a separate breed.
Unlike the Penedesenca which almost became extinct by the early 1980s. The Empurda encountered the same fate much earlier in the thirties.

In Europe the egg color is supposed to be more pink rather than the intense reddish maroon of the Pene.

 

[Whittni]

Pretty cool,

 

[Lothiriel]

Only 2 submissions?! Come on folks, I know you're out there! if anyone has either an Emporadesenca or a Penedesenca, grab your camera and shoot its comb! You know... in camera lingo.

There's a free GFM waiting!

 

[Lothiriel]

Any more entries? There aren't very many in this contest, so I'd love to get some more.