Comb modifier in Penedesencas

[phasianidae]

I am interested in knowing how the comb modifier in Penedesencas in inherited. Thanks.

 

[Illia]

You mean the Carnation comb? I know it's dominant, that's for sure. . . . What are you wanting to know?

 

[phasianidae]

Yes. I am curios to know how the modifier that changes the comb from a single into a carnation comb is inherited.

 

[stephanie1992]

i have a penedesenca roo and he has the weird comb. i bread him with a single comb california grey hen cuz i want to see the comb type the babies come out with, waiting on eggs to hatch still

 

[Debbi]

With my limited experience here with Marans, that evidently had Pene blood in the line, it takes two genes for the comb to express itself (show up). If a bird displays (expresses) a carnation comb, that bird has the two genes. If you have a bird with one gene who does NOT express the comb, as in has a single comb; and breed it to another bird that carries one gene, (same as the previous bird), the offspring of these two birds WILL express carnation combs! Just my experiences in a very limited breeding(s) here, other may have other ideas, but I know how it works, and now have to cull heavily.

 

[phasianidae]

Thank you.