Combs & Watlles

[jarzmom]

I have 4 barred plymouth rocks & 4 golden wyandots. 24 weeks. 2 of them (1 of each breed, and the barred rock{Barb}just started layin this week) have large very red combs & wattles, some have small, while others really have non at all. They all will eventually have full ones? And they don't lay until they do?

 

[pixie74943]

Yepp

The girls combs tend to fill out and brighten up once they start laying.. I say tend to because my ISA still looks like a baby, but I'm getting 3 eggs a day

late bloomer I guess.

 

[raroo]

Some develop earlier than others. I'm raising WR's and I have one really big girl who I thought was a cockerel when they were still in the guessing stage because she was growing big red wattles and comb so early. She's 3 months old and as big as my cockerels of the same age but with the body, tail and feathers of the other pullets. I expect great things from her! She's a huge gal who stomps around like a dinosaur.

Then some of the other pullets, all the same age, have tiny little non-existent combs and wattles.

 

[Happy Chooks]

They mature at different rates.