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?
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.
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.
