Easter egger, or something else!?

[annabobbob717]

Hello fellow chicken lovers! I’ve been keeping Easter eggers for years now as they are my favorite “breed”. I have one new Easter egger in my flock I ordered from the same place I’ve been going to for years. She has puffy cheeks, blue legs and the over all appearance and personality of an Easter egger. The thing is, she has a single comb! She is 6 weeks old tomorrow. I’ve never seen anything like this and I’m finding very little explanations, if anyone has any input, please let me know! I’ll attach a few photos.

 

[AlleysChicks]

Can you get a full body pic? I don’t really see a EE as that bird.

Sometimes whatever birds they breed together to make EEs, the offspring end up with single combs.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

It’s not uncommon for a single combed Easter Egger to pop up every now and then

 

[ClucksAndCombs]

She definitely looks similar to one of my EE's when she was a pullet (she's my avatar, actually). I have never had a single comb easter egger before, but there's a first for everything.

 

[annabobbob717]

Can you get a full body pic? I don’t really see a EE as that bird.

Sometimes whatever birds they breed together to make EEs, the offspring end up with single combs.

She’s a beautiful blue steel color with blue legs, she had quite puffy cheeks as a young chick but now they are a bit smaller. She has a bit of brown streaks on her chest and neck too.

 

[annabobbob717]

It’s not uncommon for a single combed Easter Egger to pop up every now and then

What do hatcherys often mix their Easter eggers with? She has brown and some barred markings here and there as well.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

What do hatcherys often mix their Easter eggers with? She has brown and some barred markings here and there as well.

Most hatcheries breed Easter Egger to Easter Egger so most of the parent stock has the dominant gene for pea combs and the recessive gene for single combs but if there is a single combed Easter Egger in the breeding flock half of this single combed Easter Egger’s chicks will have single combs.

 

[annabobbob717]

So I keep reading the single comb means she won’t be laying colored eggs then?