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If you read earlier, someone else explained to you why one would get single comes from a peacomb x single comb breeding.
The only incident I could imagine otherwise would be in Olive Eggers, using a true homozygous pea comb Ameraucana x single comb Marans often throws a small percent chance of single combed offspring. Otherwise, a homozygous pea combed breeding outside that scenario I have never seen throw single combs. Course, in Easter Eggers, anything can happen, as for example the green egg is a result of brown egg layers (single comb) being crossed into the genepool.
As for the Easter Egger part - Willow and Green are two different colors. An Araucana has willow legs, a nice dusted, rather pale greenish yellow color. The traditional Easter Egger, on the other hand, has a very vibrant green with yellow soles, and no ashy or pale tone to it at all.
To me, using the words heritage and/or "diluting" and Easter Egger in the same sentence should only be referring to keeping the old strains - the Quechua based or pure Quechua lines. Otherwise, if you want to complain about people ruining Easter Eggers - blame the hatcheries that did it in the first place.
Beyond that, the only diluting of an Easter Egger would be getting rid of its colored egg, which of course would get rid of its name anyway.
Oh and of course there's the very different Olive Egger, which technically is an Easter Egger, but we give it a separate name anyway.
Just throwin' some points out there.
If you read earlier, someone else explained to you why one would get single comes from a peacomb x single comb breeding.
As for the Easter Egger part - Willow and Green are two different colors. An Araucana has willow legs, a nice dusted, rather pale greenish yellow color. The traditional Easter Egger, on the other hand, has a very vibrant green with yellow soles, and no ashy or pale tone to it at all.
To me, using the words heritage and/or "diluting" and Easter Egger in the same sentence should only be referring to keeping the old strains - the Quechua based or pure Quechua lines. Otherwise, if you want to complain about people ruining Easter Eggers - blame the hatcheries that did it in the first place.
Oh and of course there's the very different Olive Egger, which technically is an Easter Egger, but we give it a separate name anyway.
Just throwin' some points out there.