EE with single comb

[Medicine Man]

I hesitate to engage in the conversation usually, but I really wish that there was a distinction between "New Quechua" and "Easter Eggers", the former being a landrace and the latter being a mutt. Fuzzy line, I know, but so is everything right?

 

[Medicine Man]

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It's thought to be approximately 5% chance of having the blue egg gene not accompanied by the pea comb. Perhaps she can pick some lottery numbers for you.

 

[punky rooster]

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thats just a very large pea comb
does it look like this from the top?

 

[knjinnm]

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It's a pea or walnut comb.

 

[punky rooster]

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It's a pea or walnut comb.

No not walnut its simply a over sized pea comb

 

[danhonour]

From a genetic standpoint the pea comb and the blue egg are close on the chromosome map,so most of the time they go together,but not always.These big pea combs may actually be carrying the single comb gene.It is possible to get single combed blue egg layers but they are rare. When they do show up and are mated together they should breed on.It is a matter of raising large numbers to allow a few to show up with the linkage broken.

 

[cashdl]

Here is an Araucana roo I used to have. He had a what I would call a single comb. His comb had no side sprigs or extra ridges. He hatched out of a blue egg.

I bred him to two of my blue araucana hens and kept some nice pullets. They have pea combs but I can't wait to see what color they lay.

He only produced 1 single combed chick. It was a roo and was eaten by one of my dogs unfortunately. 60% of his chicks were born double tufted with nice even tufts. I have a beautiful black red chick that I will use as a breeder in the spring. His comb is a nice small pea comb.

Lanae

 

[happymorrows]

I will try to take a better picture. There are no side sprigs, it is just one ridge, but it is thicker than I think the single combers are.

 

[knjinnm]

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Sooo ... Where did you bury the dog?

Joe

 

[phasianidae]

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thats just a very large pea comb
does it look like this from the top?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63711_photo-0060.jpg

no, its much larger and each (comb) is more seperate.