Faverolles Thread

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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AND I just saw they have a walnut comb, not a pea comb...hmm...anybody here know about wanut comb x single comb genetics??

 

[Shannon's Chix]

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Great! I was planning on seeing if you had any available after these hatch out!

You betcha!! Just let me know when you're ready for some!!

Thanks! I will!!!

 

[keesmom]

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I found this on another thread a while back. From The Chicken Lady. She also has a page on combs.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=9280-



Okay, here's the genetics stuff.

A bird with a walnut comb (your parent birds) can have one of the following four genetic combinations:

(P, P) (R, R) (P, P) (R, r)
(P, p) (R, R) (P, p) (R, r)

In order to have a single comb, a chicken has to have the combination (p, p) (r, r) (all recessive genes).

Therefore, if your chicken really does have a real single comb, your parent birds can't be anything other than (P, p) (R, r).

By the way, the ps and rs stand for pea comb and rose comb. Most comb types come from some type of combination of pea and rose comb genes. It's sort of odd, because it almost seems like more chickens have single combs than any other kind of comb. It just must be that single combed birds are more popular (for various reasons that might not even have to do with comb type) or that single comb x single comb breeds true to comb type every time.

 

[thechickonthehill]

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Oh My, Oh My, I am just beside myself!

The blues are awesome, and the buffs, and the ermines and . . . I want them! I'm going to have to go in search of a good genetics book. I think I've just discovered what I want to do for the rest of my life! Thanks for posting that link Melissa. I'm going to save it to drool over indefinitely.

 

[thechickonthehill]

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It seemed to take my fav roo forever to learn to crow. I heard some pathetic rusty hinge attempts at around six months or so but very rarely. He is a little over 8 months now and has been just crowing his heart out for that past month, very respectably too. He seemed to just all of a sudden figure it out and once he did, he never misses an opportunity to sound off.

 

[keesmom]

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The Genetics of Chicken Colours by Sigrid Van Dort. I think it was $100, but if you want to drool over some gorgeous birds, it's the one to get!

 

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The Genetics of Chicken Colours by Sigrid Van Dort. I think it was $100, but if you want to drool over some gorgeous birds, it's the one to get!

I spent some time today drooling over that book! Can't afford it right now, though. Maybe someday....

Kathleen

 

[keesmom]

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There is an ebook version that costs less, if I remember correctly. I couldn't get that because we still live in the stone age with a dial up line. I also like to sit and read sometimes while not at the computer!

The book is great if you can get it sometime. Very easy to understand and tons of pictures!

 

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There is an ebook version that costs less, if I remember correctly. I couldn't get that because we still live in the stone age with a dial up line. I also like to sit and read sometimes while not at the computer!

The book is great if you can get it sometime. Very easy to understand and tons of pictures!

I'll look for it -- although if it's something I want to keep and refer to, I prefer the hard copy. Can't count on computers to be working when you need them, for one thing, and for another, it's easier on my eyes to read the hard copy! But I totally understand why it's so costly, with all those beautiful pictures!

Kathleen

 

[pasofinofarm]

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The Genetics of Chicken Colours by Sigrid Van Dort. I think it was $100, but if you want to drool over some gorgeous birds, it's the one to get!

That book is on my wish list. I am a genetics dunce and need help. I figure that within a variety I am doing well breeding excellent phenotypes... and chickens have such a short time to reproductive age that you can correct mistakes pretty quickly.. but there is so much more I would love to do if I just had the know how.