Fertile eggs?

[Cool_Catrules456]

They were wrong.

The Wyandotte breed is always supposed to have a rose comb, never a Walnut comb.
Gentically, it is impossible to breed two rose comb chickens and get a walnut comb, so walnut combs will never show up in purebred Wyandottes.

The Silver Laced Wyandotte hen in your photo has a rose comb.


Rose combs can be flat (like on many Wyandottes), or they can stick up and be bigger (Hamburgs have bigger ones, and Red Caps have extremely big ones.)

Yes, Walnut combs can also be flat. Rose vs. walnut usually looks a bit different, and I am quite confident your Wyandotte hens (the silver laced and the gold laced in that photo) have rose combs. I'm not sure yet about the chick.

Ah, sorry. I did not know they can be flat aswell.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Walnut combs is basically a rose comb with bumps on it and tends to be higher your chick looks silver based and most likely will have one copy lacing

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Walnut combs is basically a rose comb with bumps on it and tends to be higher your chick looks silver based and most likely will have one copy lacing

Most likely, and thank you about the wallnut comb, I’m still learning genetics. (Got egg colors down I think) so thank you!

 

[NatJ]

I’m still learning genetics.

Genetically:

pea comb (chicken has the pea comb gene)
rose comb (chicken has the rose comb gene)
walnut comb (chicken has the rose comb gene AND the pea comb gene)
v-comb or buttercup comb (chicken has the duplex comb gene)
single comb (chicken has the genes for not-pea, not-rose, and not-duplex)

So there are three different genes that are known to control comb type. Single comb requires the recessive form of all three of them.

(Duplex comb actually has three genetic options at that place on the chromosome: one causes v-comb, one causes buttercup comb, and one lets the comb be a normal not-duplex comb.)

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Genetically:

pea comb (chicken has the pea comb gene)
rose comb (chicken has the rose comb gene)
walnut comb (chicken has the rose comb gene AND the pea comb gene)
v-comb or buttercup comb (chicken has the duplex comb gene)
single comb (chicken has the genes for not-pea, not-rose, and not-duplex)

So there are three different genes that are known to control comb type. Single comb requires the recessive form of all three of them.

(Duplex comb actually has three genetic options at that place on the chromosome: one causes v-comb, one causes buttercup comb, and one lets the comb be a normal not-duplex comb.)

Thank you! I will keep this in mind! Thanks again

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

So far so good, just as energetic as they were in the egg. Looks, sounds, acts healthy. So I’m fairly certain, they will grow up to be a fine rooster or hen. Hopefully lays green eggs, if they are a hen.
(Tomorrow, we should get an clear sign in the eggs under the second hen, if they are fertile.)

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

A green egg layer over brown should make a light olive color? Correct? After all, green (blue) is a dominant color over brown (white) so if the rooster does indeed have the blue gene, that should result in like I said, a light olive egg (by that, I mean lighter then an olive eggers)

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Mainly wanted to text if I really do know egg genetics, or if im just over confident.

 

[NatJ]

A green egg layer over brown should make a light olive color? Correct? After all, green (blue) is a dominant color over brown (white) so if the rooster does indeed have the blue gene, that should result in like I said, a light olive egg (by that, I mean lighter then an olive eggers)

I would expect daughters to lay green eggs, if you are working with normal shades of brown eggs.

"Olive" seems to mean a dark shade (like from crossing to a breed that lays dark brown eggs.)

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

I would expect daughters to lay green eggs, if you are working with normal shades of brown eggs.

"Olive" seems to mean a dark shade (like from crossing to a breed that lays dark brown eggs.)

I ment like a darker shade of green then most EE lay. Since its got another brown gene added in. I ment light olive as in a grayish green. Not as in an olive egger.