Golden Lace Wynadotte with a single comb.

[youngbiddy]

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The rooster in the picture..is Beautiful.

Thank you! Goldie Locks is stunning, and I bet she'd have lots of gorgeous, rose-combed babies. Unless you're going to get into serious GLW breeding I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[punky rooster]

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I think you are wrong there. SC birds pop up in wyandottes due to heritage. I think 5% of offspring?.
IMHO I would take the much better typed bird over the bad typed and proper comb, then cross them back to the RC birds. After that I would not cross another SC bird agian and the type is all set & the rose combs are back.

 

[Jake Levi]

Well, you are wrong, for what I wrote previously.

If, a SC shows up in a flock it means that BOTH parents carried the gene for SC, that is the only way even one can show up in a flock, both the rooster and the hen carry it, so ALL of the chicks from the rooster are suspect, as half of them will carry the SC gene. No way it can be a purebred flock, no matter what you think.

This is why the breed has a SOP, and why the SC is a major fault. If the flock isnot eligible to be shown its not a purebred flock, no matter how many other good traits that they have, its not a debateable issue, it was settled over a hundred years ago in the SOP.

I dont know where you got the 5% figure from. Commercial prodiction flocks, could be, not Heritage Flocks bred and shown to the SOP.

 

[punky rooster]

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I know you are new to chickens so listen up.

•Q- We recieved a single combed Wyandotte in a shipment from you. Can you tell me if they are any good for breeding or showing?
A- Single combs show up in all Wyandotte lines and can be directly related to fertility. Many Wyandotte breeders will tell you to breed out the single comb is to breed out fertility. We do on occasion use single comb pullets in our breeding pens but advise that if at all possible avoid using a single comb male as he will quickly bring up the ratio of single comb offspring. We have found that a good ratio is 10% to 15% single comb offspring is an acceptable amount. A single comb is a disqualification in the show pen.

From Paul's poultry site, heritage Wyandotte breeder. Ask around, you will see.​

 

[Chris09]

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I know you are new to chickens so listen up.

•Q- We recieved a single combed Wyandotte in a shipment from you. Can you tell me if they are any good for breeding or showing?
A- Single combs show up in all Wyandotte lines and can be directly related to fertility. Many Wyandotte breeders will tell you to breed out the single comb is to breed out fertility. We do on occasion use single comb pullets in our breeding pens but advise that if at all possible avoid using a single comb male as he will quickly bring up the ratio of single comb offspring. We have found that a good ratio is 10% to 15% single comb offspring is an acceptable amount. A single comb is a disqualification in the show pen.

From Paul's poultry site, heritage Wyandotte breeder. Ask around, you will see.​

Maybe it is a "Wyandotte thing" but I have Rose Comb Reds, Dominique and Wyandottes and never had a problem with there fertility and never had to breed in single combs to increase fertility.

Chris

 

[punky rooster]

I am sorry, that was not a reliable source I copied it from.

 

[LaDuBird]

Hi....I also have a GLW from mypetchicken that has a single comb instead of a rose comb.

I've also found my SLW to be very aggressive and bossy - not with me, but the chickens. The two SLW rule together. Major bullies.

Is this common of SLW....that they are a dominant chicken?

Thanks!@

 

[PeakyBeaky]

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No-ours are not, depends on the chicken. Even our roo is sweet, he's doing 4-h this year with my 11yo daughter.

 

[Jake Levi]

There is dominance among most chickens, it differs in degrees, if its too strong they are a candidate for the stew pot, temperament has one of the highest coefficients in genetics that there is. Bad temperament breeds bad temperament.

Something I noticed on the farm long before grad school.

It makes a big difference where Wyandottes come from, commercial production hatcherys, or Heritage Breeders. Some call themselves Heritage Breeders, Pauls Poultry was mentioned earlier, those interested might want to just post a question as to the veridity of their Wyandottes, some of which he admits were from a production hatchery, and recent outcrosses to other breeds. Just food for thought. Worth looking into if you'd like to know about the various Heritage breeders. Sandhill and Duane Urch are hatcherys, with Heritage Chickens.

Ask either of them about SCs among Wyandottes. Theirs by btw, are RC and donot produce SC. Period. There is a Lady here, Mrs Turbo who has excellent Wyandottes, check out her website, no SCs there. I could go on but its getting late and I dont want to belabor the point, folks have to make their own decisions, once they get the needed information. Their choices then are their choice, single combs can make fine layers in a home flock, they just wont make it in a Wyandotte class at a show for a major fault.

Jake

 

[punky rooster]

Jake,
I opolojise, I was wrong.