Heavy eyebrows? or Mad Hatter? or what?

[Svarthona]

Does anybody know what's going on with the head feathers of this cockerel (16 weeks old)?
Some of my other cockerels (not the hens or pullets) show similar head feathers, but their "eyebrows" are much shorter than this and do not stick up that much, iykwim.
Despite the foot feathering, vulture hocks and dark comb he is NOT a silky mutt (he's a Swedish black hen mutt

) and in three years I never hatched a crested chicken from that flock. But this one really got me wondering if those odd "heavy eyebrows" could be some sort of pitiful crest thing?

I am selecting for small combs and my flock is on the mutt side of Swedish landrace fowl which are quite variable in their appearance. They are a box of surprises and I would not be surprised if I accidentally selected for some sort of comb growth inhibiting crest like genes. His mad hat of feathers just does not look like any real crest I've seen... so I'm asking the experts

What do you think?

 

[Illia]

Looks normal to me. Often if a single combed male has excess feathers over the eye, they do that. Some do, some don't.

It's not a crest though, just feathers over the eyes that stick outward.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Handsome boy.

 

[stoopid]

Is his name Andy Rooney?

 

[zzGypsy]

don't know about the feathers, but I do like his heavy-metal rock-n-roll look!

 

[TinyChickenLady]

He is very handsome

Mine will look similar when he's older but there will be more red where your's has yellow and orange

 

[Svarthona]

Thank you everybody

He really is a nice guy and I love the contrast of the black to the orange.
Only problem with him might be that he already hunted the mailman and some passersbys

so he might turn out to be a little devil.

Hmm I'm not sure if I'm with you about this being normal Illia. I probably need to pay more attention though

But normal in my book would look like the little guys in the next picture, just short feathers slicked back and not long feathers sticking up

at least that's what I'm used to seeing around here I think.

 

[Magic Birdie]

I think it's pretty that way