Is this a breed or a mutt?

[redhen]

very pretty birds!

 

[Wild Chicken]

Pretty bird..........

 

[ksacres]

pips&peeps :

The GLW has a single comb, she's probably mixed too.

This is what I was going to say.​

 

[Harley's girl]

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This is what I was going to say.

I have a GLW that has a single comb. She is pure and beautiful....just has a single comb.

 

[marymac]

Harley's Girl...

That is one Majestic Rooster you have on your BYC homepage. Is he as big as he looks?

 

[pipermark]

Single combs happen more within line breeding without proper culling. You will find that instances of single combs in Wyandottes increase dramatically when purchasing birds from hatcheries. However, these are Wyandottes, not mutts. I just wouldn't consider them good breeding stock.

 

[Harley's girl]

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Oh yes he is! Well, I mean he was.

Harley died this last September. He was a very dear pet to me.

I have lots of his offspring and lots of chicks around the USA. (He was a busy fella

) LOL

 

[MichiganWoods]

Thanks for posting this. You've sort of helped me figure one of mine out.

GLW = Golden Laced Wyandotte? Our little black mix hen started getting brown feathering around the neck just like that. The only difference is that she doesn't have the white striping, but rather the metallic green-tinted black of the Australorp. The lady we got this hen's hatching egg from has black Australorps, and even she thought that's what the chick was just after hatch.