ok is this a pea comb?

[Loretta212]

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actually they were given to me and he is the only one out of the bunch without muffs the 2 hens i have both have muffs the guy who gave them to me said they were EEs and they were only about a month old when I got them this is a pic of one of the hens

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Pea comb gene is very closely linked to the blue eggshell gene. Whatever alleles of these genes a bird has on one chromosome are nearly always inherited together (they could come from either chromosome, but both USUALLY come from the SAME one. In a very small percentage of tme, there is crossover, and one of the genes in inherited from one chromosome and the other from the other chromosome.

 

[Chris09]

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I understand what you are saying but there a lot of Pea Comb Breed that don't nor will they lay Blue Eggs.
Examples would be;
Buckeye,
Cornish "Indian Game",
Asil
Shamo,
Brahma,
American Gamefowl

Now on the other hand the Cream Legbar is a Single comb breed and lays a Blue egg.
I'v been playing with a production blue egg laying hybrid (my breeding) that has a single and I am to the point that every hen hatched is a blue egg layer.

Chris

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

These were the 'maybe ameraucana's' that were sold as EE's and all the blue's were boys right(a black and white were pullets?)? I do think the girls will lay blue/green eggs. They might not, but I think they will.. Lets just say if they were mine I would expect green.

 

[Loretta212]

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yes i did post them before but i would like to point out that i got them for free LOL!!!! yeah i was just wondering i have been reading post about pea comba and egg color and just wanted to hear more about it

 

[mama24]

Oh, yeah, those are definitely EE girls.

Likely to lay green eggs.

I think your boy might be an EE crossed with something else, though. He really doesn't look like an EE to me at all.

 

[hdowden]

the roo may have some ee in him but hes not a pure ee(although ee's are americana's(sp) that dont meet the sop...yes i have looked it up and even was on the breed club site and thats what they said an ee was)

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I understand what you are saying but there a lot of Pea Comb Breed that don't nor will they lay Blue Eggs.
Examples would be;
Buckeye,
Cornish "Indian Game",
Asil
Shamo,
Brahma,
American Gamefowl

Now on the other hand the Cream Legbar is a Single comb breed and lays a Blue egg.
I'v been playing with a production blue egg laying hybrid (my breeding) that has a single and I am to the point that every hen hatched is a blue egg layer.

Chris

I do understand, and agree with all this. Started to use an example of crossing to a brahma, and decided it was getting too confusing. Since the birds were identified as EEs, that is why I would expect that pea combed birds would lay a blue shelled egg. If an unidentified mutt, I would not make that assertion.

 

[Chris09]

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I also know what the breed club say's a EE is but hatchery and backyard EE's are a whole another ball of wax.
90% of the EE's that are out there can and will have about anything crossed into them.

Chris

 

[Loretta212]

well i cant wait for them to lay lol im excited to see what i end up with no matter what color they lay its like a christmas surprise LOL