Pea and Cushion Combs, Genetics Behind Them?

[TwistedFeathers]

Yup have plenty of photos Let me just dig them up.







Here's some pics from when they were chicks. The wee splash had a definite cushion comb even then, the others looked to have pea combs. One then later turned into a bit of a straight comb, but the other 4 have some kind of pea comb. The cockerels you can tell easily have a modified pea comb, it's there, but it's not the best. Not as distinct as it could be, with a kink to it.



Two of the cockerels. The black one had the slightly less bad pea comb, the blue red behind him has the straight, and the other blue cockerel(not pictured) has another modified pea comb.




The two blue pullets with pea combs. I will imagine that upon hitting maturity they combs will get a little bit bigger, and have the little kink in them like the black cockerel, and their mum, as that is what happened with her, her comb was nice like above, then she hit maturity and it got bigger and kinked a bit.


This is the biological mother, with her current brood of 13 adopted chicks.
It's a wonder she has kept any kind of peacomb at all, as from what i can work out, she comes from a very long line of EEs, and who knows what roos have fathered each generation, as the lady i got her off had a few different ones, and the person she got the parents off(eggs) has a huge variety all running round together, and who knows where she got them from haha

Also have a few babies that are nearly 2 months old that look to have nice pea combs, from my roo, and the 2 girls i bought in with pea combs. Will be interesting to see how they mature up comb wise, and how neat the comb stays.
Don't appear to have any good pics showing combs on the young ones, will try get some over next few days.

 

[TheBanditQueen]

Yup have plenty of photos Let me just dig them up.







Here's some pics from when they were chicks. The wee splash had a definite cushion comb even then, the others looked to have pea combs. One then later turned into a bit of a straight comb, but the other 4 have some kind of pea comb. The cockerels you can tell easily have a modified pea comb, it's there, but it's not the best. Not as distinct as it could be, with a kink to it.



Two of the cockerels. The black one had the slightly less bad pea comb, the blue red behind him has the straight, and the other blue cockerel(not pictured) has another modified pea comb.




The two blue pullets with pea combs. I will imagine that upon hitting maturity they combs will get a little bit bigger, and have the little kink in them like the black cockerel, and their mum, as that is what happened with her, her comb was nice like above, then she hit maturity and it got bigger and kinked a bit.


This is the biological mother, with her current brood of 13 adopted chicks.
It's a wonder she has kept any kind of peacomb at all, as from what i can work out, she comes from a very long line of EEs, and who knows what roos have fathered each generation, as the lady i got her off had a few different ones, and the person she got the parents off(eggs) has a huge variety all running round together, and who knows where she got them from haha

Also have a few babies that are nearly 2 months old that look to have nice pea combs, from my roo, and the 2 girls i bought in with pea combs. Will be interesting to see how they mature up comb wise, and how neat the comb stays.
Don't appear to have any good pics showing combs on the young ones, will try get some over next few days.

Pretty birds, PRETTY BIRDS!!!!! The orangey-brown hen with laced (?) feathers in the top 3 photos - is she Ameraucana? She is gorgeous.

 

[TwistedFeathers]

No she's just a mutt lol borrowed her from my friend as she went broody, and i had eggs i wanted to hatch haha

 

[TheBanditQueen]

Sometimes the mutts are the most beautiful.

 

[TwistedFeathers]

Very true. My friend isn't sure of her parentage, she thinks she hatched out of a bunch of eggs she was given last season, but i think she might actually come from one of her campine hens who appeared last spring with about 10 chicks to their big gold crossbred rooster. Half were silver/grey and half were gold/brown as chicks. Based on this girls markings, which seem to follow a similar pattern to a campine's, i'm thinking that may be where she came from. But we don't know for certain. What we do know is she started laying, then went broody, and did a fantastic job considering it was her first time
I'm also very pleased with my splash EE girl, as she is doing the best job ever with her 13 babies, it's her first time being a mum also Miss having her in the flock, as she's such a character, and the friendliest chook, but she should teach her babies that i'm not so scary as they think When they see me, they all line up waiting for goodies haha

Managed to get a couple of good comb pics of my wee cockerel with a pea comb that is from my bought in pea comb hens to my rooster with the cushion.
Will be aiming to hatch some more eggs from my two pea comb girls to hopefully get a really nice son with a pea comb to use for breeding next season. I think my two hens will produce better sons that daughters, as they both have 3 rowed pea combs. They are very minimal, but have 3 rows.So here's to hoping for some great sons from them, which is what i want from them this season
Right-oh, here is the cockerel from my 2 month olds with the pea comb. Look to be at least 2 pullets that have peas also, but can't get photos of those shy wee things








Will watch him as he grows up for sure

 

[TwistedFeathers]

An update for any interested followers.

The promising boy in the photos above developed a pea comb with a bit of a kink in it, i am thinking that would come from dad's cushion modifying it. Had to cull the cockerel due to him developing a scissor beak that got quite bad by 4 months old.

On the plus side though, i have breed two really nice pullets with pea combs this season, and have quite a few promising ones in the grow out pen.
Have also found a cockerel with an amazing pea comb, which has taken months of looking, as good pea combs are hard to find in New Zealand due to the take over of the dreaded cushion. Am looking at getting him transported down at the end of the month.

Here's a couple of photos of my two lovely pullets. The blue is a bit better than the splash, but they are both keepers.











And in this photo, the wee blue copper girl beside the splash is an ee from this season. Before she hit POL her comb was a lovely pea, but then it went and did this haha Not sure what to call it now.

 

[jennywoolrich]

An update for any interested followers.

The promising boy in the photos above developed a pea comb with a bit of a kink in it, i am thinking that would come from dad's cushion modifying it. Had to cull the cockerel due to him developing a scissor beak that got quite bad by 4 months old.

On the plus side though, i have breed two really nice pullets with pea combs this season, and have quite a few promising ones in the grow out pen.
Have also found a cockerel with an amazing pea comb, which has taken months of looking, as good pea combs are hard to find in New Zealand due to the take over of the dreaded cushion. Am looking at getting him transported down at the end of the month.

Here's a couple of photos of my two lovely pullets. The blue is a bit better than the splash, but they are both keepers.











And in this photo, the wee blue copper girl beside the splash is an ee from this season. Before she hit POL her comb was a lovely pea, but then it went and did this haha Not sure what to call it now.

They are great looking bird's . I 'm in nz breeding duckwing araucana and have had the same problem with cushion combs too. I think it's a dominating alleale and it is difficult to eradicate but if they have cushion they carry the peacomb gene tho only one in 16 may be a good peacomb( if you are lucky) lol. It's a crapshoot kind of situation with our limited genes in nz. That may be why a lot of people here focus on feather colour.