Pea comb dominance

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Well, holy smokes!!! I was re-reading this topic and looked up classical genetics on the internet -- and I have bookmarked and been studying this page: http://humangenetics.suite101.com/article.cfm/genotype_phenotype_inheritance

I have been studying now for a couple of hours and feel like I have barely touched the tip of that iceberg and really am not quite understanding it at all, yet. Just so you know, smiling. I am not giving up. It is my intention this winter to become informed about genetic stuff and now you have sent me onto a huge studying quest, smiling again. I will master these simple (ya right) concepts, but it really is not just a half hour thing for me to understand even a portion of this stuff. But I am trying. My biggest thing is how to pronounce:

heterozygous
hetero zI' gus
and

homozygous
homo zI' gus
and never mind trying to remember how to spell these two words, smiling again, and again, and again. Have that wonderful day, CynthiaM.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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[speckledhen]

LOL, well, they've certainly played a trick or two on me! Like when my Blue Orp over RIR/Buff Orp cross hen produced a black barred cockerel. That was bizarre, lemme tell you!
(if you look at my blue Orp rooster, he has light and dark blue bars on his sickles, so no BR roo jumped the fence. Just never really associated his sickles with an actual barring gene!)

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Well, I have a bird who looks like a purebred brahma except that he has a rose comb

he is a silkieXbrahma cross, but I have no idea what generation he is--he's from the pest control flock. Absolutely gorgeous blue partridge.

 

[sarahere4u]

What about other comb types? I have been experimenting with an EE roo over Buttercup hens, and I get a very interesting modified comb that is single leading up to the top 1/4th, which splits into a cup. Occasionally I get a triple comb, which looks like the three rows of a pea comb, but with teeth! I call these birds 'Butterpuffs' because the coloring looks like a silver Buttercup with beard and muffs.

So what can anyone tell me about that? The pea doesn't apear dominant in that case, either, but it's not an either/or situation such as with pea/single.

So I know this post is from 11 years ago, but after so many hours of Google and BYC, you are the only person I saw that post anything similar to what I'm questioning... I have an "Ameracauna" rooster with a funky comb. Similar to what you were describing... Maybe... It looks like a mix between a single and a pea comb.. It's tall and kinda jagged like a single but has distinctive 2-3 rows or"folds?" If that makes sense.. And it flops over, always has. He meets all the criteria for Ameracauna except for his questionable comb. He may still have a pea comb, just bigger than the norm, but after going through so many different images, I'm at a loss.. I may have found one pic that shows a roo with a comb similar to his, but majority of pics were of hens with very small pea combs. I'm just dying to know if he is a true Ameracauna or I got jipped with an EE.. Since you post this, have you gained more knowledge to the genetics of your chickens or have any insight to what's going on with mine? I also have another rooster from him and a Rhode Island Blue with the exact same comb type..