Please tell me I have a pretty pullet!

[LaFleche]

He's a teenager right now, here's pictures I got of him last month I believe. He's 13-14 weeks in these pictures. His coloration isn't leakage, just a color I'm breeding for. My sister's EE/F1, Wheaten Crele Orpington cross has leakage though.
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Reminds me somewhat of a Bielefelder Kennhuhn.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I don't have a cuckoo maran, and the only other rooster, a blue copper maran, I had was only 11 weeks old at the time and didn't start crowing until he was maybe 14 or 15 weeks old. He was very slow to mature. In addition, the single comb is a recessive gene, so if the maran rooster and the barred rock were the parents, the chick would have to have a single comb.

I thought you said you had a Cuckoo Maran.
If any of the single combed parents are hiding the pea comb gene, then you can have offspring with a pea comb.
The chick will still maybe have leakage with the crossing of Black Copper Maran.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Reminds me somewhat of a Bielefelder Kennhuhn.

Someone else said the same thing .

 

[ColtHandorf]

Pullet

 

[SBFChickenGirl]

Reminds me somewhat of a Bielefelder Kennhuhn.

That's what I was going to say! I've got Biels.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I thought you said you had a Cuckoo Maran.
If any of the single combed parents are hiding the pea comb gene, then you can have offspring with a pea comb.
The chick will still maybe have leakage with the crossing of Black Copper Maran.

It is my understanding that no other genotype can be present with a single comb gene. " A chicken with a single comb has the only possible gene combination: rrpp." so that should rule out the maran/barred rock combo entirely. By default, the only other option would be the white rooster and the buff brahma, as she is my only feather footed hen, and only she and the barred rock lay light brown eggs.

https://poultry.extension.org/artic...e absent,only possible gene combination: rrpp.

 

[MysteryChicken]

It is my understanding that no other genotype can be present with a single comb gene. " A chicken with a single comb has the only possible gene combination: rrpp." so that should rule out the maran/barred rock combo entirely. By default, the only other option would be the white rooster and the buff brahma, as she is my only feather footed hen, and only she and the barred rock lay light brown eggs.

https://poultry.extension.org/articles/poultry-anatomy/poultry-genetics-an-introduction/#:~:text=A chicken with a pea,result is a walnut comb.&text=When both genes are absent,only possible gene combination: rrpp.

I know about comb genetics, & the appearance of a single combed bird with hidden pea comb genes sometimes have a single comb with a split end, & I see this with my EE/Brahma crosses, & I'll have to get a picture of it.

Here's a Modified Pea comb on a Broiler silkie, it has the floppy appearance of a large single comb mixed with pea comb.

It has 3 rows of blades.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

My bet is on cockerel.
Please update as this bird matures.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I know about comb genetics, & the appearance of a single combed bird with hidden pea comb genes sometimes have a single comb with a split end, & I see this with my EE/Brahma crosses, & I'll have to get a picture of it.

Here's a Modified Pea comb on a Broiler silkie, it has the floppy appearance of a large single comb mixed with pea comb.View attachment 2381513
It has 3 rows of blades.

Not trying to disagree, just trying to understand, but from my understanding, if two straight comb chickens have off spring, there would be no other possible genotypes to express a different variety of comb, but if a pea comb and a single comb mated, if the pea comb had the recessive gene, they could either produce a single comb or a pea comb chicken.

Also from my understanding, if a chicken with a pea comb and chicken with a rose comb (the comb type of my rooster) have offspring, they could produce a walnut comb, a rose comb, or a pea comb. The three other chicks all had EE moms with pea combs, and the buff of course is a pea comb. So far all chicks have a pea comb except one, and it either has a walnut or a rose comb, but it's still too small to tell exactly.

Again, that's just been my understanding of things. Chicken genetics have been very confusing and I'm going off of my ancient knowledge of genes from high school...

Also your rooster (is he a roo?) is beautiful and the comb is so unique!!

 

[humblehillsfarm]

My bet is on cockerel.
Please update as this bird matures.

Oh I definitely will. This little chick has driven me to post several times about it! The first mystery was its potential parentage. I thought it would be very cool to reintroduce that chick to actual barred rocks and create a larger bird, but I won't actually do that since my main focus is breeding blue and black copper marans and olive eggers from maran and blue americauna crosses.