Silkie Lovers, Show Off Your Fuzzy Chickens Here?!

[MysteryChicken]

Okay

I wasn't sure how to respond.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

That's okay don't worry about it

 

[MysteryChicken]

That's okay don't worry about it

Okay. Wanna see how much my red JungleFowl pullets have grown since the last time I posted them?

 

[MysteryChicken]

 

[The Moonshiner]

Walnut combs contain the same genes that produce single, & rose combs. The single comb gene is recessive in silkies, & only small 25% of single comb silkie offspring will be produced by both walnut combed parents.
My porcelain D'Uccle X White Silkie mix has a rose comb.

Walnut combs are a combination of rose and pea combs.
Any decent line of silkies shouldn't produce or carry single comb genes.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Sure you can show me them

 

[MysteryChicken]

Sure you can show me them

Okay. Here are the ladies.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Walnut combs are a combination of rose and pea combs.
Any decent line of silkies shouldn't produce or carry single comb genes.

Rose combs can produce single combs occasionally. So if walnut combs are combination of both pea, & rose combs, then there's still the small chance for single combed offspring.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...e-heritiability-of-the-rose-comb-trait.65504/

 

[The Moonshiner]

The only way rose comb birds can produce a single comb offspring is if both parents carry a gene for the single comb and an offspring gets that single comb gene from both parents.
If a breed is supposed to have a rose comb or in silkies the walnut comb they should NOT have genes for the single comb.
If your silkies are producing single comb offspring then they're carrying genes they shouldnt be and that in turn makes them an inferior line or a crossed line.
Any decent line would not have single comb genes let alone in both sexes and would never produce single comb birds.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

They're pretty