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I have a pet boy with a similar comb...It is likely he will pass it on to some of his chicks, it may even impact all his offspring to some degree - larger combs, but maybe not the 'ugly' combs.
If your just wanting pet offspring from him, go for it he is perfectly fine. Now you can still breed him to try to get better offspring and he could wind up being a good breeder bird - but breed him to very typey girls with heavy full foot feathers (I see he has bald middle toes), with small combs. Since he is a beardless bird, you will want to breed him to beardless girls to get beardless offspring. if you breed him to bearded girls you will get a mix of beardless and more lightly bearded offspring, that will be somewhere in the middle of the two (bearded/beardless) - standard for beardless is barely noticeable wattles in the boys, so you may get bearded offspring with big wattles protruding through the beard - not desirable in a bearded bird.
I have a pet boy with a similar comb...It is likely he will pass it on to some of his chicks, it may even impact all his offspring to some degree - larger combs, but maybe not the 'ugly' combs.
If your just wanting pet offspring from him, go for it he is perfectly fine. Now you can still breed him to try to get better offspring and he could wind up being a good breeder bird - but breed him to very typey girls with heavy full foot feathers (I see he has bald middle toes), with small combs. Since he is a beardless bird, you will want to breed him to beardless girls to get beardless offspring. if you breed him to bearded girls you will get a mix of beardless and more lightly bearded offspring, that will be somewhere in the middle of the two (bearded/beardless) - standard for beardless is barely noticeable wattles in the boys, so you may get bearded offspring with big wattles protruding through the beard - not desirable in a bearded bird.
