Single comb blue/green egg layers?

[Morgan7782]

Tim, yep Black Copper Marans.

At least it will be a dark brown egg lol!

Better than my Wyandotte who's brown egg color is almost white hehe. She is really pretty though, looks like a Black Copper Marans, with the Ameraucana face. I am excited to see what color or shade she will lay

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Here's another single comb green-egger:

I thought she might be an Andalusian (I hatched some And' chicks a while back and thought I got rid of all of them), but couldn't ever catch her laying an egg.
Ha! I caught her laying an egg (marked sc blue):

Lisa

 

[stoneunhenged]

You're looking for 1) a single comb chicken that 2) lays green or blue eggs, and 3) breeds true with each generation?

As Highander mentioned, cream legbars meet your definition. There's also this interesting bird from Wales that appears to have a single comb from the pictures and lays truly spectacular eggs:

http://www.welshwoolnwings.co.uk/page5.htm

I hope this helps.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! This hen in the pic from the link

has a strange comb. Would that be called a single comb?

I put my blue SCGE and blue barred SCGE girls in with the Silver Campines. It's an interesting anomaly, if nothing else.

Lisa
edit: SCGE = single comb green-egger.

 

[stoneunhenged]

Yes, the pic of the weirgloddau hen is at the wrong angle to get a clear view of the comb. But, I've seen pics of the male weirgloddau. Definitely a single comb on them.

 

[sonew123]

This is a cool project that I have going at home. I have held back some single combed olive egger pullets. Some are POL and I can't wait to find out wehat she lays! I couldnt just let them go because they have single combs-they are after all-egg layers. So I kept a few for me before selling the rest off to see what I would get for eggs

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Ooh Natalie, I hope you get some green-egg layers from them.
I wondered how that worked with selling 'olive-egger' eggs --- what percent of the girl-chicks hatched *actually* lay olive-eggs?

Lisa

 

[Kev]

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ALL of my colored egg layers are single combed, except for one rose comb(still a single comb in this concept). Had them for over a decade by now.

I've mentioned them whenever possible or pointed out the single comb in various threads and forums through the years. There's simply no interest in them, or people talk about being interested but don't even attempt to get any. I even mentioned them to someone who was thinking of re-creating Legbars in USA but she simply didn't reply to me.

 

[Kev]

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She has a single comb, it looks odd due to presence of crest. Crests tend to deform or mess up combs, especially single combs. My original single comb blue eggers had crests, their combs looked much like that. Once I cleaned out the crest gene out of the stock, their combs were normal.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Kev! Thanks for that. I have some Polish-cross girls with frayed combs like that, but wouldn't have thought the crest caused it.
I never thought single comb green-eggers were a *special thing* until this thread!

Lisa