Single comb silkie roo?

[Teresaann24]

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I could try getting a better picture tomorrow. Both parents have a walnut comb but my rooster has a red comb instead of a mulberry comb. This is the first chick from these 2 that I have gotten a chick with a single comb.

Here is another picture of the 2 roos side by side the one from my hen and roo and the rooster from kentucky silkies.


The guy infrount is Lover from kentuckysilkies and stumpy the guy in back is the roo from my hen and roo.

 

[tiki244]

How old is he?

 

[tiki244]

Yeah tell me about picky!!! My chickens have a degree in it!!!! lol

 

[Teresaann24]

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He is 4 months old.

 

[tiki244]

Is it a combo comb or a complete single comb? It could be some combo comb. I think chickenlady has a good picture of a combo silkie comb on her comb page.

 

[Teresaann24]

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I'm not sure its just looks like a little spike.

Here is a pic of the rooster daddy of this guy with the single comb as u see he has the walnut comb but its red.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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I feel special! Someone is referencing my comb page!

Here's the link to the "crazy comb combinations" picture; I don't want to post it here because I didn't draw it.

http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd327/lbritten/ChickenCombsRossSimpson.jpg

I need to look at my genetics stuff to see what sort of combs walnut x walnut will produce.

Poulets de Cajun seems to know a LOT about Silkies (not that you guys don't or something). I was just thinking that you could ask that person if you wanted a second opinion about hen or roo.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Okay, here's the genetics stuff.

A bird with a walnut comb (your parent birds) can have one of the following four genetic combinations:

(P, P) (R, R) (P, P) (R, r)
(P, p) (R, R) (P, p) (R, r)

In order to have a single comb, a chicken has to have the combination (p, p) (r, r) (all recessive genes).

Therefore, if your chicken really does have a real single comb, your parent birds can't be anything other than (P, p) (R, r).

By the way, the ps and rs stand for pea comb and rose comb. Most comb types come from some type of combination of pea and rose comb genes. It's sort of odd, because it almost seems like more chickens have single combs than any other kind of comb. It just must be that single combed birds are more popular (for various reasons that might not even have to do with comb type) or that single comb x single comb breeds true to comb type every time.

 

[LilPeeps]

A single comb is a DQ in silkies. It is a recessive gene, so both parents myst carry it for it to show up. The parent birds, since they both have walnut combs, each carry one copy of the gene, so a single comb will pop up about 25% of the time.

 

[tiki244]

www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=96108


this is another link for an article in backyard poultry magazine that talks about different combs