SLWs? 10 weeks

[TOMTE]

Both are from Family Farm & Home, they were in the BSL bin and I used a guide to identify them when we first got them.

Here they are as young chicks (I think I took these pics the day or day after we brought them home)

And here they are now at 10 weeks. First Gytha:

She has a single comb

And Magrat:

Is that a rose comb? With a spike? Or something else?

Are they Silver Laced Wyandottes? And can someone explain how combs come into play in different breeds? SLWs are supposed to have rose combs but Gytha has a single comb. As another example, SGEs are apparently supposed to have pea combs but I've seen a lot of pictures of ones with single combs. It doesn't seem so set in stone to me so it confuses me sometimes.

 

[Tookie]

Yes, both are SLWs! Single combs will pop up in hatchery quality birds, or birds that technically aren't a breed, like SGEs. I've seen single combs pop up in SLWs many times on here.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Agreed hatchery quality SLW.

 

[TOMTE]

Yes, both are SLWs! Single combs will pop up in hatchery quality birds, or birds that technically aren't a breed, like SGEs. I've seen single combs pop up in SLWs many times on here.

Agreed hatchery quality SLW.

Thank you both
Any idea what comb type Magrat has?

 

[Tookie]

Thank you both
Any idea what comb type Magrat has?

She has a rose comb, like SLWs should have.

 

[TOMTE]

She has a rose comb, like SLWs should have.

Yay! All of the other 4 have single combs so that's exciting to me

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Thank you both
Any idea what comb type Magrat has?

Looks just like a non fully developed pea comb.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Some of the breeds that were used to create wyandottes had single combs, so it does pop up from time to time. Because single combs are recessive to both rose combs and pea combs they can hide in breeds that are supposed to have the dominant comb type. It's pretty common in hatchery wyandottes, where they're more concerned with the number of chicks they hatch than how well their birds match the breed description.