Throwback Single Comb

[FARMminiature]

I am purchasing a silkie with a throwback single comb? What does that mean? Do silkies normally have a throwback single comb?

 

[Skyle]

I am purchasing a silkie with a throwback single comb? What does that mean? Do silkies normally have a throwback single comb?

They usually don't have it, unless it's a colour created recently. What I'm guessing it's that her/his ancestors were crossed with something else some generations ago to improve the colour. Though, hatchery quailty silkies sometimes have single combs because they prefer to hatch in big quantities than hatch quality chicks so they don't choose only the best parents and the chicks sometimes have defects with the standards (i.e. whitish cemani, wyandottes with single combs, brahmas with very little feet-feathering and marans that lay non-dark eggs)

 

[sourland]

It means there is probably some non silkie DNA in the bird. It's not uncommon in hatchery bred birds.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ya "throwback" is a fancy word for there was something else mixed in at some point and their unwanted genes are still being carried in the blood line.