Chick 10 - roo
Thanks chooks4life for your input & BantamLover & Wyandottes for your confirmation.
You're welcome, would be great to see in future how it turns out, for educational purposes.
As far as the standard goes, they have been disappointing in the muff and beard department.
I see the beginnings of muff and beard, given time they should grow more, but for sure they don't look too 'standard'.
The yellow chicks were the only obvious ones to have a little pouf, but at least some of the lavender ones have grown some crest as they have feathered in. Their comb is supposed to be a pea comb & I don't see the typical male three rows in any of the suspect males.
Can't see all their combs, but the one I quoted above seems to me to have the triple row in some reduced form. He has more of a thick side/base to his comb than a true single/straight comb chook does. I think in future you'll see more, but chances are you were supposed to be seeing more from a younger age anyway, if they were closer to standard.
It's quite hard to see what other Australian pea combs look like because there is so little information on them and very few pictures. I expect that the pea comb should be typical, but whether we have that here with the limited gene pool is something I have yet to find out. Hopefully this will change with time. : )
Good luck with that. I've seen all manner of pea combs among my mongrels, clearly the genetics are getting around, but over time the single comb came to predominate in most of my flock.
Best wishes.
