What is he?

[ChickenWisperer]

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His comb looks to be too big for a faverolle cross, and wouldnt he have feathered legs if he was F1 ee/fav.? seems like he would, but im not sure. The color seems a bit strange to be a fav. cross too.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Then shouldn't he have a walnut comb? (assuming both parents are pure for their comb gene

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See, I was assuming just the opposite. I was assuming the pea comb was hetero. The pea comb does not appear to be "complete" and looks to be overly enlarged due to a single comb. But it's possible rosecomb??

Well if the wyandotte is RR and the EE is PP he will have a walnut comb: Rr Pp.
If the wyandotte was Rr and the EE PP, he could be walnut or pea combed: rr Pp. <--this fits your supposition

If the EE was Pp he could be walnut or rosecombed: Rr pp.
And if both were impure he could be any of the above or single combed: rr pp.

It looks pea combed to me, so perhaps the 2nd scenario?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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hhmmm that's cool... that explains a little better what he was saying about washes.... i think....
so like my EE's green eggs are a gorgeous green on the outside, and a stark white on the inside.. does that mean it's a white egg with a green wash? does that give us a better understanding of the genes of the hens parents??

sorry for hijacking the thread... i'll move it to PM's if SS doesn't mind.. but this is good info for other people too....
one of these days i'll get a good grasp on all this... ssoo many variable in there though.. lol...

No, the washes are all shades of brown or genes that remove brown, clearing up the white. Blue or green come from the eggshell only. I think you should compare the indside of one of your EE's eggs with the inside of a white egg or of a brown egg.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

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His comb looks to be too big for a faverolle cross, and wouldnt he have feathered legs if he was F1 ee/fav.? seems like he would, but im not sure. The color seems a bit strange to be a fav. cross too.

He would also have the extra toe on each (or at least 1) foot. Polydactyly is dominant.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Not sure why everyone always assumes a cross is a first generation cross. Often it is not. I have a number of d'uccle crosses that are far past F1 (I haven't had a d'uccle for several years), but you can still see the d'uccle in them. FWIW, a lot of them look very much like the birds for which everyone jumps on the bandwagon shouting "it's an EE!" They aren't

If a dominant gene is heterozygous, then only half the offspring inherit the dominant copy--the other half inherit a recessive copy.

 

[ve]

Sonoran you was first to look for walnut comb...

 

[chickenlover54]

I think hes pure EE

 

[ChickenWisperer]

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His comb looks to be too big for a faverolle cross, and wouldnt he have feathered legs if he was F1 ee/fav.? seems like he would, but im not sure. The color seems a bit strange to be a fav. cross too.

He would also have the extra toe on each (or at least 1) foot. Polydactyly is dominant.

I was thinking he might, but I didn't know if that was dominant. Thanks for the info

 

[pedro24]

rodriguezpoultry if its not a faveroll then what is it
and mabey you will be able to identify mine because
that looks like the exact bird as mine so.....

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

pedro,

Faverolle's have white skin. The skin of the bird is yellow. The bird also has a pea comb that looks as though it is mixed with a single comb, Faverolle's have a single comb only. Also, the Faverolles have a fifth toe. This bird does not.