What kind of comb is this?

[Andora]

The father is a cuckoo Marans (straight comb obviously!) and the mother is a Crevecoeur (v comb) and all the chicks came out with these strange in between combs. What will they look like when they grow up?!?

 

[becky3086]

Yeah, I have a bunch of mixed Polish that look like that--straight and then split. I wonder if this is how buttercups got started?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

That right there is the ever-changing "fubar" comb.

No, I have no idea though.

 

[thecochincoop]

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Interesting I was going to say it reminds me of a buttercup

You will just have to wait and see

 

[Andora]

Fubar?

I'll keep you updated...once they grow bigger I'll post a new picture.

Becky, what do your Polish mixes look like? Are they still little chicks?

 

[Andora]

If they end up with buttercup type combs like this, I will die laughing and consider them the greatest mixed chicks ever created.

Their father had an exceptionally large straight comb, it was abnormal and huge. So you never know...

 

[becky3086]

I'll try to get some closer pictures.

 

[Henk69]

This comb is the heterozygous form of the V-shape duplex comb D^v.
When this gene is pure/2 doses most combflesh is reduced to the typical V-comb.
There is a second type of V-comb, from the buttercup D^c. That form does not reduce the combflesh when pure.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I've had a couple of these. What it ends up looking like is a single comb that you split for about half the length fron the back to the front, and spread the split sections into a V.

fubar is an acronym that cannot be completely explained here due to BYC rules about language use; suffice it to say that it means "something gone terribly wrong." Probably at least half the people who use the term don't know what it abbreviates. I'm pretty sure it has a military origin as everyone I've ever known in the service has had a general knowledge of its meaning, if not exactly what the acronym stands for.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

lol...sorry, I assumed you knew what it meant.