Wyandotte combs?

[speckledhen]

My SLW girls are all excellent layers as well. I think they're awesome, sweet girls. I'll be hatching some BLRWs sometime this spring.

 

[jab91864]

I've got the BLRWs and am hoping to add the silver laced this year. Very striking pattern. The wyandottes are great and the cold doesn't seem to affect them at all.

Julie

 

[Picco]

Speckledhen is right, the single comb comes from there cochin ancestry, along with other breeds. Breeders keep a the single comb gene floating around to increase fertility. For some reason fertility is low in rose combed birds and this can be improved with the addition of single combs into the gene pool. Single combed wyandottes cannot be shown but they can still be considered normal and can be an advantageous addition to a wyandotte breeding flock as they can still produce rose combed offspring.

 

[DoctorGoose]

Yup--I have six wyandottes--five of which have rose combs, and one has a straight comb--she is the most beautiful, of course, since I can't show her