Ok i just looked it up and the single comb is the recessive, (yes I actually read something outside this forum)
Which just means that a dominique could still come up with an offspring with a single comb unless the gene was completly removed a long time ago through some serious culling and...
What I read was that barred rocks were derived from dominiques, dominiques are supposed to be the oldest breed in U.S.
Based on everything iv'e read , it seems like dominiques were bred to something else creating a variety of different Plymoth rock types; one of which resembles the dominique...
In responce to houseofclucks posting about his coop design:
Im starting this as a new thread in this category.
I am still trying to figure out the difference between barred rocks and dominiques.
Is there really any difference or is it only at the show level that they make the distinction.
As...