I have spent quite a bit of time with these, I usually sit in the brooder and hand feed them at night and during the day when they're outside I'll go out every once in a while and sit in the outside pen and offer them things like kale or collards or just let them come climb all over me without...
They probably will. Since the gene is subdominant the parents can have it but not express it and their offspring will have it.
This is Lord Farquack my drake, his is teeniest little crest but his daughter has a huge one.
Princess Leia.
(Her brother in the background.)
Thanks. :D
There are five with crests and two without. When you breed a crested to a crestless you get about 50/50 however my dominant drake is also crested so he passes that on to the embryos in the eggs the other five girls lay. It is unadvised to breed to crested as it causes a lot of problems.