Is a crooked comb a sign of inbreeding?

[AmazingRachel]

Got some cream legbars from a farmer and all they're combs are crooked. Is this a sign of inbreeding or did something go wrong in the incubation process?

 

[Abriana]

So you mean flopping over or not straight up and down the front of the head by crooked?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Neither.
Its caused by the crest and varies from bird to bird. It's undesirable and should be bred away from.

 

[AmazingRachel]

So you mean flopping over or not straight up and down the front of the head by crooked?

Not straight up and down the front of the head. It looks scrunched and wavy on the bottom.

 

[AmazingRachel]

Neither.
Its caused by the crest and varies from bird to bird. It's undesirable and should be bred away from.

Is it dominant or recessive? If I breed them with a bird that has a normal comb, will the offspring have straight or crooked combs?

 

[ronott1]

Not straight up and down the front of the head. It looks scrunched and wavy on the bottom.

It is a genetics thing. Often this happens because the rooster was not the one you thought it was--Many do not wait more than 30 days after switching roosters to collect eggs for hatching so you get things like a straight comb breed x a pea comb or etc. This creates a combination comb. If you check, do you see other things like incorrect leg color? wrong body shape or egg color that is green instead of brown?

These things are important for Showing chickens though.

Inbreeding is normal and accepted for chickens. The problem that you will run into is lack for flock vigor--poor hatching and viability of chicks. Adults that have health issues too.

Post a picture so that we can see the comb and also some of the whole chicken. Let us know what the breed is too

 

[snowbird]

A lot of the hereditary faults are caused by breeding brother-sister matings. Remember also that the female also has a lot to do with the Comb shape. Try bringing in a new line and single mate with a female or two and mark the chicks so you can identify later.

 

[Abriana]

Pictures would help a lot

 

[AmazingRachel]

It is a genetics thing. Often this happens because the rooster was not the one you thought it was--Many do not wait more than 30 days after switching roosters to collect eggs for hatching so you get things like a straight comb breed x a pea comb or etc. This creates a combination comb. If you check, do you see other things like incorrect leg color? wrong body shape or egg color that is green instead of brown?

These things are important for Showing chickens though.

Inbreeding is normal and accepted for chickens. The problem that you will run into is lack for flock vigor--poor hatching and viability of chicks. Adults that have health issues too.

Post a picture so that we can see the comb and also some of the whole chicken. Let us know what the breed is too

It's particularly bad with the cockerel.

 

[ronott1]

It's particularly bad with the cockerel.

Those combs are from the vaulted skull on the CCL's. You can breed away from it but that is normal