From the pictures I can't tell a very big difference. It could just be a roo and the comb growing. I don't know all about combs so maybe someone else can chime in.
I love baby chicks!Photos today of the two that I’m keeping from my recent hybrid hatch. Sold the rest and have another 9 scheduled to hatch on Thursday, No polish crosses yet!
Iris is the darker one and is half olive egger and half silkie and Paloma is the blue one, half splash ameraucana and half silkie! They get along just fine even though there’s about a two week age difference. 5 days old and 19 days old today!
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Thanks for the info. I have hatched (well my broodies have) quite a few chicks now and I've never seen a single comb before but have seen a couple of red combs. I want to stick to pure Silkie so I am not breeding with the red comb Silkies. Is the single comb not pure silkie? .. And by any chance could this be a little cockerel do you think? (I know extremely early so probably a far shot at a guess) as they are 5.5 weeks old and some have raised combs showing already I'm kinda guessing those are going to be little cockerels. I could take some more pics tomorrow if that might help? ... But I know its waaayy too early to make a good guess!The comb looks like it is probably a single comb to me. They'll pop up sometimes even if no parents are single combed (I've got several chicks with very similar looking combs that popped up in my last few hatches). Single combs are recessive so the gene can be hiding in the parents. Reading up on silkie comb genetics I've also read the rose portion of the comb can die leaving a single or a pea comb depending on whether the comb is a modified rose or a walnut comb.
If you want a more in depth look at the genetics that are or can be involved in silkie combs this is the article that really helped me to understand silkie comb genetics better.
https://www.chickencolours.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/What-Wattles-lowres.pdf
... sorry just read in the article the answer to my question about breeding the single comb...The comb looks like it is probably a single comb to me. They'll pop up sometimes even if no parents are single combed (I've got several chicks with very similar looking combs that popped up in my last few hatches). Single combs are recessive so the gene can be hiding in the parents. Reading up on silkie comb genetics I've also read the rose portion of the comb can die leaving a single or a pea comb depending on whether the comb is a modified rose or a walnut comb.
If you want a more in depth look at the genetics that are or can be involved in silkie combs this is the article that really helped me to understand silkie comb genetics better.
https://www.chickencolours.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/What-Wattles-lowres.pdf
Love your chook, and the mushroom too!
