Gold Laced Wyandotte Combs..... ???

[nlove_3000]

When I bought a group of chicks at 1 week old I picked them up in pairs. 2 BOs, 2 buff brahma, and 2 Gold Laced Wyandotte. They are all supposed to be pullets. I've been noticing that they are all growing well and getting unique characteristics but I can't figure this one out. My two gold laced gals have very different combs. One has a single row (just like my BOs and brahmas).

See below...I'm adding links as well in case my pics don't post like I want them to.
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And the other has a double row kind smooshed. I assume this is what the rose comb looks like?? See below.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...authkey=Gv1sRgCNXO6r6T-YCv8wE&feat=directlink

Either way I know that they are distincly different from one another. Is there a possibility that one is developmentally behind the other? or one has a defective comb? Please let me know.

 

[Break an Egg]

The single comb won't change. I've noticed it happening to many gold and silver laced wyandottes from the hatcheries, ever since I brought home 2 slw's. It's not supposed to be a single comb, but it's not going to make any difference health-wise.

Hope this helps. and

 

[GeneGoddess]

I have two GLWs. One is (hopefully) a pullet and she has a rose comb. The other is a rooster (Darn it!) and has a single comb. But the single or rose comb is not an indication of gender.

 

[Marylizbet]

Why do they have different combs, if they are supposed to have one kind? I have 3, 2 have just one little row the other is double. (They are 4 wks.)

 

[Marylizbet]

I'm wondering this to... Is it cause they aren't "purebred"? It's odd. Thanks.

 

[akcountrygrrl]

Wyandottes with single combs could either be crossbreeds or just very poorly bred birds. I got some from Ideal a few months back and some of the Wyandottes had single combs and my Old English Game bantams had crests.

Also, your Brahmas should not have single combs. They should have pea combs.

 

[Uzuri]

Rose comb is the "standard" for Wyandottes, but singles pop up now and again (something about better fertility being genetically tied to the single comb) primarily in hatchery birds. So no worried, you have what you think you have, you just got "won" the single comb lottery

 

[21Whitetigers]

I just purchased my 3 Golden Laced Wyandottes Yesterday they are about week old and noticing that 2 of the 3 have wider beaks but don’t appear to have combs and one seems to have a single comb is this normal?