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can anyone answer this? I have a cockerel whose granddad (who may have sired him, else his sprig-less son) had mere stubs, but he's practically got a coronation comb, the sprigs are so large. It would be nice to know the chances of him passing it on.

thank you!

Thank you for these clarifications. I have been struggling to understand how one of last year's youngsters has no crest when I know who is her dam, and she has a small crest, and I understood it's dominant over no crest. But I didn't before connect that a small crest means the dam may pass on...

can you label those skulls please with the variety/breed of bird they came from?

sure, herewith from last May her shanks and feet (cut off in this photo) are grey/slate.

thank you; that's very helpful for clarifying that the dame is not pure. The same pair also produced a pullet who is a month younger than that silver duckwing cockerel; can you tell from her phenotype what the dame's impurity might be?

yes his mum looks just like that. I have wondered if she was not pure because her eggs are only faint blue. If he's got a beard, it's a very small one, and not visible in any photos I've got of him. The photo below is of the bird that was his dad, I think

the lavender araucana (British type, with tail and no ear tufts) has both crest and pea comb; that's who I assume was his dame. so that did come from the partridge penedesenca sire then? or have I misunderstood?

thank you kindly @3KillerBs @RoostersAreAwesome and @NagemTX 3 different answers so far, so I guess it isn't obvious, and I don't feel such a numpty now :p on the silver duckwing suggestion, I have a silver duckwing welsummer hen but I don't think she was the mum/grandmother, because this guy...

This cockerel's sire was a gold based partridge (Penedesenca) and his mum was lavender (which is modified black if I've understood it right, but I'm very unsure about that), so where does the white come from?

nice site thanks, but I grow few veg and the chickens don't get access to them, so it must be coming from one or more of the ornamentals or weeds or insects they forage; any useful links up your sleeve for them? Is iron also responsible for the pink/plum bloom?

Do you happen to know what in the garden might supply such iron? And what the pinks and plum colours?

I can testify to it; the bloom can change the shade quite a lot, though I have not yet discovered what food produces what shade (I think the cause here at least is dietary not light / vit D related). So I have a penedesenca whose eggs are normally a mid brown but sometimes look light...

I managed to get a photo of it today. More like a jester's hat than a crown I'd say :D

@nicalandia can you please tell me about the occurrence and inheritance of a coronation comb? I ask because I noticed today that a cockerel I thought had been sired by a Swedish Flower (with single comb, but his father has two small spurs at the back of his comb) has actually grown a rather...

great; thanks. So as his mum lays blue eggs and his dad carried dark brown, will he carry genes for olive eggs, or just one or the other colour?

thanks for replying; I have two SFH roos, one has yellow shanks but his dad has white ones. Does that make a difference?

The araucana has a full crest. The penedesenca doesn't.

this 5 month old cockerel's mum is a lavender araucana - source of his pea comb and black plumage I think, and maybe the grey legs. His dad has to be either a Swedish Flower (is or looks like my avatar but with yellow legs) or a partridge Penedesenca; I'm guessing it's the latter, but I think...