Are sablepoots slower to develop combs than pekins?

KitchenKleet · Are sablepoots slower to develop combs than pekins?

I have 3 pekin and 3 sablepoot chicks all 3 weeks old the lavender pekin is def a boy from the size of his comb but the sablepoots all have small combs like the other pekins. The sablepoots certainly don't appear behind in development infact they have more feathers. I was wondering if maybe their combs grow slower? I can't belive I could possibly be so lucky as to have only a 1:5 cockrel ratio!

Sassinak

I've never kept Sabelpoots so can't comment, I have been caught out with Pekins before now, even though I have kept so many I bought a pekin pullet to go with a lone cockerel a couple of years ago she was about 3-4 months old and a lovely bird. I suddenly noticed about a month later that her head gear was growing !! It was a late developing cockerel :-(
If you end up with too many males I would be interested in buying the lavender pakin cockerel off you next spring.
I have a lavender frizzle pekin pullet with no mate :-(
If all else fails I shall put her to a black cockerel, because that apparently is the nearest match genetically !!!

KitchenKleet

Thanks for the offer but he's my favourite, like the chicken equivalent of a terrier! The other two are a red and a lemon cuckoo, also one gold millefleur and two lemon millefleur sablepoots.

Thanks for the tip I shant count my hens until they are laying.

KitchenKleet

The other slightly odd thing I have noticed is the two lemon poots are different, one has a black back and the other has a back the same colour as the rest of it. Does anyone know if this is possibly sex linked ?

Sassinak

Feathersite is normally great for pictures of thi gs like that, but they don't have much of a page for sabelpoots at all
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sabel/BRKSabel.html