2 roos look alike, one frizzled, one normal - breed???

[skyedobb]

- flat feathers

- frizzle


From a very mixed flock/hatch so they could be mutts...but since they both look so alike (minus frizzle vs. flat), thought maybe not? Hatched May '09.

 

[Cats Critters]

They look like EEs to me, but one question what color are their legs?

 

[lcw]

are you sure thats frizzled. looks like its got silkie feathers. anyone else agree?

 

[FLF]

Looks like an EE and a silkied EE. Very Pretty!

 

[Candachan]

The color patterns look an awful lot like Faverolles roosters.

 

[skyedobb]

The frizzle/silkie one has greenish/brownish/yellowish/grayish legs, and the smooth-feathered one has more brown/gray/black eggs, but in the right light I could be convinced that they have some green. I was thinking EE, too... Here are the potential breeds of the mixed flock: Roosters = golden polish, black cochin, easter eggers (blue,white and black feathers),welsummer,salmon faverolle and cuckoo maran; Hens = speckled sussex, gold polish, cresevour, dorkings,rhode island red, turken. I don't think the person I got the eggs from has any silkies, so that's why I was leaning frizzle. I've never been around frizzle so I really don't know. They're really nice roos, not aggressive at all, and what they are doesn't really matter. I was trying to sell them b/c I do have a couple/few too many for my hens especially with decreased roaming in winter but no one took me up on it. I was just curious.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

How many toes do they have?

 

[skyedobb]

Haven't gone outside to check on toes yet but did email the person I got the eggs from and she did have a silkie roo and no frizzle, so it likely is a silkie cross! Thanks for that tip!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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And actually, I don't know that the toe thing will be that helpful now, as Faverolles, Dorkings, and silkies all have 5 toes! I think we can guarantee who the second roos daddy is though! That's definitely a silkie cross!

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Those are silkied feathers, not frizzled. Silkie feathers can be the result of a genetic mutation, not necessarily from a silkie parent. The only way to know for sure is to find out what their lineage is.