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Uh-oh...looks like I have some research to do. Is there a short answer to why you can't go frizzle/frizzle? Do they end up frazzled?
Any roosters will most likely be processed or re-homed, but if that little black one ends up male, it will stay. My daughter already named it, so it is permanent.
If you breed frizzle to frizzle you do actually get a frazzle!!
The problem is their feathers are very brittle and don't grow well, they're usually sickly, and they die very easily. So it's better not to hatch them.
Wow, that was funny! (Guessing the name without knowing about it, not the condition.)
I'll have to keep that in mind if we end up keeping a rooster and do any hatching. I know I can find it through research, and will do some later, but are frizzles a recessive trait that the double recessive ends up as an issue?
This will make a wonderful Monday morning discussion for my 8th grade science class. We are wrapping up our genetics & evolution unit and I brought in the two chicks in picture #2 as a demonstration of variations in offspring.
