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I apologize if I was pushing my points. I'm open to disagreement.

The bowtie on the neck is indicative of only carrying one frizzle gene. He has silkie as well as frizzle. If you look closely you can see it. I've had frizzled cochin bantams and they didn't have the silkied fluff to that extent.

Okay so your rooster is het Naked Neck. He will throw 50% NN offspring. Your roo is the correct sizzle, so everything I said beforehand applies :)

@ldrchickens Please include an image of the rooster in question.

And another silkie gene from other parent. Both parents would be homozygous for silkie.

No. Silkie feathering is a recessive trait. Roo is, in theory, a Silkie crossed Turken. That's how they got NN into Silkies. I'm gonna take an educated guess that the frizzle came in from the Turken heritage. Showgirls are supposed to have all of the physical characteristics of a Silkie. The...

He looks like this, ish, right? This is the correct sizzle. Frizzle on top of silkie.

There's always room to learn :)

Exactly as I thought. The OP can, theoretically, still produce regular showgirls by breeding her showgirl roo over her normal silkie hen. 50% will be normal showgirl. FYI, according to the ABA, frizzled is allowed in any breed as frizzle is nothing more than a feather mutation. Same goes for...

As for the genetics of making a showgirl, all they are is a silkie with a naked neck gene. Naked neck is dominant.

If you breed him to either silkie hen you increase your chances of producing showgirls. Depending on whether he is homozygous or heterozygous for naked neck, his offspring will either be 100% nn or 50% nn. I'll assume he's 50% for the purpose of discussion. If bred to silkies, 50% of offspring...