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I'd have to read up on it, but my understanding is that the frizzle modifier is not that rare. I do recall reading about it several months back and coming away with the impression that it is fairly common, but that since it is not obvious unless one is working with frizzles it is neither...

Quote: If you bred two smooths together and had frizzled offspring, you have just proven that your birds carry the frizzle modifier. If and only if a bird has two copies of the frizzle modifier gene can it hide the presence of the frizzle gene. For a moment, let's pretend that the frizzle...

Quote: Not sure what you mean? The modifier unfrizzles the feathers. Breeding frizzle to frizzle gives you a 50% chance of heterozygous offspring, which is no different than breeding frizzle to non-frizzle. The difference in these breedings is the other 50%. Frizzle to non-frizzle also...

It depends on whether you have the frizzle modifier gene or not.

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Any bird with two doses of the frizzle gene who does not also have two doses of the frizzle modifier will have poor overly frizzled brittle feathering. If you breed two frizzles together, 50% will end up with only one dose of the frizzle gene if at least one carries only one copy.