Frizzle cochin bantam roos we are considering buying...quality questions, looking for advice! :-)

My daughters have two cochin bantams that won Grand and Reserve at our county fair, and they want to hatch chicks to show in next year's fair. We are looking for a rooster to purchase (they really want a frizzle for some reason), but we live in a very rural area and the closest we can find are 3 hours away (we are in SW Iowa).

We received pictures of the 2 that are for sale, and I'm concerned about quality, and also feather quality.

The red one is 1 1/2 years old (from two frizzle parents) and the red/black one is 1 year old.

I'm wondering if the red one has poor feather quality due to coming from 2 frizzles. The black/red one has better feathers, but the feathers aren't very frizzled.

And, why don't they have feathers on their necks?

Looking for thoughts...I don't know anything about frizzles and I'd hate to buy a rooster that would produce poor chicks!

Toni

PS Also, does this bad feather quality look like it is environmental or due to moulting, or genetic?

Breeding two frizzles together is a no no. This is what is wrong with their feathers.

In order to show any babies you would need a roo the same color as the hens. So the variety stays pure.

The bigger one looks a little too big. Also maybe has scaley mites on legs but hard to tell in picture. The eyes are too light on the smaller one.

This time of year is a good time to buy extra birds from good breeders across the country. A lot of people ship their birds. Also, if there is a show in your area you may be able to find one.

Hope this helps.

Maybe you can help me with a genetics question...I am into horse color genetics so understand some of the talk, but haven't researched chicken genetics. If you have time to help with these questions, I'd love the input!

If a chicken was a result of a frizzle to frizzle cross and got the frizzle modifier from each parent (homozygous), will 100% of its offspring from non-frizzled chickens be normally-frizzled?

We also have access to a frizzle with beautiful feathers (heterozygous), but it is a different color and has a too-large comb that flops over. We don't want to use him, but it did create this question for me. Do a nicely-frizzled chicken's frizzled offspring tend to inherit the same quality of frizzled feathers, or does the amount of frizzle-feather quality vary? In other words, should we regard the quality of feathers on a heterozygous frizzle highly, or is the frizzle feather quality inheritance a "luck of the draw" situation?

Our cochin bantam females (2) are different in color. One is red, and the other is reddish with black barring (I'm probably not expressing that correctly...my daughter could describe the color better). The judge at the show said he had never seen better feather quality on chickens than these two have, which I don't know whether is due to the chickens themselves, or the environment/coop and our feed.