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Wow, congratulations on so many frizzles!
Wow, congratulations on so many frizzles!
American serama thread!
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Hey you guys, speaking of frizzles, I have a girl with something strange going on. I got her as an egg from another BYCer, so I'm not sure of her lineage. Anyways, she seems to be kind of . . . bald. I'm wondering if she might have a double dose of frizzle gene?
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yes she looks like a curly and good luck raising her.... she will need a lot of heat and higher protein foods to keep her warm.... some folks do that intentionally so that when they breed it all offspring are frizzled but sadly it isnt healthy for the bird. their plumage is brittle and doesnt grow well and they tend to be weaker than normal serama.... i hope you have good luck with her
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Oh boy, that's sad. So even if I keep her warmer and give her higher protein, she'll likely still have problems? I understand normally frizzle x frizzle results in a lethal allele, but the offspring that do hatch are just intrinsically weaker? Well, she seems okay . . . it's good to get some more information on how to care for her better, though. Thank you!
Oh boy, that's sad. So even if I keep her warmer and give her higher protein, she'll likely still have problems? I understand normally frizzle x frizzle results in a lethal allele, but the offspring that do hatch are just intrinsically weaker? Well, she seems okay . . . it's good to get some more information on how to care for her better, though. Thank you!
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My curley does just fine in with all the others. I have a 250 watt light in a 10X12 room.Here is an old pic of him.
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Oh boy, that's sad. So even if I keep her warmer and give her higher protein, she'll likely still have problems? I understand normally frizzle x frizzle results in a lethal allele, but the offspring that does hatch is just intrinsically weaker? Well, she seems okay . . . it's good to get some more information on how to care for her better, though. Thank you!
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Oh boy, that's sad. So even if I keep her warmer and give her higher protein, she'll likely still have problems? I understand normally frizzle x frizzle results in a lethal allele, but the offspring that does hatch is just intrinsically weaker? Well, she seems okay . . . it's good to get some more information on how to care for her better, though. Thank you!
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Oh boy, that's sad. So even if I keep her warmer and give her higher protein, she'll likely still have problems? I understand normally frizzle x frizzle results in a lethal allele, but the offspring that does hatch is just intrinsically weaker? Well, she seems okay . . . it's good to get some more information on how to care for her better, though. Thank you!
Oh wow, he really looks like my girl. I guess mine really is a curly! I've suspected she might be for a while, but I wasn't sure. How do the girls fare being mounted all the time? I have a feeling that's why all the feathers on her head are gone . . . do you think it's hurting her for the boy she's with to keep jumping on her without feathers to protect her?
Oh boy, that's sad. So even if I keep her warmer and give her higher protein, she'll likely still have problems? I understand normally frizzle x frizzle results in a lethal allele, but the offspring that does hatch is just intrinsically weaker? Well, she seems okay . . . it's good to get some more information on how to care for her better, though. Thank you!
Oh wow, he really looks like my girl. I guess mine really is a curly! I've suspected she might be for a while, but I wasn't sure. How do the girls fare being mounted all the time? I have a feeling that's why all the feathers on her head are gone . . . do you think it's hurting her for the boy she's with to keep jumping on her without feathers to protect her?
Ruth,
Thanks for sharing the pullet pic, she looks pretty small, he's producing some of my smallest guys. She looks wheatenish, like most of mine they are "impure" wheaten and have some other cool stuff in there. You have some awesome frizzles there! Wow wowow Your Frizzles are top notch
I think my chocolate mottle frizzle from you, CocoPuff, is nearing lay. Tonight was the first time I have seen her squat to be bred and she's with T-Roo right now. The only other hen in that pen is Candie, the hen I think is chocolate but not sure. So, Candie is laying and if I get a second egg in that pen, I'll know one of them is CocoPuffs. That will be awesome. She's going to be paired with a black rooster at some point but not yet. Be prepared for a huge woo hoo when I have the first frizzled chick from her.
Lil Miss Priss (a half sister to your little pullet there but out of my wheaten-ish hen Miss Prissy) is an A and I think she may stay an A but she's laying so I hope to have some chicks out of her soon. I have her with her half brother, Rocket, right now but she will get to be with Blu-T again too, in fact, I may have some of her eggs in the bator from that cross now. Rocket is an A, by Blu and one of the black hens. He's a really messy marked blue wheaten but I should be able to breed him to my 2 wheaten hens (Priss and her mom) and straighten out the wheaten more and get more blue wheaten roosters. Rocket's definitely got the blue gene so he only needs a good wheaten hen for more blue wheatens or blue hen for more blue hens but more messy blue wheatenish cockerels.
I figured out, finally, which roosters I need to use for my solid blue hens. Using them with my blue wheaten roosters might give more solid blue pullets but it really messes up the blue wheaten rooster color so I don't want to go there.
I have a breeding plan in my head......
really I do.
Yep the lil white frizzle looks a bit over frizzled and it looks pretty much like a cockerel to me, not a pullet, but with the lack of feathers, the wattles and comb may just look too large for a pullet.
Thanks for sharing the pullet pic, she looks pretty small, he's producing some of my smallest guys. She looks wheatenish, like most of mine they are "impure" wheaten and have some other cool stuff in there. You have some awesome frizzles there! Wow wowow Your Frizzles are top notch
I think my chocolate mottle frizzle from you, CocoPuff, is nearing lay. Tonight was the first time I have seen her squat to be bred and she's with T-Roo right now. The only other hen in that pen is Candie, the hen I think is chocolate but not sure. So, Candie is laying and if I get a second egg in that pen, I'll know one of them is CocoPuffs. That will be awesome. She's going to be paired with a black rooster at some point but not yet. Be prepared for a huge woo hoo when I have the first frizzled chick from her.
Lil Miss Priss (a half sister to your little pullet there but out of my wheaten-ish hen Miss Prissy) is an A and I think she may stay an A but she's laying so I hope to have some chicks out of her soon. I have her with her half brother, Rocket, right now but she will get to be with Blu-T again too, in fact, I may have some of her eggs in the bator from that cross now. Rocket is an A, by Blu and one of the black hens. He's a really messy marked blue wheaten but I should be able to breed him to my 2 wheaten hens (Priss and her mom) and straighten out the wheaten more and get more blue wheaten roosters. Rocket's definitely got the blue gene so he only needs a good wheaten hen for more blue wheatens or blue hen for more blue hens but more messy blue wheatenish cockerels.
I figured out, finally, which roosters I need to use for my solid blue hens. Using them with my blue wheaten roosters might give more solid blue pullets but it really messes up the blue wheaten rooster color so I don't want to go there.
I have a breeding plan in my head......
Yep the lil white frizzle looks a bit over frizzled and it looks pretty much like a cockerel to me, not a pullet, but with the lack of feathers, the wattles and comb may just look too large for a pullet.
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Smooth, I know what you mean, the lack of feathers on her head does make her comb and waddles look pretty big, and the camera angle is so close it's almost like a fish-eye lens.
But she is a pullet -- she started laying recently!
Smooth, I know what you mean, the lack of feathers on her head does make her comb and waddles look pretty big, and the camera angle is so close it's almost like a fish-eye lens.
Im sure she will be fine. My boy is now 8 months and that picture he was 6 months,He has filled out more with feathers. No bald spots.
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Oh wow, he really looks like my girl. I guess mine really is a curly! I've suspected she might be for a while, but I wasn't sure. How do the girls fare being mounted all the time? I have a feeling that's why all the feathers on her head are gone . . . do you think it's hurting her for the boy she's with to keep jumping on her without feathers to protect her?
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Oh wow, he really looks like my girl. I guess mine really is a curly! I've suspected she might be for a while, but I wasn't sure. How do the girls fare being mounted all the time? I have a feeling that's why all the feathers on her head are gone . . . do you think it's hurting her for the boy she's with to keep jumping on her without feathers to protect her?
lol, It is a boy indeed!
ICallMyselfCherie' :
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Smooth, I know what you mean, the lack of feathers on her head does make her comb and waddles look pretty big, and the camera angle is so close it's almost like a fish-eye lens.
But she is a pullet -- she started laying recently!
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Smooth, I know what you mean, the lack of feathers on her head does make her comb and waddles look pretty big, and the camera angle is so close it's almost like a fish-eye lens.
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