Another Cochin color question...

[Sonoran Silkies]

I read somewhere that the frizzle modifier is actually quite common; wish I remembered where.

 

[tellynpeep]

I guess I should have figured that, with all the different colors/mixes and dilution factors, it would be a bit more complex than breeding Labrador Retrievers and predicting colors of the offspring!
Mary

 

[wilds of pa]

We have been thinking about crossing some buff orps with some of our "lavender/pearl gray/self blue" orp projects birds down the road.

We would like to call them Butter Cream Orpingtons..

The first gen would only be carrying the lav gene in the buff but once crossing The F2's-f3's they should become very light cream id think...

Charlie

 

[Krys109uk]

Sonoran Silkies, did you read that about the frizzle modifier in a recent book? Hutt wrote that it was "Quite common" but that was in 1936. When I first read about them, in Hutt's book, I tried discussing the subject with a lady called Glenda Heyward in USA but she didn't seem to acknowledge them at all....that was some years ago. I never did experience it myself nor have I heard of ayone else experiencing it...but that was in UK & I no longer keep frizzles (which is the name of a breed with frizzle feathering in UK).

Charlie,
The buff with lavender thing is a nice. You might also lose some of he resricting genes carried by the buffs which makes the outcome even prettier

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I read about it online; it could have been Hutt, but I don't think the reference was that old. It documented test breedings and found fm prevalent in a number of breeds--many of which are not ones where one typically finds frizzled birds.

Glenda has bred frizzles for many years; I know she has written about fm, and seems to strongly believe in its presence; accounting for frizzled birds from smooth parents.

This year is my first experience with frizzles (working on sizzles), so I have some knowledge and theories from books/references, but not from practical experience.