Are all frizzles really "frizzly," I thought these were but now I'm not sure...

[nanaluvsgps]

All very interesting and I did not know any of this! So is there a normal breed you would consider these?

I did not order these birds from a hatchery but for those people who DO order new frizzle chicks how can they be assured they are getting a frizzly chick and not just a normal chick with the 50/50 split? Just a question out of curiosity if anyone knows.

Thanks again for all the help!

After about 2 or so day the wing feathers will look like they are growing out from the body. Although you can have moderately frizzled chooks that you won't be able to notice the curling of the feathers until a bit later on, when they have more feathers developed.

frizzly is a gene so you could have a frizzly pekin, frizzly polish ect, so if it didn't have that frizzly (no barbs to hold the feathers straight) gene then you would just call it a pekin or a polish ect... Please correct me if i'm wrong...

 

[Kev]

There is a breed called Frizzle. Has their own breed standard and basically look like a regular chicken- clean legs(no feathers) and a medium tail and come in a limited range of colors- I recall white and buff being two of accepted colors. They were not really ever very popular or common.

Until the gene for frizzling were introduced into other breeds like cochins, polish etc then the number of *frizzled* birds skyrocketed, especially on cochins- so common that nowadays when people speak of frizzle in general most think of basically a frizzled *cochin*. This basically drove the Frizzle breed into extinction.. am not sure if any exist in USA anymore. There is still some poultry assocations in some countries that still have standard for the Frizzle breed- I know Australia is one and the Frizzle breed still exists there but again seems pretty there also.