Are Frizzle Cochins Usually Runts?? Pictures!

[Smoky73]

I fI may add a comment here, I used to have frizzles from hatcheries before and some are very tiny but most of the time the hahtcheries are mating frizzle to frizzle as they try to get the most frizzles out of the experience, so you will end up with badly frizzled birds such as those all look to me, the feathers themselves are thin, and sparse looking and fragile. A professionally bred frizzle bird has much different appearance to the feathers than the hatchery ones. I think this can also be the cause of the stunted growth if you will of the birds themselves, a genetic misfit. Mine were like the first red one, the feathers seem so scant compared to my friends birds who were breeder quality., yeah tey covered her body but barely. She was always extremely warm year roound.

 

[ParrotsNPullets]

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That makes sense and would explain a lot. Pippy's feathers are filling in a lot more but she's certainly much much less feathered than our show quality non-frizzled BBS cochin bantam that is a year older. I hope she'll survive the winters here in New York.

 

[hipeatall]

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Oh dear... it does get real cold in NY ... perhaps you should send Pippy to winter here in Texas with BeBe...

 

[joanie_maine]

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I agree with this comment about hatcheries.

Here's pic of two of my frizzled bantam cochin pullets ("Gigi" and "Iman") and their buddy "Handsome" who is a black roo.

 

[hipeatall]

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My frizzle chick (BeBe, pictured a few posts back) has been slow to feather and is smaller than it's hatchmates... but it is not from a hatchery. BeBe is breeder quality... a professionally bred frizzle bird... and is not from a frizzle to frizzle breeding. Of the 4 chicks I hatched... this was the only frizzle and it is the only one that is small and slow to feather... the others with smooth feathers have developed "normally". So my BeBe, who is being described as a "misfit" and "badly frizzled" bird

, came from a reputable breeder right here on BYC.

 

[sgtmom52]

This is my 5 month old bantam frizzle cochin BJ (possible mix ?) she feathered out in normal time and is slightly bigger than her hatch mate smooth bantam cochin cockerel Bug which hatched from an egg from a frizzle hen. The eggs were purchased on a BYC auction.

BJ

Bug

 

[twix1234]

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How old is your chick? Mine is 5 weeks old. No adult feather except on his wings.

 

[hipeatall]

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How old is your chick? Mine is 5 weeks old. No adult feather except on his wings.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/59408_img_2991.jpeg

BeBe hatched out June 4th. So he was about 2 months when that picture was taken and he had just starting to lose his chick fluff feathers and get his "real" feathers in a few weeks before (BeBe looked alot like your chick). The good news is he is now about 3 months old now and is fully feathered out. He is covered with fluffy frizzly black and silver feathers now and is gaining in growth on his hatchmates... he is almost as big as them now... yea!

I bet your little cutie pie of a chick will do the same thing.