Australorp Frizzle??? Hen or roo?? What do you think??*PICS*

[suzettex5]

I got this guy/girl about 2 weeks ago with my special order from Belt hatchery. My order was for 10 silkies and 5 white frizzles and 5 black frizzles. No Australorps, supposedly there werent even any Australorps shipped tothat store yet. This one, and one other seem to frizzled, but look like some Australorpe chicks I have who are younger but the younger ones dont have those curly wing feathers. So, is this just a normal black frizzle who will grow out black, or some sort of cross?

Does it look like a roo or pullet? I would love a huge frizzle, but we'll see what happens as it grows....

Feathered feet too, but bottoms of its feet are light yellow!!??!

 

[never_ending_fermata]

cochin maybe?

 

[suzettex5]

Didnt even cross my mind it could be cochin..... Not sure the store I got it at had any cochins. Do hatcheries make those kind of mistakes, ie: accidental crosses? Anyone else have that happen with Belt hatchery?

 

[paddock36]

Looks like a black frizzled Cochin and I would say it looks like a pullet so far.

 

[suzettex5]

Umm, dumb question- What exactly IS a cochin and are they usually frizzled?

 

[CityClucks]

A cochin is a breed of chicken - can be bantam or standard sized, and they are known for their feathered legs and their "puffball" appearance as adults. However, frizzle is not a breed at all - it's a mutation that causes the feathers to grow in a "windblown" pattern instead of smooth like a normal chicken, and this frizzle mutation can occur in many breeds. So, you appear to have a cochin chick that is a frizzle.

To get a frizzle chick, one parent must be smooth and one must have frizzled feathers; however, not 100% of the offspring will display the frizzled feathers...and it's not good to breed two frizzled chickens together - that causes a frazzle, not good for the poor chicken. For more information on cochins and the frizzle gene, use the handy BYC search bar up there on the right to see what other's experiences have been - you'll learn tons!

Cute chick, by the way!

 

[suzettex5]

Thanks- I did use the search bar like you suggested, dont know why I didnt do that first (duh)...

I still would love to know how a hatchery chick,that I didnt order, that is a cross breed, or genetic snafu, ended up in my brooder? Not to mention there are 2 of them, and they were a special order of silkies and frizzles- no cochins requested! seems weird to me, but maybe the feed store employees mixed them up? Either way, I'm keeping them cuz they are just sooo cute and different from my other birds.

 

[CityClucks]

Didn't you order frizzles? Frizzles are not a breed - they're a mutation - so you probably got a cochin with the frizzle mutation - that's how you got the cochin.

A. frizzles are not a breed
B. Many hatcheries breed cochins with the frizzle mutation
C. People who order frizzles are not ordering any specific breed - they're asking for anything with the frizzle gene (mutation)
Ergo: People who order frizzles may get the cochin breed with the frizzle mutation = frizzle cochins

 

[Ariel301]

That is a black frizzled cochin, I've got some just like it. If you ordered black and white frizzles, you got frizzled cochins, that is what is usually meant by 'a frizzle'. They're cute!

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

City Cluck is correct.

Also, even though any breed can become a frizzle, from my experience; cochins are the most common frizzles sold by hatcheries or feedstores.

I just purchased frizzles from my local feedstore and they are frizzled cochins just like yours.

I know you can't see their legs well in the photo, but these frizzles have feathers on their legs and the black one is colored just like your chick.