Breeding these two would produce...?

[izziebean]

Hi! I'm new to all the chicken world. These two chickens are about 14 weeks old. I am pretty sure that the one on the left is a pullet: black frizzle cochin bantam named Happy. The one on the right, Olivia, has started showing more and more signs of being a rooster. He has been renamed to Oliver. If I bred the two of these, would I get a frizzled polish fuzzball? Both were bought as bantams. Most of my chickens that I have been raising since March have turned out to be roos. I've been slowly re-homing most of them. I thought these two might make a cute pairing but didn't know if there is a down side to breeding the two together? Only one is frizzled.

Can you breed a cochin with a polish? I'm not doing this to breed for show or to sell.. just to add back to my little flock.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

You'll get frizzled polish.
Just don't mate 2 frizzles.
Also, you need more females. Like perhaps 10 more.

They look like friends.

 

[Kev]

You can breed them together.

Half of the chicks will be frizzled.

The chicks will lean very heavily towards the polish in body type- long, narrow, skinny with longer feathers. All will have small crests, more like a tuft. Leg feathering will be far less than what the cochin has, just few feathers scattered down the side of leg.

In other words, they won't be round cochin balls with big crests like that. They will not be frizzled polish either, despite the answer above.

By the way, most of the pullets from this cross will be either all black or mostly black with some white streaks or feather edging on neck. The boys are most likely going to start out black but will show a fair more white streaking, especially on neck and back.

 

[izziebean]

Thank you for the response. I've seen some little frizzles with the puffy polish hair, but reading through the breeding sections.. it sounded like the two wouldn't automatically make such a cute little thing. Someone mentioned a 4th or 5th generation.. but I wasn't sure if that meant breeding these two together and then breeding their offspring, etc etc.

 

[Kev]

The frizzled crosses from your birds would have more like Alfalfa of Little Rascals type tuft. It is cute.

For the fuller crest, would need to double up on the crest gene.. can do this either by breeding the frizzled birds back to pure polish which will get you fuller crested birds with less generations- by second or third generation if you pick out the best sized crests for breeding. It's the breeding the crossed birds together that is tricker but still do-able.