Cochin Bantams and Frizzle Cochin Bantams!!

[TeaChick]

I know this sounds cruel but when I find baby pinkie mice I toss them in and watch mine fight over them.

I couldn't watch, except to make sure they were actually going to eat them.
But mine find toads around the yard and they eat just about anything that gets in their way.

I want to find a Frizzle Hen in Indiana.... dose anyone have one?

I LOVE them!

I have one frizzle hen.
I'm not in Indiana.
But you couldn't have her anyway; she's my Snoodle.

I'm sure someone does. I hope you find your frizzle!!!

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[DuckRaiser]

I couldn't watch, except to make sure they were actually going to eat them.
But mine find toads around the yard and they eat just about anything that gets in their way.


I have one frizzle hen.
I'm not in Indiana.
But you couldn't have her anyway; she's my Snoodle.

I'm sure someone does. I hope you find your frizzle!!!

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I also hope I get a frizzle too! Maybe I will, maybe I won't, who knows!

 

[TeaChick]

I also hope I get a frizzle too! Maybe I will, maybe I won't, who knows!

I ended up with mine by accident. =D
DH wouldn't have let me buy her, but he's the one who went in to buy the chickens; he went in for 12 RIR pullets and came out with 11 (five gold Comets, five white Leghorns, and one "special breed", that's my Snoodle).
I'm glad. He calls her my pet. lol
She's really something. I think you should try to get one. You can search the BST thread(s) for frizzles in your area.

 

[DuckRaiser]

I ended up with mine by accident. =D
DH wouldn't have let me buy her, but he's the one who went in to buy the chickens; he went in for 12 RIR pullets and came out with 11 (five gold Comets, five white Leghorns, and one "special breed", that's my Snoodle).
I'm glad. He calls her my pet. lol
She's really something. I think you should try to get one. You can search the BST thread(s) for frizzles in your area.

Cool! So, frizzles do NOT have problems with their feathers?

 

[jajeanpierre]

I just typed a bunch of stuff and then realized it all comes down to this:
Now, I'm really confused.

What Black Cochin Bantams is saying is that there is more at play, genetically, than just one incompletely-dominant frizzle gene. There are modifying genes, that modify the amount of frizzle expressed.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I agree. It is a horrible and usually short life for a chicken. They have so many problems. My two frazzles were bought as frizzles from a hatchery. The blurb on them said I could expect 1/2 frizzle and 1/2 smooth. I got three frazzles and one frizzle out of four. This year's blurb on frizzled Cochins say 1/4 smooth, so every pen is frizzle to frizzle breeding.

Lately, I am reading on this forum from multiple members that frazzles suffer pain when handled because of their delicate feathers/skin. Is everyone just repeating my anecdotal observations, or is there some other reference everyone is referring to? I would suggest that if you are only using my observations, that it not be passed off as fact. It is just my conclusions from observing two frazzled birds, and I could be completely wrong. Perhaps my two frazzles are just a bit more spooky or difficult to handle than other birds. I do not know for a fact that my handling is causing the birds some discomfort.

No, two of my friends recently both got a frazzle. They said the same things as you did. When you first talked about it on here was the first I had ever heard of it, but I talked to them and they also said theres were sensitive. So I have heard it from multiple people, not just you.

 

[DuckRaiser]

No, two of my friends recently both got a frazzle. They said the same things as you did. When you first talked about it on here was the first I had ever heard of it, but I talked to them and they also said theres were sensitive. So I have heard it from multiple people, not just you.

I can't believe frazzles are in pain their whole lives yet people still breed them!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I want to find a Frizzle Hen in Indiana.... dose anyone have one?

I LOVE them!

You should come join us on the indiana thread

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/730582/indiana-bycers-here/22200#post_12839550

I know this sounds cruel but when I find baby pinkie mice I toss them in and watch mine fight over them.

If you didn't find them, they would of. And after they spot them there is no stopping them!

 

[DuckRaiser]

I think feeding live things to chickens is very cruel and un-Godly.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I think feeding live things to chickens is very cruel and un-Godly.

You can't help it if they find the live things themselves.