Frazzle?

[Tammy Abrams]

I read that a frazzle is from breading two frizzles. Which state that a frazzle with have very brittle feathers and not to bread frazzles. The articule also states that a frizzle and a regular Cochrin are the best to bread with each other.....Always bread a frizzel to a regular feathered bird.....I will have some of the frizzeled top hats......oh so cute!

 

[Pele]

It's easiest to think of the frizzle gene as the chicken equivalent to curly hair. If both parents have the gene, the offspring will end up with a double dose of curl to the feathers... which feathers are not designed to do.

The feathers will grow brittle, break, and just plain fall out. Leaving the bird naked, with irritated skin, rashes, prone to cold and illness, prone to picking from other birds, etc. Not desirable.

You can introduce the frizzle gene into any chicken breed, including Silkies. With them, you end up with a Sizzle.

 

[Lilokieescorter]

I ended up getting a Frazzle at an auction, I thought she was a frizzle but it wasn't until I got her & held her I finally started to notice the feathers. She's such a cute little girl. She's been put eith an Old English Game Bantam where im trying to breed put the frazzle..... We'll fast forward to yesterday with what looks like her 1st baby hatched in the incubator & she looks like she's a frizzle. With a frazzle you sure do need to pay a lot closer attention to them as the do end up naked & scratched when mated. Posting pictures soon. You guys are always a Wealth of knowledge, even years later!