Frizzle Question...

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LOLOLOL!!!!! Y'all are TOO funny!!! But they're just NOT the responses I was hoping for!!!!! LOL!

Seriously - I have a serama chick that is 4 weeks old - so far its feathers are very soft, and pretty "ratty" looking. They are curled outwards and are not as "hard" or "stiff" as they should be. They looks "sorta" silkie in spots, but then "sorta" frizzled in others - I just can't tell! NONE of my seramas are frizzled OR silkie, so I dunno whats going on with this one...

Will try to get a pic a bit later and post for you to see - the chick is mostly white, so I don't know how well you'll be able to tell what the feather texture is like...
 
There are silkie seramas - they do happen spontaneously. Yes, frizzle can also be spontaneous.

I just crossed a silkie serama to a Sizzle. The resulting eggs are in the incubator - weeeeeeeeeee.

So yes, both can happen, even if neither parent appears to carry the gene.

I got my silkie serama boy from a breeder who didn't want him because he ended up silkie.

He's a total pet. LOL the little black Sizzle hen is STILL easily two or three times his size. It's too silly.

Then again so is hatching these eggs LOL.
 
It is not that neither parent carries the gene.

In the case of silkie feathers, for it to show a bird needs two copies. If htey have one gene it will be passed to half their progeny, and htere will be no sign htat they carry it until one day they mate with another bird who carries a hidden copy of the gene for silkie feathers. And then *POOF* a quarter of their offspring will inherit a copy from each parent, and be silkie. (Another quarter will not receive any copied; the other half will receive one copy of silkie and one of not-silkie.)

As far as the frizzle feathering, in addition to the incompletely dominant frizzle gene, there is a recessive frizzle modifier gene that reduces the amount of frizzling present in a bird. A bird who carries one copy of frizzle and two copies of frizzle modifier will appear to not be frizzled. Since these birds have two copies of the modifier, they pass it to all their offspring.
 
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What Sonoran said. I was gonna say the same thing, but she beat me to it.
She may just end up being "frumpled" which is just full frizzle genes and one modifier. It looks like a frizzle with a bad hair day.
 
Yeah, I don't know anything about the backgrounds of my parent birds (I bought them as eggs) - so theoretically, they *could* be "split to" silkie I guess.

Ok, so if this one is "frumpled", how would I breed to get properly frizzled offspring? (I saw someone else's frizzled seramas on BYC and they were just too cool for words!)

Still gotta get that pic up...
 
OMG - they're SOOOO COOL!!!! Yours are probably the ones I saw a while back! How long did it take for you to "create" these? What did you start out with? If you don't mind my asking, that is...

I don't think mine is going to be quite as NICE as yours - of course, she's only 4 weeks old, so time will tell. I just don't remember the parents being feathered like this as babies - she's actually quite ragged looking!!!

Will get a pic of her for you first thing in the AM!!!
 

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