Frizzle thread

[SonRise Silkies]

I'd sure say frazzle! Looks wet or oily. i have one just like it and it is bare underneath

 

[jtbass2756]

My funny man....loves sitting where he can watch the 4 hens inside of the coop!!!! Very shy with me...doesn't seem to have an aggressive bone in his body

 

[starkist72]

I'm new to this but I think this baby is turning out to be a frizzle, am I right?

 

[smhoekzema]

I'm new to this but I think this baby is turning out to be a frizzle, am I right?

Yep

 

[dstinett]

So if I breed a frizzled Cochin rooster to a smooth hen will the smooth offspring still carry the frizzled gene?

 

[jtbass2756]

So if I breed a frizzled Cochin rooster to a smooth hen will the smooth offspring still carry the frizzled gene?

From what I've read, you have a 50-50 chance. But you don't want to breed a frizzle to a frizzle...to much of the genetics work in there and you stand a good chance of the feathers not being healthy (break easily), or the chicken not being covered good.

 

[dstinett]

Thanks. I do know about frizzle to frizzle. I bred a frizzled roo to a smooth frizzle hen. 4 out of 6 were frizzled. Thought maybe I increased my odds by both parents having gene. I LOVE my frizzles!!!

 

[dstinett]

One more thing. The 2 birds are are from same mother different father. I'm afraid to breed them.

 

[kathrynpa]

love her coloring

 

[DBLakeChickens]

Okay... I'm here because my 3wk old Welsummer chick has some bonkers feathers

The come out and away from her body, and on another forum, somebody suggested she may be a frizzle! I don't have a pic, but she does look like the chicks in pics I have found. Tonight, though, I noticed it looked like her feathers were not necessarily curled as much as growing in backwards... They grow straight away from her body almost, then curl up, and some of the feathers seem to have the pattern underneath. Does this seem typical for frizzles?