Frizzle??

[ChickChic00]

I got this chick along with some other bantam chicks. It's supposed to be a buff laced brahma, but it is starting to look like a frizzle??
I've never had a frizzle and know nothing about them. The women I got them from has ZERO frizzles. Like, literally none. But it looks like one? Can two none frizzles make a frizzle??
She hatches and sells only purebred. She has individual pens for them. Thanks soooo much!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Looks like one.

 

[JedJackson]

Looks like a frizzle to me, but it's not a pure Brahma because it has a single comb and not quite the correct coloring. How a frizzle chick came into being from a non-frizzle flock is anyone's guess but these things can happen.

 

[ChickChic00]

Looks like a frizzle to me, but it's not a pure Brahma because it has a single comb and not quite the correct coloring. How a frizzle chick came into being from a non-frizzle flock is anyone's guess but these things can happen.

She did have some cochins also. But even if it was a Cochin, it doesn't really explain the frizzle

 

[JedJackson]

She did have some cochins also. But even if it was a Cochin, it doesn't really explain the frizzle

The frizzle gene is incomplete dominant. From what I am reading, there is also a gene that if present in two doses (from both parents) that can cover the frizzle gene and make a genetically frizzled chicken appear smooth. It's called the mf gene. I think this must be what happened with your bird. The breeder has at least one frizzle that appears smooth because it has the mf gene, and so the breeder doesn't know about it. Since it only takes one frizzle gene to produce frizzled offspring, this smooth feathered frizzle passed on its frizzle gene to your chick but since the chick doesn't have two copies of the mf gene, it is a normal frizzle.

Very confusing! But I think this explains it. Unless the breeder has a neighbor with a frizzled rooster that made a stealth visit!

 

[jsm348]

The frizzle gene is incomplete dominant. From what I am reading, there is also a gene that if present in two doses (from both parents) that can cover the frizzle gene and make a genetically frizzled chicken appear smooth. It's called the mf gene. I think this must be what happened with your bird. The breeder has at least one frizzle that appears smooth because it has the mf gene, and so the breeder doesn't know about it. Since it only takes one frizzle gene to produce frizzled offspring, this smooth feathered frizzle passed on its frizzle gene to your chick but since the chick doesn't have two copies of the mf gene, it is a normal frizzle.

Very confusing! But I think this explains it. Unless the breeder has a neighbor with a frizzled rooster that made a stealth visit!

That is the only explanation I've ever read that actually made it clear and I could understand.. Thank you for a brilliant explanation

 

[AmeraucanaHank]

@ChickChic00 is she still frizzled?

 

[ChickChic00]

@ChickChic00 is she still frizzled?

Yep! Its a Roo! Looks like a Lavender Frizzle Cochin

 

[AmeraucanaHank]

Yep! Its a Roo! Looks like a Lavender Frizzle Cochin

Do you have pics?!?

 

[ChickChic00]

Do you have pics?!?

He's been picked on a bit, so he is missing some feathers.