Frizzled Easter Egger bantams

[mamabear6810]

Hi!
I am wondering how to achieve a frizzled Easter Egger bantam! I have frizzled cochin bantams and EE bantams.
All are babies but I discovered frizzled EE is a thing today and wondering if I will be able to create them myself.
Thanks for any help!!

 

[NatJ]

Just cross a frizzled Cochin with an Easter Egger, and about half the chicks should come out frizzled and the other half not-frizzled.

If you use a Cochin male and an Easter Egger female, you can make sure the mother lays colored (blue or green) eggs. If she lays colored eggs, you can expect at least half of her daughters to also lay colored eggs. (An Easter Egger father can also pass on the gene for colored eggs, but you have no way to tell whether he actually carries that gene or not, until his daughters grow up. With a hen, you can be sure she has at least one copy of the blue egg gene if she herself lays blue or green eggs.)

The chicks will probably have feathered feet because of the Cochin parent, and if the Easter Egger has muffs (puffy cheeks) the chicks may have those as well.

If you want to have more in later generations, cross a frizzled part-EE back to EEs, and you should keep getting Easter Eggers with some being frizzled. Crossing the part-EEs back to Cochin will give you at least half brown-eggers instead of colored-eggers.

 

[mamabear6810]

Just cross a frizzled Cochin with an Easter Egger, and about half the chicks should come out frizzled and the other half not-frizzled.

If you use a Cochin male and an Easter Egger female, you can make sure the mother lays colored (blue or green) eggs. If she lays colored eggs, you can expect at least half of her daughters to also lay colored eggs. (An Easter Egger father can also pass on the gene for colored eggs, but you have no way to tell whether he actually carries that gene or not, until his daughters grow up. With a hen, you can be sure she has at least one copy of the blue egg gene if she herself lays blue or green eggs.)

The chicks will probably have feathered feet because of the Cochin parent, and if the Easter Egger has muffs (puffy cheeks) the chicks may have those as well.

If you want to have more in later generations, cross a frizzled part-EE back to EEs, and you should keep getting Easter Eggers with some being frizzled. Crossing the part-EEs back to Cochin will give you at least half brown-eggers instead of colored-eggers.

Yay! Thank you! My 2 favorite things are frizzled chickens and easter eggers! Cant wait till theyre old enough to breed!

 

[All4Eggz]

I actually recently made a thread because "My Pet Chicken" (hatchery) just created that breed!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hmm-frizzle-easter-egger-cool.1492285/

I agree with @NatJ - Use a frizzled cochin and an easter egger (or easter egger bantam, if you have that. But cochins are also bantam, so it would make the outcome bantam sized)

 

[NatJ]

I agree with @NatJ - Use a frizzled cochin and an easter egger (or easter egger bantam, if you have that. But cochins are also bantam, so it would make the outcome bantam sized)

OP mentioned Cochin Bantams and Easter Egger Bantams, so I assumed the offspring would all be bantams, but I didn't bother saying "bantam" every time I mentioned them (slight laziness on my part.)

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I actually recently made a thread because "My Pet Chicken" (hatchery) just created that breed!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hmm-frizzle-easter-egger-cool.1492285/

I agree with @NatJ - Use a frizzled cochin and an easter egger (or easter egger bantam, if you have that. But cochins are also bantam, so it would make the outcome bantam sized)

Those look so cool!

 

[Jaq]

Those look so cool!

I ordered some I’m so exited for them to arrive week of 10/4 I was looking around to see if anyone else had some lol @All4Eggz

 

[Vee21]

I recently hatched 3 chicks. I crossed Easter Egger hens with a solid black frizzled bantam cochin rooster (my girls are regular sized and my roo is short). The babies are 4 weeks old, one is a female who has solid black feathers, black eyes, black mohawk, black beak, dark gray feathered legs, one roo has black silky feathers with some shimmery green tone, feathered legs and the other roo has black feathers with tiny white spots and feathered legs. They are so beautiful.

 

[All4Eggz]

I recently hatched 3 chicks. I crossed Easter Egger hens with a solid black frizzled bantam cochin rooster (my girls are regular sized and my roo is short). The babies are 4 weeks old, one is a female who has solid black feathers, black eyes, black mohawk, black beak, dark gray feathered legs, one roo has black silky feathers with some shimmery green tone, feathered legs and the other roo has black feathers with tiny white spots and feathered legs. They are so beautiful.

Any photos?

 

[Slothinc]

I would suggest that if possible you could use an ameraucana bantam. They should have 2 blue egg genes so all daughters would lay a blue egg. I have a pullet who is 1/2 silkie, 1/2 bantam ameraucana who has the frizzle gene and she is darling and lays the cutest little blue-green egg. I also have a NN black girl whose mother is an OE and father is a frizzled silkie NN. She lays a cute blue-green egg also. I have a bunch of little mixed pullets (not all frizzled though) that have just started laying blue/green and I am really enjoying it!