frizzled gene

[hdowden]

do you have to have 2 copies of the gene or how does that really work

 

[Christie Rhae]

You only need one copy of the frizzle gene. In fact two copies creates a Frazzle. The birds will have brittle feathers that break or don't grow right. I have heard they do not thrive. So you really only want one copy of the gene. If you take one bird with the frizzles and breed with a smooth feather you will get half and half but at least you will not get a Frazzle.

 

[hdowden]

then why are people told to breed fizzle to smooth frizzle if thats the case?

 

[Christie Rhae]

then why are people told to breed fizzle to smooth frizzle if thats the case?

Frizzle to smooth frizzle? I am not sure what smooth frizzle is.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

I don't think there is such a thing as 'smooth frizzle' --- a bird is either frizzle or not frizzle (smooth).
Most Frizzle Cochin breeders (and other frizzle breeds / crosses) breed a frizzled bird to a smooth (not frizzled) bird for the reasons Christie explained.

Good luck!

 

[werblessd1s]

I was told the rooster needs to be smooth and the hen frizzle to get frizzle. If both are frizzle you will get a chicken with brittle feathers.

 

[appps]

I believe a smooth frizzle is one from frizzle x smooth parents which didn't get the frizzled feathers. It would still carry the frizzle gene though I think.

There is a frizzle thread here somewhere and they can probably give you more info.

All I know is there is this ugly frazzle rooster at our feed store for sale. You don't want to do that its not nice looking.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I believe a smooth frizzle is one from frizzle x smooth parents which didn't get the frizzled feathers. It would still carry the frizzle gene though I think.

There is a frizzle thread here somewhere and they can probably give you more info.

All I know is there is this ugly frazzle rooster at our feed store for sale. You don't want to do that its not nice looking.

Nothing such as a smooth frizzle. The term probably came from smooth sizzle, a term sometimes used to describe a non-silkies, non frizzled bird that otherwise has all characteristics of a sizzle and silkie.

It is very unlikely to have a frizzled bird that does not show frizzling. There is a frizzle modifier gene that can cause this. It unfrizzles a frizzle's feathers, and a bird with two copies looks simlar to one with one copy, and a bird with one copy may not look frizzled at all. Some think the modifier gene is common; most think it is pretty rare. Unless you know you have the gene in your flock (hatching out frizzles from two non-frizzzled parents), do not expect that you do. And without the modifier, frizzle cannot hide: if it is present, you see it.

 

[appps]

Well I was sorta half right lol. Knew I'd herd the term smooth something

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Oh, and the modifier gene is recessive.