genes..two smooth feathered parents..

[chickenreyna]

I have a chick, over one month of age. As if being a black copper maran and bantam cochin mix was not bizarre enough. I've noticed its feathered legs are starting to flare up. Is it entirely possible he inherited a friz gene from one parent? I'm pushing towards my bantam cochin fathers gene pool, bc i bought him and several others same exact time same bin about one year ago and i own a friz hen, who i believe is a sister of the bantam cochin daddy to this little thinf.. See my poster picture..lol.

 

[chickenreyna]

Pics..a week or so old. Will take new ones soon

 

[Sneebsey]

Not possible unless one of the parents were frizzle, I'm afraid. Frizzle is an incomplete dominant gene, therefore if a bird has it, they show it, and if neither parents were frizzle, neither is this little one.

If s/he were frizzle, I would expect to see the wing-tips doing their frizz-thing first, then the rest of the body feathers as they come in. The leg feathers are normal; s/he'll grow into them.