How often does frizzeling happen in large fowl breeds?

[nuthatched]

Hi there, just from idle curiosity, how often do large fowl frizzles crop up? Most frizzles seem to be cochins or other smaller breeds.
What about turkeys, does frizzle show up in turkeys at all?
Thanks!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Not sure about turkeys. I had a frizzled Cemani, and lots of people have frizzled NNs. I think they're just not as common because usually you have to use cochins with it to get that gene into the flock gene pool

 

[Amer]

There are no frizzled turkeys. As Jacin has said, they exist but are rare because you have to achieve the frizzling by crossing to other breeds.

 

[nuthatched]

Not sure about turkeys. I had a frizzled Cemani, and lots of people have frizzled NNs. I think they're just not as common because usually you have to use cochins with it to get that gene into the flock gene pool

So it's a characteristic that's usually found only/commonly in cochins?
I forget large fowl cochins exist so that would definitely count as large fowl frizzle.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

So it's a characteristic that's usually found only/commonly in cochins?
I forget large fowl cochins exist so that would definitely count as large fowl frizzle.

Frizzled seramas are pretty common too.

Getting frizzling into a breed involves breeding out into other breeds, then re-locking in all the other characteristics of the breed; so that is why it isn’t super common in every breed. Just like how not all colors are common in every breed.

 

[nuthatched]

Frizzled seramas are pretty common too.

Getting frizzling into a breed involves breeding out into other breeds, then re-locking in all the other characteristics of the breed; so that is why it isn’t super common in every breed. Just like how not all colors are common in every breed.

Ah, ok, that makes sense. I assumed it was a genetic hiccup that cropped up every so often but was more or less desirable in bantams so it's was bred towards.

 

[NatJ]

Ah, ok, that makes sense. I assumed it was a genetic hiccup that cropped up every so often but was more or less desirable in bantams so it's was bred towards.

Frizzling is caused by a particular gene. If you breed a frizzle to a non-frizzle, you should get about 50% frizzled chicks and 50% normal chicks.

(A chicken can have two copies of the frizzle gene, if both parents were frizzles, but that tends to cause poor feather quality and sometimes health problems, so people usually advice breeding frizzles to normal-feathered chickens rather than to each other.)