Is the frizzle gene a detriment?

[nzpouter]

I the book "choosing and keeping chickens" by chris Graham, there's a pic of frizzled mille.....

for those that need to see how a frizzled silkie looks like... the bird on the left is a sizzle, on the right a frizkie...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Sounds like you're breeding sizzle to have silkie feathering?

 

[nzpouter]

Yep....

Trying to breed a ball of fluff... Looks much better on birds with soft feather.... the ones with hard feather looks like a toilet brush.

hard feather

soft feather...

and next year... a bearded, frizzled, barred silkie...

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

Quite honestly, I dont understand the soft feather version, since the difference from a regular Silkie is so subtle. Why waist all the energy?

 

[Krys109uk]

WOW Not at all.....I think that frizzle hookless silkie look is amazing.
All this fancy pretty little bird stuff is not what I do ....but WOW I can still appreciate it.
Actually I think both of those white birds are very pretty.

nzpouter... with beautiful birds like that why make a silkie with a beard?

 

[nzpouter]

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I really need to take better pics of it.... that was in summer, start of moult and on a windy day...

When fully feathered, if you put the soft feather side by side with a normal silkie the difference is just phenomenal...

 

[nzpouter]

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More feather, more fluff...

 

[Krys109uk]

nzpouer....is there any way you can scan that piccy of the mille fleur frizzle on here ?
I'd love to see the effect.....sounds nice.

 

[ILOVEFRIZZLES]

This is some information I found on frizzles.

http://www.polishbreedersclub.com/frizzling.htm

 

[Krys109uk]

More feather, more fluff...

Der.....stupid me.....I didn't know silkies were supposed to have beards in this country. Just saw a post by a lady whose pretty (& bearded) silkie had been stollen

What a shame.​