Is this a frizzle??

[thistlewick]

Sorry for this half pic but chicks are fast lol I was lucky to get this!

I got these hatching eggs from a lady who claimed they were an Ermine Ameraucana over a black Ameraucana

Out of 8 eggs, 7 hatched and one Ermine (I got 3) the feathers are like this.

Is it frizzle???

The other two just look typical.

 

[Slothinc]

To me the feathers look kind of “shredded” which is odd. (Many lavender birds have shredded feathers.) I don’t see the feathers flipping up towards the head though like I would expect to see in a frizzle. Maybe I just can’t tell from the angle of the photo though.

 

[thistlewick]

To me the feathers look kind of “shredded” which is odd. (Many lavender birds have shredded feathers.) I don’t see the feathers flipping up towards the head though like I would expect to see in a frizzle. Maybe I just can’t tell from the angle of the photo though.

I can try to get a better photo but no, they do not do that -- I am completely unaware of what frizzles are supposed to look like as chicks.

Will read up on shredded feather genes, I did hear that about Lavender (self-blue) as well.

 

[newchickychick]

This is how two of our frizzles look! The feathers started curling up pretty immediately when coming in. So seconding no on probably not frizzle, but gosh what a pretty baby! I’ve noticed some of ours feathered in REALLY funky but it evened out wonderfully as they got a bit older.

Second pic here is from the breeder when he was around 7 days!

 

[thecatumbrella]

I had a frizzle chick, and yours does not look quite right. I've heard that if both parents are frizzled, the offspring can have these sort of "shredded" feathers (as @Slothinc put it).

 

[thistlewick]

Yeah both parents aren't frizzled, not even one parent is frizzled. So this is just weird!