Ended Non-APA/ABA Large Fowl Hen Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

[Slothinc]

Congratulations @PeaShack @Perris and @AinaWGSD on your beautiful girls!!!

@PeaShack your girl is so sweet! When she lays let us know if she has blue/green eggs! Are her parents lavenders? She reminds me of a frizzled lavender girl that I have who is a mix of silkie and bantam ameraucana

 

[PeaShack]

Congratulations @PeaShack @Perris and @AinaWGSD on your beautiful girls!!!

@PeaShack your girl is so sweet! When she lays let us know if she has blue/green eggs! Are her parents lavenders? She reminds me of a frizzled lavender girl that I have who is a mix of silkie and bantam ameraucana

Thank you! She just started laying. Eggs are light olive green. Her mom (Woodstock) is yellow and lays mint eggs. Dad (Petunia) is gray. Not sure if he qualifies as lavender…I’m still learning coloring .

 

[Slothinc]

Thank you! She just started laying. Eggs are light olive green. Her mom (Woodstock) is yellow and lays mint eggs. Dad (Petunia) is gray. Not sure if he qualifies as lavender…I’m still learning coloring .

Super fun that she lays a colored egg!! I would love to see a pic of her dad if you have one. He’s a silkie right? If the dad is lavender and if she is lavender, that means that her mom also carries lavender, which wouldn’t be unheard of for an Easter egger since lavender ameraucanas are pretty common.

 

[PeaShack]

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Super fun that she lays a colored egg!! I would love to see a pic of her dad if you have one. He’s a silkie right? If the dad is lavender and if she is lavender, that means that her mom also carries lavender, which wouldn’t be unheard of for an Easter egger since lavender ameraucanas are pretty common.

Short story: both parents are Frizzle EE-Silkie mixes

Long story:
(To make a short story long
Petunia and Woodstock came to me as eBay eggs from project birds in Miami, and they are at least an F2 or higher of the Frizzled EE-silkie mix. I suspect Woodstock is a frazzle, and at first I had no plans on hatching their eggs…until I did further scholarly reading (actual studies) on the frizzle/frazzle/modifying gene genetics. Turns out they are superstars in hot environments and continue to lay. They lose their feathers in the heat and grow them back when the weather cools. This has born out these past 2 summers in our East Texas heat. (Our neighbors and friends lost chickens to heat stress this year, but ours are doing great!)

Cuteness factor could be an issue for some people during the bald months. In one of the studies I read, they slaughtered all the birds at the end and none of the frazzles had any of the organ issues, cardiomegaly, etc. that is posted all over the internet and Facebook. (This applies to hot/tropical environments only). There is also a modifying gene that modulates expression of the frizzle gene.

Petunia has light molts, never goes bald and I suspect he also has a modifying gene. All four of his kiddos have satin frizzle feathering, the oldest is almost a year old and has not had any severe molts or balding either. I do keep them all on a higher protein feed.

Here are some pics of Petunia and Woodstock: