North Carolina

[mayberrygirl]

Why can't you breed frizzle to frizzle? Sorry, I'm full of stupid questions still lol

Thank you on the DE tip. frizzle to frizzle makes "frazzle" the feathers are super brittle and break off.

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

Hmmm... Hubby's new shadow.... out on the chicken yard...

The Protectors of the Flock.... Our dog is still trying to figure out what the turkey is... LoL

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Why can't you breed frizzle to frizzle? Sorry, I'm full of stupid questions still lol

Breeding frizzle to frizzle can result in a good percentage of the chicks 'double frizzle' some call it the curlies. The feathers have much more curl to them, frizzles are already less cold hardy with the feathers curling slightly as they do away from the body letting body heat out, so with the extreme curls of a double frizzle they are very exposed to both sun and cold. Also that double dose can lead to thin brittle feathers and bare batches where no feathers grow. Not all chicks from a frizzle X frizzle will be an extreme frizzle but I think roughly half would be.

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

We finally got all our chickens moved inside our 6ft chainlink fence. Hubby re-did the community pen... and our chickens are super happy.

Our Quail Fighting Over Who Is Gonna Eat Mealworms First.... too cute.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Mary - you have a very neat set up! Love it.

I can't wait to get started (and then of course get done) re-doing my main chicken area (silkies/bantams) going to start tearing down the old fencing tomorrow and if I am lucky can make it to working on the digging part for the new floor frame.

 

[ramirezframing]

As I was told, frizzle to frizzle makes a few frazzles with health problems, but most won't make it outta the egg. I don't know for sure, never tried with mine. I have enough "special needs" chickens to keep me busy

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

The double frizzled gene is not lethal - it just takes the curling of the feathers to an extreme.

Exert from a The Frizzle Society of Great Britain :

As mentioned above the frizzling is caused by a gene, which is incompletely dominant to normal feathering, meaning that from a mating of fizzle to frizzle the progeny can display one of three feather formations: normal, frizzled and over-frizzle (whereby the feathers are very heavily frizzled and the normal structure of the feather is so weak, each feather tends to resemble a pipe cleaner!) in the basic Mendalian formula of 25%, 50% and 25% respectively. Thus when breeding frizzled birds it is wise to keep a frizzle bred normal feather in order to avoid any ‘pipe cleaners’ as it helps to balance the frizzle and provide a bird with good quality of feather whilst still displaying the necessary curl.

[FONT='Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Webpage can be found here : [/FONT]http://www.thefrizzlesocietyofgreatbritain.co.uk/index.php?section=1

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

Mary - you have a very neat set up! Love it.

I can't wait to get started (and then of course get done) re-doing my main chicken area (silkies/bantams) going to start tearing down the old fencing tomorrow and if I am lucky can make it to working on the digging part for the new floor frame.

Thanks... we have worked hard for the past 2 weeks... getting all our birds under lock and key... as we had a Game Cock stolen 2 weeks ago. Hubby was fighting mad.
Some guy had stopped by a couple of days beforehand.. wanting to browse his birds.... as you could see them from the road. We think he came back and helped himself to the furthest cage from the house.
Anyway... lesson learned. The flock is nicely secured now. And everyone is happy.

 

[buttercup0884]

Meet our newest additions:
Moscato:
and Lorelai:

 

[ramirezframing]

did she wait for you to get home? congrats

Meet our newest additions:
Moscato:
and Lorelai: