Polish Frizzles

[silkiemomma28]

he just hatched a silkie chick that we think our frizzled polish roo X with silkie

So stinkin' cute. I want Three! hmmnn. I will have to learn more about breeding. I can't have a rooster here, but I could get a Bantam Polish Rooster to x with my own sweet bantam silkie girls ...your saying I can get this? I don't know what age chickens begin to lay eggs, breed, etc. More to learn. I would have to return the roo to it's home or send him to our friend/family farm with our other boys and pay frequent visits. hmmmmm. I would never do this for a business though.

 

[Nike]

Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are SO CUTE!!!!!!! I want one!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chic_girl]

My brain has just imploded from the adorable-ness.
MUST. GET. FRIZZLE. POLISH.

 

[aoxa]

Frizzled Silkie (Sizzle) x Polish hen

Day old

Siblings (4 weeks)

Adorable, yes?! I have a lot of little babies that just hatched as well.

Smooth sibling (8 weeks)

Her name is McChicken

You can see her beard from behind!

 

[jbwells30]

We were thinking about putting some polish hens in with our silkies to try and get these. That would work right?

 

[aoxa]

We were thinking about putting some polish hens in with our silkies to try and get these. That would work right?

No, that would only make smooth ones like I posted above. One parent would have to have the frizzled feathers.

 

[jbwells30]

OK. Please educate me a little. I thought the cross of the silkie with a smooth would create the frizzle. Is it a separate gene that I need to locate? Or can you achieve that with smooth rooster and silkie hen?

 

[aoxa]

OK. Please educate me a little. I thought the cross of the silkie with a smooth would create the frizzle. Is it a separate gene that I need to locate? Or can you achieve that with smooth rooster and silkie hen?

You can't create a frizzle without one. It was most likely a gene defect a very long time ago. I am not quite sure the history, but you can't just create a frizzle by crossing silkies and smooth feathered birds.

If you did so, the first generation would all be smooth. If you crossed the first generation back to the silkies, you would get some silkie feathered birds.

 

[aoxa]

The frizzling gene is a single gene dominant.
f+f+ is normal feathered
Ff+ is frizzled
FF is super frizzled
A super frizzled bird is partially bald and the growing feathers are so brittle that they repeatedly break off. For this reason the usual mating is Normal x Frizzle because this gives 50% of each with no Super Frizzles.

However this simple pattern of inheritance is complicated by the existance of another gene called the frizzle modifier gene. In this case the mutation is recessive so:-
Fm+Fm+ is normal
Fm+fm is normal but a carrier
fmfm is modified
The frizzle modified bird prevents the frizzled bird growing frizzled feathers so it looks completely, or nearly completely, normal. So in this case a bird can carry the frizzle gene but not be frizzled. But if this bird is then mated to a normal bird that does not have the frizzle modifier gene then half the offspring will come frizzled which gives the impression that the frizzle gene itself has been carried as a recessive even though this is not the case.
Not an easy one to get your head around and in the majority of cases where a frizzled bird crops up from two normals then its due to a mismating. But nevertheless in some cases this other explanation is correct.

 

[Heat]

My brain has just imploded from the adorable-ness.
MUST. GET. FRIZZLE. POLISH.

x2