Questions about breeding hard/soft feathering

[Brahma Chicken5000]

That depends on your definition of difficult and easily.
Hard feathering is autosomal incomplete dominant. Your first cross will get one hard feather gene and one soft feather gene.
If you breed those F1s together you'll get about 25% soft feathered offspring.
If you breed your F1s back to a soft feather parent you'll get about 50% soft feathered offspring.
Whether it has two genes for hard feather, two for soft feather or one of each they shouldn't be hard to tell apart so that makes things easier then dealing with hidden recessive genes.
I wouldn't consider it to difficult to breed out just gonna take a fair amount of throw away chicks but that's how projects usually go.

What exactly is hard and soft feathering in chickens? Is it how compact the feathers are?

 

[JanetMarie]

If anyone hasn't noticed the OP hasn't responded since the first posting, as a new member, what a great welcoming.

I could see why the OP as a new member may not want to post any more comments, or participate on this forum at all, with unnecessary criticism from one member to another about what the English call a jubilee and speckled.

 

[3riverschick]

He wasn't criticizing. we were just discussing difference in terms. apparently, there are two different colored birds and both are called Jubilee. I didn't know that. I'm glad Gojira brought it up. so there is a speckled bird that is called Jubilee and there is also a Cornish called Jubilee. that's really interesting . Learn something new every day.
Best,
Karen

 

[3riverschick]

There are three types of Feathering . Loose, close, and hard . it has to do, from what I understand ,about how closely the feathers lay to the skin.
A loose feathered bird would look like an Orpington ,fluffy .
A close feathered bird would be like a Sussex
A great Sussex judge and breeder once defined close feathered as plumage which does not lift up from the body with every puff of wind against the lay of the feathers.
Then there's hard feathered, like the game birds . where the feathers lay real close to the skin .
Karen

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

There are three types of Feathering . Loose, close, and hard . it has to do, from what I understand ,about how closely the feathers lay to the skin.
A loose feathered bird would look like an Orpington ,fluffy .
A close feathered bird would be like a Sussex
A great Sussex judge and breeder once defined close feathered as plumage which does not lift up from the body with every puff of wind against the lay of the feathers.
Then there's hard feathered, like the game birds . where the feathers lay real close to the skin .
Karen

Thank you so much for the detailed answer!