Silkies Of A Different Color

[technodoll]

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OK, please educate a newbie (me

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I have two bantam cochin frizzle babies here, and their plumage is, well... just a bunch of frizzles, they don't look anything silkie.

Tyler is definitely a silkie (blue skin, 5 toes, blue earlobes, walnut comb, size, shape, etc) - what could be in his genes that give him those frizzled feathers mixed in with his silkie feathers?

Could one of his parents have been a frizzled (insert breed), but not a silkie?

I'm confused... apologies if this is not the right thread for this question, I'll move it.

 

[chickendales]

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ive got a couple out my blue black splash pens to they be in my partridge pen next year along with the hens they came from

 

[TK Poultry]

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OK, please educate a newbie (me

)

I have two bantam cochin frizzle babies here, and their plumage is, well... just a bunch of frizzles, they don't look anything silkie.

Tyler is definitely a silkie (blue skin, 5 toes, blue earlobes, walnut comb, size, shape, etc) - what could be in his genes that give him those frizzled feathers mixed in with his silkie feathers?

Could one of his parents have been a frizzled (insert breed), but not a silkie?

I'm confused... apologies if this is not the right thread for this question, I'll move it.

I think he is what they call a Sizzle.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I had no idea that Tyler WAS a partridge frizzle - he's got silkie feathering and those strange frizzle feathers everywhere, LOL

Are you sure?

Impossible to not fall in love when you see and hear him...

Here he was last autumn, coming out of a molt (frizzled tail feathers not grown in yet):

He crows like mickey mouse

PS: TK Poultry aka Tyler: that is too funny! Love it

Definitely sure that he is a frizzled partridge silkie

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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OK, please educate a newbie (me

)

I have two bantam cochin frizzle babies here, and their plumage is, well... just a bunch of frizzles, they don't look anything silkie.

Tyler is definitely a silkie (blue skin, 5 toes, blue earlobes, walnut comb, size, shape, etc) - what could be in his genes that give him those frizzled feathers mixed in with his silkie feathers?

Could one of his parents have been a frizzled (insert breed), but not a silkie?

I'm confused... apologies if this is not the right thread for this question, I'll move it.

I think he is what they call a Sizzle.

Nope; sizzles do not have silkie feathering.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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OK, please educate a newbie (me

)

I have two bantam cochin frizzle babies here, and their plumage is, well... just a bunch of frizzles, they don't look anything silkie.

Tyler is definitely a silkie (blue skin, 5 toes, blue earlobes, walnut comb, size, shape, etc) - what could be in his genes that give him those frizzled feathers mixed in with his silkie feathers?

Could one of his parents have been a frizzled (insert breed), but not a silkie?

I'm confused... apologies if this is not the right thread for this question, I'll move it.

Not a problem. Frizzle is recognised for every breed. One of his parents could have been a frizzle of another breed, and carried a hidden copy of hte gene for silkie feathers, but he sure looks like pure silkie. Also possible that one of his parents is a silkie who carries at least one copy of the frizzle gene and two copies of the modifier gene. And he inherited frizzle, but only one copy of the recessive modifier gene.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Oh, good to know - thanks!

If I breed him to a white silkie hen, what are the most likely colors any offspring would be? considering his parentage...

I'd love more like him! out of 4 babies with the same parents, 3 were white and he was the only colored one.

Since one of his parents was white, he carries a copy, and about half his offspring with a white should be white. Anything else is purely guesses, except that he does not appear to have inherited the pattern gene (but there is no telling if any specific white has it or not), and he is gold; anoother thing you cannot tell about any specific white.

 

[technodoll]

Sonoran Silkies, I thank you very much for the wonderful information on both my boys - not that I completely understand the genetics thing, but I think I get most of it

I'm going to need more Tyler babies... the day I lose him I will bawl like a baby, I need to have his legacy around - even if they will never look like him, no matter.

That's the problem with having uncommon or unique birds, isn't it?

Here is the only girl he produced last January (I got 3 boys and 1 girl...) - her name is Angelina.

I can see Tyler passed along a bit of his frizzle gene to her, while the other 3 didn't have such feathering.

Funny, eh?

 

[jen5680]

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Someone correct me if I am wrong but make sure you don't breed frizzle to frizzle bc the chicks can get a double frizzle gene and it
makes them kinda 'bald' and really have hard frizzley feathers (if thats a word lol...) They will have a hard time staying warm in the winter ect.

 

[technodoll]

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I actually know someone who did that and ended up with almost bald chicks!

So yeah, only one frizzle at a time...