I purchased eggs off Ebay... they were frizzle silkies. I had three eggs hatch, two frizzles and this one. Is this one called a smooth feathered silkie? I thought by definition a silkie has downy fuzzy feathers. She is very pretty; just was curious why type she is. It is time to give my two chicks names!!
Frizzles have different feathers than a silkie, and people often mix the two. Since frizzles are a dominant gene for feather type most people breed one frizzle to a "normal" feathered bird. The ones with 2 of this gene look just kinda moth eaten and bald. So, the babies have a 50/50 chance of being either frizzle feathered or normal feathered. Your baby looks like it is normal feathered. But, it's a beautiful blue and if bred to a silkie or a frizzle it could give you babies that silkied if a silkie was it's mom or dad. If a frizzle was the other parent it could give you frizzle babies if bred back to a frizzle. Looks like what happened is you had one silkie parent and one frizzle parent and baby got one silkie gene (which it needs 2 of to show the silkie feathering) and no frizzle gene.
I agree with gocrow77. I know a well known breeder who breeds smooth frizzles, frizzles, and silkied Silkies. Here is her website. http://californiacountryranch.blogspot.com/p/sizzle-chicks-overdose-of-cute-showpet.html Scroll down to see her smooth sizzles.
Thanks for the information.. the website had excellent pictures! Most definitely I have a smooth silkie and colored much like the ones on the California country ranch! Thanks to all that replied!
