what are frizzles like??

[phoebs]

i am upoading pics on my profile so please have a look obviously there not frizzles but they are still chooks and ducks!

 

[Rachel96]

Here's a pic of Wimpy and Domino. It's all I have, sorry; they're not very photogenic!


Here are some of my Sizzles - half Frizzle and half Silkie. When it's damp, their top-knots turn into spikes, so they're not as impressive as they normally are - Frizzle feathers from the head! They're fourteen weeks now.


This is Golden Boy, the cockerell. Snowball (the white one) is also a cockerell, but he's Silkie-dominant. I'll only put up pictures of the Frizzle-dominant ones. The pictures are at 3 weeks, 6 weeks, and 14 weeks.


This is Golden Girl, who I'm fairly certain is Golden Boy's full sister (I got them as week-old chicks, so I don't know who their parents are). I love the colouring both of these two have!


The third Frizzle-dominant Silkie is called Caramel:


The lady that I got them from lives just north of Adelaide and has Silkie, Frizzle, and Sizzle chicks every couple of weeks (even in winter!!). I've put in a request for some more in a couple of months, when it gets warmer (as much as I love chicks, I don't fancy having a brooder inside ALL winter).

One thing about Sizzles, though; their feet. While four of my five have five toes, the fifth one just slightly smaller than most Silkies, one of the Sizzles has five toes on one foot and four on the other!

I hope you enjoyed these pictures!
from Rachel.

 

[phoebs]

wow they are great pics i love them there a joy to look at i am going to get sizzles and frizles!
thanks phoebe

 

[JakRat]

This is my Polish Frizzle... His comb and waddles are really big now, but he has such a rockin hair-do!!!

 

[allmychickens]

frizzling is a genetic mutation and can come in many breeds, temperment and laying ability would be the same as non frizzled hens of that breed. Frizzles do not do as well in cold environment though, because of the way their feathers curl up and do not protect their skin.

This is my frizzled polish she happens to be the best layer of my polish and has a very similar personality she tends to stand under the heat lamp because she gets cold

 

[olebiddy]

I am new to Frizzles. I bought 8 chickens Saturday. They were all in the same cage, 2 are frizzled and the other 6 are straight feathered, so I'm wondering if all are Frizzles. I read about 1/4 of the eggs a Frizzle lays will hatch straight feathered. I seen a reply about not breeding Frizzles with Frizzles, wondering why that is?

 

[Rachel96]

Frizzles are considered a breed of their own in Australia, New Zealand, and Britain, but not in America. In Australia, three frizzled breeds are accepted for showing; the Frizzle, frizzled Polish, and frizzled Japanese. Frizzled Silkies, frizzled Pekins, and frizzled Belgians, are not considered to be Frizzles as they don't meet the standard.

Size: Large Fowl (and Bantam)
Egg Colour: white or tinted
Layers: fair to good
Origin: Asia

Body Type: broad and short, with full and rounded breat and long wings.
Head: smooth face, with a short and strong beak, single medium-sized upright combe, and moderately-sized earlobes and wattles
Neck: medium-length, very frizzled like a Tudor collar in males, but less so in females.
Legs and Feet: medium-length legs, clean with no feathers. Four toes.
Plumage: moderately long, with a broad feather which curls towards the bird's head. Lyre tails are preffered in males.
Things white automatically exempt from the standard: narrow feather, lack of curl, very long tail, drooping comb, white earlobes, feathered legs.

Rooster weight: 3.6kg (8lb)
Hen weight: 2.7kg (6lb)
Cockerell weight: 3.2kg (7lb)
Pullet: 2.25kg (5lb)
Bantam male: 680g (24-28oz)
Bantam female: 570-680kg (20-24oz)

Colouring: Frizzles can come in a lot of colours, and the colour of the feet and beak changes according to the plumage.
Eye Colour: Red
Comb, face, wattles, and earlobes colour: bright red

Plumage, leg and beak colour:
White: yellow legs and beak
Black: dark legs and beak, but can be yellow
Blue: dark (willow, blue, black) legs and beak
Buff: yellow legs and beak
Cuckoo: white legs and beak
Spangle: white legs and beak
Pile: yellow legs and beak
Columbian: yellow legs and beak
Red: (as in Rhode Island Red) yellow legs and beak
Black-Red (Partridge): white legs and beak
Black-Red (Wheaten): white legs and beak
Brown-Red: dark legs and beak
Silver Duckwing: dark legs and beak
Gold Duckwing: dark legs and beak
Mottled: dark legs and beak
Crele: dark legs and beak
Barred: dark legs and beak
Silver: dark legs and beak

I compiled this information from various sources, including the Poultry Australia magazine and the Frizzle Society of Great Britain page
http://www.thefrizzlesocietyofgreatbritain.co.uk/index.php?section=3.

Olebiddy, by my understanding, it is true that 1/4 of the eggs from two 'normal' Frizzles will hatch flat-feathered. Conversely, 1/4 of the eggs will hatch 'Curled'. Half will hatch with breed standard (broad, Frizzled) feathers.

As I explained in a previous post, this is because of genetics. The 'frizzling' gene is called 'F', whereas the flat-feather gene is called 'f'. A bird with frizzled feathers will always have a genotype of 'Ff'. Refer to the Punnett Diagram which Sonaran Silkies posted for a visual on thsi next bit; If you breed two 'Ff' birds together, 1/4 of the children will have a genotype of 'FF', which means their phenotype (what they look like) is Curled (or über-frizzled); 1/4 of the children will be 'ff', which gives them flat feathers; and the remaining 1/2 will be 'Ff' like the parents, which means they have normal Frizzle feathers.

The reason people say not to breed two Frizzles together is because you will end up with 1/4 Curlies, which are meant to be flighty, 'schizophrenic', and unpredictable. I've found the opposite with my Curly, actually, he's the most placid rooster (or chicken at all) I have ever seen. Even more placid than my Silkies! Also, Curlies and flat-feathered Frizzles aren't considered breed standard; they can't be shown. People who breed exhibition birds often us one 'FF' parent and one 'ff' parent to ensure that all the children are 'Ff'.

Here is a picture from a breeder of a 'Curled' (FF) pullet:


I'll finish (sort of) by saying that obviously none of my Frizzles (or clearly the Sizzles) meet breed standard. As I don't show them, I don't mind, and I wouldn't sell them by saying that they do. I just love how they look!

I'm going to wait to see how well my Sizzles lay (Frizzles lay well, Silkies don't so much, so they could go either way), but I may consider breeding Sizzles specifically - I just love how they look, and they're so friendly!

By the way, I think frizzled Polishes look pretty cool! My Sizzles have head plumage rather like the frizzled Polish cockerell JakRat's picture. You just can't see it very well because they were all a little damp when I took the pictures!

from Rachel.

 

[phoebs]

wow thanks that gives me so much info thanks so much i get it all i have belgians and i was thinging of getting frizzles i have a belgian rooster obviously they wont be able to show but i am sure they will be cute! (i am so getting frizzles!)
thanks so much phoebe

 

[Kazstuck]

Hi

I have an 11 year old who's just started showing her poultry and I have no idea about this....so we are learning. She'd like to get some Frizzles to show. Does anyone have any available?