What breed is this??

[Burgs]

I've been told this is a polish frizzle.

I haven't had polish chicken before but at five weeks I would expect there to be head feathers emerging but as yet there are none!

Judging by the feathers however I'm sure there is some frizzle in there.

 

[Frost77]

That definitely does look like a Frizzle judging by adult Frizzle photos I searched up. I haven't gotten any of those personally but if they're like my White Crested Polish birds they might get their head feathers at about 6.5-7 weeks, maybe 8. Or it could be a breed that has a plain head?

 

[debid]

Frizzles are frizzled from the beginning. Yours has normal feathers. Crested chickens have a puff of down where the crest will be. That's not there, either.

I don't know what it is but it is not a frizzled or crested chicken.

 

[Burgs]

I've had allot of chicks over the years from multiple different breeds and I've never had a chick who's feathers look like this at five weeks :-/

 

[Burgs]

Could It be a genetic problem?? It does have epilepsy so maybe there is something else going on as well

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

It looks like it has a beard, so if it lays green or blue eggs it's and Easter Egger.

 

[ChanLillie]

Looks like my frizzle polish!

 

[keesmom]

I've been told this is a polish frizzle.

I haven't had polish chicken before but at five weeks I would expect there to be head feathers emerging but as yet there are none!

Judging by the feathers however I'm sure there is some frizzle in there.

Definitely not a Polish. No crest, wrong comb type and wrong leg color.

 

[debid]

I've had allot of chicks over the years from multiple different breeds and I've never had a chick who's feathers look like this at five weeks :-/

I shouldn't have said they look "normal" because you're right that they look tattered. But tattered isn't the same as frizzled. Frizzled feathers curl away from the body.

Honestly, I would look under the feathers for something resembling dirt. I suspect it's a feather-munching lice or mite -- something like that makes a bird look tattered in a hurry. Or, if the bird is sickly, it may not be preening itself

 

[drumstick diva]

not polish , not a frizzle. I wonder if it came from a frizzle to frizzle breeding, in that case the feathers are very brittle and break off. Bird can end up balding.