Wooly Mammoth Chicken???

Quote:Never heard of them...the closest thing resembling wool in a chicken breed is Silkies...

 

i found a wooly chicken...

 

Hedemora can be woolly, but they don't have very long trunks or tusks.

 

Quote:on doing a deep research I came across this old post of our friend Tim when he used to post at the classroom forums long ago(2006)

he responded to below question about wooly

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T. Adkerson :

ladycat,

The wooly gene is an autosomal recessive gene. In day old chicks, the expression of the gene can very from chick to chick. The down on chicks will be shorter than normal and feathering can vary from normal to seminaked. Varing amounts of the down feathers would be clubbed or rolled into the shape of a small feather nodule ( a ball on the end of the down feather). Adult and juvenile feathering is complete(covers the body) but the feathers are rough and incomplete. They also lack the smoothness associated with normal feathers. I have not personally seen the mutation.

Tim

hope this helps...​