Frizzles

[KKluckers]

I love your frizzles. Just glad I have a few of them.

 

[Blisschick]

Beautiful!!

My thought is that they appear to be marked partridge and silver partridge. I would breed them back to a partridge male.

http://www.cacklehatchery.com/partridgecochinstd.html

 

[TerrasCritters]

Thank you, I have 2 cochin chicks from mixed eggs where there were black, buff, partridge and some others, they appear to be black but maybe they will bloom to be partridge. I REALLY wanted partridge but they ran together. Crossing fingers.
Thank you again.

 

[dragon]

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k203/yoko_07/chickens/P1020842.jpg

 

[KKluckers]

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Is this your bird? Pretty girl.

 

[dragon]

gave her to my nephew

 

[TerrasCritters]

Wow she is beautiful! I want her LOL



Oh and btw, the frizzle mom I have (black frizzle hen) shes got to have the partridge gene in her, i know we already figured, but today shes got all her feathers grown back in from molt and she fluffed up and i noticed some brown down feathers. So I picked her up an shes got a couple feathers that have a brown tent to them.

 

[Blisschick]

She probably does. She could be E/e+ or E/eb, which would mask the wild or partridge coloring.

 

[TerrasCritters]

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Whats E/e+ and E/eb??

 

[Blisschick]

E = Extended black, or dominant black. When this gene is present, your bird will be black.

e+ = a black gene that is recessive to E. It is the pattern for black brested red, which is considered to be the "wild" pattern (Think tabby markings on a cat. Those are considered a wild pattern.) In females, breast is salmon brown and devoid of stippling, body is black and brown in stippled pattern.

eb = a black gene that is recessive to E. It is the pattern for partridge coloring and makes E dark brown. Females have non-salmon breast with stippling. Males are wild-type.