If you breed a frizzled silkie to a silkie what do you get?

[7iluvanimals]

I have the possibility to get some frizzled silkies and would love to breed them with my silkies. But is there a possibility for straight feathered chickens pairing these two?

 

[PippinTheChicken]

@MysteryChicken @nicalandia

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Are these frizzled Silkies also silkied or are they Satins? If they are also silkied, then you'd get half Silkies and half frizzled Silkies from that crossing. Since the gene is recessive and thus all silkied individuals must carry two copies of it, breeding silkied to silkied always makes silkied offspring.

If they're frizzled Satins, it would depend on whether they carry the silkied gene. If they do carry the gene, which is the most likely scenario, you should see approximately 1/4 frizzled and silkied, 1/4 frizzled but not silkied, 1/4 silkied but not frizzled, and 1/4 completely smooth. If they are frizzled Satins that do not carry the silkied gene, no offspring will be silkied but all will carry the gene, and about half will be frizzled and half smooth.

 

[cece_chickens]

Ok that’s interesting because I had a similar question on something like this! If I bred my silkie to my frizzle Easter eggers what would that be? A sizzle? What would they look like? How many would look like silkies?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Silkie bred to frizzled Easter-egger would be the same as Silkie bred to frizzled Satins that do not carry the silkied gene as far as feather type. You would get half frizzled and half smooth offspring, and all would carry (but not express) the silkied gene.

As for what they would look like beyond that, it depends on what genes your Easter-egger has and what color the Silkie is. These two birds were the result of crossing a dominant White Silkie male to a smooth (not frizzled) Easter-egger female as an example:

 

[cece_chickens]

Silkie bred to frizzled Easter-egger would be the same as Silkie bred to frizzled Satins that do not carry the silkied gene as far as feather type. You would get half frizzled and half smooth offspring, and all would carry (but not express) the silkied gene.

As for what they would look like beyond that, it depends on what genes your Easter-egger has and what color the Silkie is. These two birds were the result of crossing a dominant White Silkie male to a smooth (not frizzled) Easter-egger female as an example:

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Beautiful birds!! So depending on what genes a chick gets a chick could look like a silkie but have the frizzle gene?

 

[MysteryChicken]

I have the possibility to get some frizzled silkies and would love to breed them with my silkies. But is there a possibility for straight feathered chickens pairing these two?

Can you give abit more detail?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Beautiful birds!! So depending on what genes a chick gets a chick could look like a silkie but have the frizzle gene?

Depending on the genes, yes. There are a lot of people who breed what are called Sizzles, frizzled birds that look like a Silkie but don't have the silkied feather gene. There are some pictures on this page as an example: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/sizzle.47522/

Frizzled Silkies (with both the frizzling gene and the silkied feather gene) are also not unheard of, which is why I wasn't sure if the OP meant Sizzles (frizzled Satins) or actual frizzled Silkies with their question.

 

[7iluvanimals]

Depending on the genes, yes. There are a lot of people who breed what are called Sizzles, frizzled birds that look like a Silkie but don't have the silkied feather gene. There are some pictures on this page as an example: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/sizzle.47522/

Frizzled Silkies (with both the frizzling gene and the silkied feather gene) are also not unheard of, which is why I wasn't sure if the OP meant Sizzles (frizzled Satins) or actual frizzled Silkies with their question.

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Depending on the genes, yes. There are a lot of people who breed what are called Sizzles, frizzled birds that look like a Silkie but don't have the silkied feather gene. There are some pictures on this page as an example: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/sizzle.47522/

Frizzled Silkies (with both the frizzling gene and the silkied feather gene) are also not unheard of, which is why I wasn't sure if the OP meant Sizzles (frizzled Satins) or actual frizzled Silkies with their question.

So just got the person to respond back the hen is a silkie and the rooster is a Cochin frizzle.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

So the birds you would be getting would be the offspring of a Silkie hen and a frizzled Cochin rooster? Only about half of those would be frizzled, themselves, but they would all carry the silkied feather gene.

That would mean crossing the frizzled individuals back to your Silkies would make approximately 1/4 frizzled and silkied, 1/4 frizzled but not silkied, 1/4 silkied but not frizzled, and 1/4 completely smooth offspring as I said before. The non-frizzled individuals would make 1/2 silkied and 1/2 smooth offspring when bred to Silkies.