Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Question: Frizzle Gene showed up in Silkies (pleitropy??)

 

Because he bought silkie culls from someone like me who sells her culls as pet quality culls, and they were probably half gene frizzled.  I do not keep my culls separate when I sort, they all go in together.  You are fortunate to get frizzled silkies.  I have frizzled down silkies and a few of the ones they call sizzles.  I call them hard feathered frizzled silkies, or coochies for cochin/silkie crosses. Cathryn

From: englishlopswyoming <englishlopswyoming@yahoo.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, March 29, 2011 11:48:51 AM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Question: Frizzle Gene showed up in Silkies (pleitropy??)

 

A few years ago I bought some silkie eggs off Ebay (they didn't keep them separate by color of birds.. the silkies were all out together). Everything looked fine when they hatched but then I had a few chicks turn out with normal feathers and were frizzled. The guy I bought them from kept in contact with me and promised he had no other chickens, just Silkies with fuzz.. no normal feathers in the bunch.

What would cause that to happen? I tried to Google it.. the term Pleitropy came up.. but I didn't see anything that explained why / what / how. Don't know if that's what happened....

I used to raise rabbits and on VERY VERY rare occasions wool can turn up on a normal furred rabbit. I had wool turn up once in a litter.. of seven kits two had wool. But I had raise several thousand rabbits over the years and those were the only ones. The explanation was that 20+ generations before that litter an Angora was bred into that line of French Lops for type and the wool was then bred back out... but occasionally wool would still turn up in the line.

Is Frizzle a gene that just shows up sometimes? Is it something that was bred into the line generations ago? Was it a genetic deformity? Any thoughts?

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