Frizzle Chicken

     The Frizzle is a purely exhibition Chicken breed of Asiatic origins. It is notable for its quaint feather formation, as each feather is curling towards the head of the bird. In fact, the Frizzle is much more popular as bantams than as large fowls.

     The Frizzle is  a standard breed in many European countries such as; Belgium, France, Germany and the UK. But not in the USA and some other countries, as it’s considered as a sub-variety for different standard breeds. Frizzle hens are good layers of white or tinted eggs (around 160 eggs per year), and may go broody too. Large fowls of this breed are also good table birds, that are perfectly well suited to free-range rearing or outdoor pens.

     The Frizzle is a good forager and a hardy chicken as well, although the curled feathers don’t protect it well from rain. When Frizzle pairs are bred, half of the offspring are frizzled exactly like the parent breed. 25% will have normal feathering, and 25% will be “over-Frizzled”, with brittle feathers instead. Frizzles have been bred in several color-varieties which include; black, blue, buff, white columbian, duckwing, black-red, and cuckoo. They have moderate-sized single combs and wattles, red earlobes, and they are always clean legged.