| Show frizzled chickens do not always breed true A problem of interest to breeders bleeders bre eders of frizzled chickens lias has been settled by dr F B hutt of the poultry division university farm st paul frizzled chickens are a favorite variety with ninny many fanciers and have attracted more or less attention in recent years at poultry shows As deser described 1 I vol I 1 by y doctor hutt the feathers of the frizzled variety curl toward the head instead ste ad of fitting closely tind mid s smoothly to the body the appearance lie he says ts is mot th nt of a fowl which lina has been pulled backward through a tight hole in the rence fence A question early arose as to why frizzled chickens did riot not breed true and doctor hutt then at the university of edinburgh undertook to solve tile the problem completing tits ills experiments after lie came to university farm lie ile says say there types of frizzled frizzle fowl one tin nn extreme type almost woolly and the other or more common type the feathers of which stand out stiffly and make a ruff about the birds neck it Is ill the e latter hitter type which wins prizes in the shows birds of this thlu type mated with birds of 0 like type to do not breed true the results tire are in the ratio of one woolly to two ordinary drizzled P led birds oil and on one normal smooth feathered bird but if a woolly frizzle Is mated with a normal or a smooth feathered bit bird all of the progeny eity tire are of the lie show type |
