Origin: Asia

Classification: Heavy: Soft Feather

Egg Colour: White or Light brown

The Frizzle, a purely exhibition breed, is of Asiatic origin, and is notable for its quaint feather formation, each feather curling towards the head of the bird. It is more popular in the bantams than in the large fowls.

General characteristics- Male

Carriage: Strutting and erect

Type: Body broad and short. Breast full and rounded. Wings long. Tail rather large, erect, full but loose. With full sickles and plenty of side hangers. Lyre tails in the males desirable but not obligatory.

Head: Fine. Beak short and strong. Eyes full and bright. Comb single, medium sized and upright. Face smooth, ear lobes and wattles moderate size and bright red.

Neck: Of medium length abundantly frizzled.

Legs and Feet: legs of medium length. Shanks free from feathers. Toes, four, rather thin and well spread.

Plumage: Moderately long, broad and crisp, each feather curled towards the birds head, and the frizzling as close and abundant as possible.

Female: The general characteristics are similar to those of the male, allowing for the natural sexual differences, except that the comb is much smaller and the neck is not so abundantly frizzled.

Colour: Male and female plumage: Black, blue, buff or white, a pure even shade throughout in the ‘self coloured varieties’.

Colours:

White: Pure white, free from yellow or straw tinge.
 
Black: Pure black, under colour to be as dark (black) as possible.
 
Blue: One even shade of blue, light to dark, but medium preferred; a clear solid blue, free from mealiness, 'pepper', sandiness or bronze, and quite clear of lacing; a 'self colour' in fact.
 
Buff: Clear, sound buff throughout to the skin, allowing greater lustre on the hackles and wing bow of the male. With these exceptions the colour should be perfectly uniform, but washiness or a red tinge, mealiness or 'pepper' to be avoided.
 
Cuckoo: Light blue or grey ground colour. Each feather marked across with bands of dark blue or grey, the markings to be uniform, the banding shading into the ground colour. Not clearly defined but sharp enough to keep the two colours distinct.
 
Spangle:
Male Plumage: Neck, hackle and saddle dark red, finely tipped with white. Breast and thighs black, finely and evenly tipped with white. Back and shoulders dark red, finely tipped with white. Wings: wing bow dark red, finely tipped with white with a rich dark blue bar across, finely tipped with white; secondaries deep bay intermixed with white, bay predominating; primaries black intermixed with white. Tail, sickles and side hangers tipped with white, straight feathers black intermixed with white.

Female Plumage: Neck, hackle golden-red, streaked with black, finely tipped with white. Breast and thighs dark salmon, finely and evenly tipped with white. Back and shoulders partridge-coloured feathers, finely and evenly tipped with white. Wings: secondaries, partridge intermixed with white, partridge predominating; primaries dark, intermixed with white. All other feathers partridge colour finely and evenly tipped with white. Tail black with partridge coverts, finely and evenly tipped with white.
 
Pile:
Male Plumage: Neck and saddle orange or chestnut-red. Breast and thighs white. Back and shoulders deep red. Wings: wing bow red with a white bar across; secondaries bay colour on outer web; primaries white. Tale white.

Female Plumage: Neck lemon. Breast salmon, lighter towards thighs. Back and wings white. Tail white.
 
Columbian: Pearl-white with black markings. Primaries (wing) black or black edged with white: secondaries black inner web and white outer. The male's neck hackle broadly striped with intense black down the centre of each feather, such stripe entirety surrounded by a clearly defined white margin and finishing with a decided white point (free from black outer edging or black tips). Saddle hackle white. Tail glossy green-black, coverts either laced or not with white. The female's hackle bright intense black, each feather surrounded by a well defined white margin. Tail feathers black, except the top pair, which may or may not be laced with white. Remainder (in both sexes) white, entirely free of ticking, with slate or blue-white undercolour.
 
Red:
Male plumage: The neck red, harmonising with back and breast. Wing primaries, the lower web black, with black along outer edge permissible and the upper web red; secondaries, the lower web red, and the upper black: flight coverts black; wing bows and coverts red. Tail, main feathers, including sickles, black or greenish-black; coverts mainly black, but they may become russet or red as they approach the saddle. The hackle to show a rich brilliant red, except where black is specified. It should be free from shafting, mealy appearance or brassy effect. Absolute evenness of colour is desirable. The bird should be so brilliant in lustre as to have a glossed appearance. The undercolour and quill feather should be red or salmon. With the saddle parted, showing the undercolour at the base of the tail, appearance should be red or salmon, not whitish or smoky. Black or white in the undercolour of any section is undesirable.

Female plumage: Neck hackle to be red, the tips of the lower feather may show black ticking, but not heavy lacing. The tail should be black or greenish-black. However, the upper webs of the two main tail feathers maybe edged with red. In all sections of the wing the undercolour and quills of the feathers are as in the males. With the remainder of the plumage the surface should be a rich dark, even and lustrous red. but not as brilliant a lustre as in the male. It should be free from shafting or mealy appearance.
'Note; when all other points are equal the specimen having the richest undercolour shall receive the award'
 
Black-red (partridge bred):
Male plumage: Neck, hackle and saddle dark rich red shading to deep orange. Breast and thighs black. Back and shoulders deep crimson. Wings: wing bow deep red with a red dark blue bar across; secondaries bay colour on outer web; primaries black. Tail, sound black with lustrous green gloss.

Female Plumage: (Partridge) Neck golden-red and streaked with black. Breast and thighs shaded salmon. Back and wings partridge colour to be as tree from rust and shaftiness as possible. Tail black with partridge coverts.
 
Black-red (wheaten bred):
Male plumage: Neck, hackle deep orange, shading off to bright lemon. Back and saddle bright crimson. Breast and thighs black. Wings: wing bow bright red with a red dark blue bar across: secondaries bay colour on outer web; primaries black. Tail, sound black with lustrous green gloss.

Female Plumage: (Wheaten) Neck hackle white gold free from streaks. Delicate creamy self-colour on remainder. Tail black with a shading of wheaten corresponding with body colour.
 
Brown-red:
Male Plumage: Neck and saddle lemon or orange, streaked with black. Breast black laced with brown to top of thighs. Back lemon or orange. Wings: shoulder and wing bow lemon or orange, rest of wing black. Tail black.

Female plumage: Neck, hackle lemon or orange, striped with black. Breast and thighs black laced with brown. Body black. Tail black.
 
Silver duckwing:
Male plumage: Neck and saddle white, free from dark streaks. Breast and thighs black. Back and shoulders silver-while. Wings: wing bow silver-white, wing bar steel blue; secondaries white when closed; primaries black. Tail black.

Female plumage: Neck lightly striped with black. Breast and thighs salmon shading off to ash-grey on thighs. Back and wings silvery grey, free from rust and shaftiness. Tail black, coverts corresponding with body colour.
 
Cold duckwing:
Male plumage: Hackle yellow, saddle straw. Breast and thighs black. Back and shoulders orange or rich yellow (golden). Wings: wing bow orange or rich yellow, wing bars steel blue; secondaries white when closed, primaries black. Tail black.

Female plumage: Neck lightly striped with black. Breast and thighs salmon shading oft'to ash-grey on thighs. Back and wings silvery grey, free from rust and shaftiness. Tail black, coverts corresponding with body colour.
 
Mottled: Black with white tips to each feather, the tips as evenly distributed as possible. Black to predominate and to have a rich green sheen.
 
Crele:
Male plumage: Neck and saddle chequered (barred) orange. Back and shoulders deep chequered orange. Wings: wing bow deep chequered orange with dark grey bar across; secondaries bay in colour on the outer web: primaries dark grey. Tail dark grey.

Female plumage: Neck lemon chequered with grey. Breast and thighs chequered salmon. Back and wings chequered blue-grey. Tail to correspond with body colour.
 
Barred: Equal width of black (with beetle-green sheen) and while bars, clear-cut and horizontal, carried to the skin and finished with a black tip. It is important that there is a sharpness in the barring and that there should be an overall flow making a distinct pattern over the body. Undercolour barred to the skin with as many bars as possible. Any black or while feathers in wings or body is a disqualification.
 
Silver:
Male plumage: Head, neck and saddle hackles white striped with black, the black centre of each feather to be entirely surrounded by a white margin. Wing bow and back silvery-white; coverts forming bar black; flights and secondaries black tinged with grey. Breast black with white shafts, and silver lacing round feathers. Thighs dark grey showing faint lacing. Tail black. Undercolour grey-black shading to white at skin.

Female plumage: Head and neck hackles as in male. Back and wing bow greyish, each feather showing white shafl with fine silver lacing surrounding it; flights and secondaries greyish-black. Tail black. Breast and thighs lighter shade of greyish-black with white shafts and silver lacing to correspond with the top colour. Undercolour as in the male.
 

Other varieties as in ‘Old English game’.

In both sexes and all colours:

• Beak yellow
• Legs and feet yellow
• Eyes red
• Comb, face, wattles and ear lobes bright red

(Yellow legs are preferred in blacks, although dark legs are permitted)

Weights:
 

Large fowl:

Bantams: Frizzle bantams follow the large fowl standard

Scale of points: (same for large and bantams)
 

Serious defects: Narrow feather. Want of curl. Long tail. Drooping comb. Other than single comb. White lobes. Deformity of any kind.