Avian Production Management

INDIGENOUS FOWLS - FRIZZLE

• Frizzle fowls have oval body with well-developed comb and wattles. The skin is thin and pinkish pale in colour.
• The beak and shanks generally have no correlations with the plumage colour and are creamish pale in colour.
• The birds have single comb and earlobes are well developed with white spots on them. The eyes are bright and well-developed. Plumage colours vary considerably among the birds but white, brown, black and mixed colour are most common.
• Frizzle fowls are found all over the hot and humid coastal areas including Andaman Nicobar Islands.
• Good numbers of these birds are also available on high altitudes hilly tracts of North-Eastern states.
• It is said that birds have better adaptability to the hot and humid climatic conditions.