Avian Production Management

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.