The Sizzle Thread!

[ket806]

I think you are correct; however, I'm not using cochins in my breeding. I have a sizzle hen that is bred with my buff silkie roo. This will give me regular silkies, frizzled silkies, smooth sizzles, and sizzles. I know that the next step is to take one of the smooth sizzle roosters and breed him back to his mom. This would give me a good amount of sizzles. I would obviously keep all my sizzles, and can start the process all over again with them and another rooster. My question is, should I keep the frizzled silkies and work them into the breeding program some how? My only idea is to pair them with a smooth sizzle. Crossing them back to silkies would just give me more silkie type feathering correct?

Thats correct! Though you would want to take your smooth sizzles and cross them back with a sizzle(for a "purer" line of sizzle) and leave your frizzled cochins out of the mix( That combination will throw you more frizzled cochins/silkies then sizzles) after you continue that process then a few generations in you can start working on type and getting your best quality smooth to your best quality sizzle to produce the "perfect" sizzles for sale. My oppinion is... I would not throw the frizzled silkies into the mix because of all the extra back breeding you would have to do. Though it is up to you if you don't want to get rid of the chick then you will have to do tons of back breeding to do to get to your desired sizzles. I personally don't want to do the extra work of back breeding my small amount of smooths and possible sizzles to get the frizzled silkie out of the mix to just give me my resulting smooth sizzles and sizzles. I hope that makes some sort of sense I do not think I was very clear in my last post to the answer of your question. GOOD LUCK! Edited because it cut half of it off

 

[hoppy]

breed your frizzled silkie to a smooth sizzle, that should produce more curly birds. you will already have the silkie type and the smooth with frizzle will give you great curly babies, not alot of work that ket806 says. if you don't have smooth sizzles, then it's not a very useful bird. you do not want to breed it to a silkie as you will just get more silkie feathering.

Mine is most definitely a frizzled silkie, not a sizzle. A sizzle has barbed feathers. Mine has the silkie feathering, but looks like the one posted yesterday:


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Is it worth keeping and using in my sizzle project? Or will it just produce more frizzled silkies?

 

[Gracie9205]

Thanks for the input everyone!

 

[omaeve]

I have a Polish/Silke Frizzle she has 5 black toes, white skin , and a polish V comb..
she is blue and I am breeding her to my Blue silkie roo. Hen is laying eggs 6 days a week for 6 weeks now. What should I do? Would I take all the hens and breed back to father if they are not Sizzle in f1? Breeders out there HELP PLEASE.

 

[hoppy]

I find the best pairing is take the chicks and breed them smooth to curly. since you have white skin as an issue, don't keep any with white skin unless that's all you get or if it's an outstanding bird in every other way.

 

[omaeve]

THANK YOU

 

[rbloomer]

Just found this thread and so happy finding more sizzle lovers. I am going on 16 and 17th generation and absolutely love this breed.

 

[moomoodiddy]

hey yall im gettin some frizzles in a couple weeks i think theyre cuckoo

 

[ellymayRans]

Be sure to post pics!! Love to see'em!
This is our newest addition; black frizzled cochin. He was quick to fit in...so funny! I'll try to get better outdoor pics later...it's snowing out here in IN!! Blah!
Spring just cannot get here fast enough!

 

[littlecritters]

hey yall im gettin some frizzles in a couple weeks i think theyre cuckoo

How exciting! Please share pictures when they arrive.