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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 offI 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?
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