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  1. Krys109uk

    Silkie cochin mix

    I understand how alot of the breed were developed by mixing diffferent breed, but what I don't understand is how is the frizzle made so to speak, does it just happen out of fluke in any breed? The initial frizzle gene will probably have been a spontaneous mutation. Since that time people will...
  2. Krys109uk

    Silkie cochin mix

    where does it come from, how does it develope, how can it be in the Standard of Perfection if it has to be bred with another breed? Most breeds are developed from other pre-existing breeds. This is nothing unusual. Most new colours & varieties start from an outcross, sometimes to another...
  3. Krys109uk

    Silkie cochin mix

    Which ones (cochin or silkie) will be males/females in the first generation? I was referring to silkie X cochin. Not to the breeds individually. A silkie male crossed onto a cochin female gives dark skinned female offspring & light skinned male offspring.
  4. Krys109uk

    Silkie cochin mix

    Cuz if you cross a cochin, with a silkie you get - some frizzled birds, some smooth and some silkied, those birds are f1 sizzles This would be the exception rather than the rule & in a very specific instance. Short of a spontaneous mutation, the gene has to comefrom somewhere.
  5. Krys109uk

    Silkie cochin mix

    I was looking for frizzles and little did I know I was making them, If your chicks are silkie male on normal cochin hen then your chicks aren't going to be frizzles. They would need the frizzle gene in order to be frizzles. Unfortunately they won;t be sizzles either. In order to be classified...
  6. Krys109uk

    Silkie cochin mix

    so a sizzle is any breed crossed with a silkie? when you combine either a silky feathered bird and a normal feathered bird, or a silkie and a bird already frizzled - frizzles or sizzles are your result. Sizzles are a new breed, basically the goal is a bird with silkie features- the walnut...
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