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Quote: We've a group set up on yahoo groups - Sizzles. Pretty simple. There's quite a bit of interest, though most folks are working in the f1-f5 generations. I started with some f4 eggs so I got a quick leg up, but am working in a silkie group for my next generation to firm up type. I do...

Weird... Cuz if you cross a cochin, with a silkie you get - some frizzled birds, some smooth and some silkied, those birds are f1 sizzles. Then you use the Sizzled (frizzled) and the smooth, and you get more Sizzles, more smooths and more silkies and some curlie silkies sometimes. Move up...

A group of breeders are developing a standard now - basically adopting the silkie standard with the Sizzle type feathering, also reflecting an acceptance of smooth birds since we need them to keep it all going. And since we're just developing the breed I figure I might be able to wedge in a...

It was his appeal to people as a pet that kept him from being culled and he is instead going to head my pet line of Sizzles, he's either blue birchen, or a modified black birchen - we'll see what he produces once I get him hens. If I keep up with it, since sizzles are a new breed, maybe I can...

Are they not totally adorable??? I am so hooked.

Yes, that's how frizzles or sizzles are made - 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 comb...

White to buff is an amazing total crapshoot of color Buff can have several genetic origins. White is only a mask and what color the hen is "behind" the mask is unknowable. Though it varies, blue look silver/gray/dk gray. Black chicks look dk gray or black - hard to tell at first. Gray...