A frizzled [insert breed]

[UGAchick]

I am going to pick these up today. I am very excited because I have wanted frizzles for some time.

http://athensga.craigslist.org/grd/1724355816.html

The seller does not know what breed or even if they are standard or bantams. They look like bantams to me, and I am assuming that they are cochins. Am I right? What is this color called?

Let's start the frizzle breeding debate:

I know not to breed the male and female frizzle. I was thinking of getting a couple female silkies or cochins. The result would either be some frizzles or sizzles, right? What color hens should I get and what would the results be?

I am so excited to start raising frizzle/sizzles!!

 

[cthrash1]

Can't reall see the legs so not sure if it's a Cochin... Looks like it may be a splash color from a blue, black, splash breeding.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Looks just like my splash sizzle (that errs on the cochin side-single comb) Any babies you'll get will be blue I think. I used smooth white cochins to get blue frizzle cochin babies with 5 toes.

 

[UGAchick]

Do cochins have feathered legs?

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Yes

 

[danischi24]

Looks like it has some silkie in it already. Maybe an early generation sizzle.

 

[rancher hicks]

Most likely Cochin. Color doesn't matter cuz I like them anyhow.
Crossed a Red/blk bantam friz w/ a CM got one non friz and one friz. sex unknown but cute. She also laid a Del cross that was non friz. Looks like a Del. Not sure how big they will get but one guy who has one of her chicks says it's smaller than normal . The degree to which they friz varies.

 

[LilPeeps]

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I agree. It's definitely not a pure cochin, and is splash in color.

 

[UGAchick]

Interesting that it has some silkie. The seller has no idea... (neither did I!)

In your opinions, should I breed it with a silkie or a cochin? What color offspring could I get with a splash roo?

This is fun!!

 

[LilPeeps]

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It depends on what you want to do with them. If you want to work on sizzles, breed to a silkie. If you want them to look more like cochins, breed to a cochin. With splash, if you breed to a black, you will get 100% blue offspring. If you breed to a blue, you will get 50% blue, 50% splash. If you breed to another splash, you will get 100% splash, although it isn't suggested that you breed splash x splash for more that a couple generations, as it washed out the splash.