I've never had a sizzle. You can't really compare a silkie to a frizzle. I think in the UK they are a distint breed. But here it is just a modifying gene and can be applied to any breed. I have seramas in normal feathers and frizzle (actually I have a silked roo also). I also have a frizzled tolbunt polish mixed in with my normal feathered ones. A sizzle is a frizzled silkie.
Clear as mud?
Deb
OK, from what I understand its 2 interlinked genes.
A silkie needs 2 missing hook genes to be silky.
a Frizzle needs 1 curly gene to be curly ( this can be curly and silky, super cute, or curly and smooth, also cute and easier to see.) IIRC smooth chicks are acceptable in this mix, as they carry the curly gene. But I'm unsure at this part. The silkie chicks smooth or silked that have the curly feathers I THINK ( could be wrong here, I get confused easily) are called sizzles. It might just be the silkie curled feather ones that are called sizzles.
A frizzle that gets 2 genes is called a frazzle, and there feathers are tweaked. MY Polish I got are frazzled. They seem to be lightly feathered but REALLY cute. Waititouts polish was a frazzle I think. Like breeding showgirl to showgirl, you want to be careful breeding frizzle to frizzle because you can get bare chickens.
Where I'm unclear is if a frizzle silkie ( smoothed feathers) carries 1 non hook gene and can give you silkies when bread back or if it gives silkie chicks, smooth chicks and sizzle chicks. I have a showgirl frizzle in the brooder and I'm wondering if I should add it, its the right colors and if i understand this all correctly it gives me silked frizzled and sizzled chicks, but not smooth chicks. Since Iggy is throwing smooth boys, unless I marked the eggs(assuming a hen) , i would not know who was a boy and who was a smooth frizzle carrier.
i have no eggs yet (silly girls! the oldest ones are 28 weeks now), but my plan for springtime is to swap with folks at school -- either for garden vegetables (i have so many deer and no fences, so growing anything is chancy at best) or after a few weeks they can buy me a nice bottle of wine or something. or maybe a bag of chicken feed!
I do trades for my extra eggs because it seemed easier then selling them. Plus I set eggs do I don't get a ton of extras. I got a lot more the $4 per trade. People went NUTS when I had duck eggs, zoo. One baker guy tried to convince me to get 10 girl duck for him, but he was crazy.
Through an unusual set of circumstances we've ended up having a place in the Cabo area. It's wonderful but we really need to have a yard if we are going to have our dogs with us, so at the moment we are only spending 1-2 weeks at a time down there. We are also renting it so that precludes us from being down there more.
Before the Cabo property happened we had been thinking of moving to San Diego to be somewhere warm, but now the plans have changed, as we have our "warm" place in Cabo! We are hoping to sell our house in Lafayette in 2 years and move to a "ranch" type place, 5+ acres in the Santa Cruz area. Wanting a much less expensive property more in the boonies! I've been cruising the web for properties and it looks like a great area for raises chickens!
In Cabo we met with many farmers and chefs on our last trip and I'm very excited about the many options we have down there.
So that's it in a nutshell. We plan to spend time in both regions!
Unless the economy tanks again, real estate in the bay area is starting to tweak out again. Mind you remote property is always more stable, but be careful waiting. Of course if we go into recession, 2 years will be perfect time to buy in Santa Cruze!
. I love the Hills between Silly Vally and SC, we would have gone to live there if we didn't find this place, it was my #1 area, you have good taste. incredible amount of both deer and predators, however.
My MIL owns a Japanese/Sushi restaurant in Rosarita, and she loves Mexico. You should have a lot of fun doing both!
Hey Cheryl. I put a bid in on that Lavender Marans roo on RBA.
If i win him, ill be working on the lav marans project too. And i would love if you could give me any background info or pointer for that project.
Thanks Cheryl
Mike
good luck! I love lavendar marans, gorgous!
