CENTRAL FL SWAP MEET!!!!! See post #720 for new thread

[~SunSetsWest~]

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You know you love them as much as I do!! And everyone needs a full coop!! Want me to save a couple for you?

Here's my new (and first ever) duck that I got at the swap yesterday:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15626_dscn1576.jpg

You took crackers, now you need a girl!

 

[tailsnfeathers]

Kelly I NEED a white silkie pullet. thank you, thank you, thankyou.

 

[KellyHM]

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I know...where am I going to find one?!

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I don't have any Silkies left...but I do have a yellow Sizzle left over. I think it will be white when it grows up. And lots of other little bantams.

 

[renatpreschool]

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Is that a trick question? LOL It's the meaties conversation all over again... YES save me a couple if you have them

Thank you!


Oh, and what colors are you getting?

 

[tailsnfeathers]

My bounty from the swap:
3 adorable key westies., 3 tiny buttons. 1 cute black sizzle, (or frizzle) and 2 cockatiels. The grey one TALKS! to the young man who sold them to me, what are their names? ??

Kelly, will your sizzle be a frizzle or a silkie? what will it look like when grown? ( I still have sizzle confusion)

 

[KellyHM]

ren - I don't know what colors they are yet. I'll be picking them up after Thanksgiving, so I'll let you know then.

tails - the Sizzle will have dark skin and 5 toes like a Silkie, but it will have regular feathers like a Cochin that may or may not be Frizzled.

 

[tailsnfeathers]

Kelly, please let me know if any of those Thanksgiving silkies are white!

 

[4kidZ]

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That would be Ladybug's boy, David (I think...unless it was Thomas' cockatiel)

And, here is a little more info on sizzles. They are SIZZLES, but they could come out silkie feathered or curly feathered or REALLY curly (as you go through the generations...this is what us sizzle breeders are striving for) and you have a 3rd generation that ACTUALLY originally came from Ladybug, also!

Info from my friend, Sarah who got me HOOKED on sizzles. She is in Arizona and is ALSO on her 3rd gen, but has worked THROUGH to that generation...as opposed to starting from a 3rd gen.:

"To explain Sizzles...Cross a Frizzled bird, I used Cochins because they have feathered feet, to a Silkie and you will get 4 different types of Sizzles
Type #1 You will get the Sizzles I'm breeding for, like Boop, curled hard feathers, top knot, blue skin, five toes & Silkie combs.
Type #2 smooth feathers with topknots, 5 toes, blue skin & Silkie combs.
Type #3 what I call Frilkies are frizzled Silkies with all the Silkie traites but the feathers curl.
Type #4 Look just like Silkies but, carry the genetics for curly feathers and ...hopefully ..all the other traits your after.. as do all of the other types.
As you probably know, you can't breed curly to curly so all the types are necessary.

When you first start crossing you will also get all kinds of combinations of the different traits. Of the 200+ chicks I hatched this year I have gradually weeded them down to about 40 that I'm keeping and some of those may still go because they have the wrong type of comb or not enough toes or I don't like the coloring. The pic of the Blue Silkie feathered roo is a good example. Nice topknot, decent feathering on the feet, color is OK, although I don't like the gold developing in his neck but, he has only 4 toes on one foot, one with out a nail. "

That should clear everything up for you! She has some AWESOME looking birds!

Here is a pic of Sarah's Sizzle "BOOP"

and here is her first pullet & cockerel

~4kidZ

ps~ ladybug took some of my Sizzles to the swap ... Did anyone get any? Most were silkie feathered sizzles. Great color combos.

 

[renatpreschool]

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Score!!! Thanks girl!

Dolly and Shoey had a blast today! I gave them some yogurt and let them play outside for awhile and they were in heaven. They're so sweet!

 

[kdcrws]

my turn to post baby pics!!!

one of Bitty's Cochins and Kelly's EE

Two Sizzles from Kelly

i got a ttl of 3 cochins, 3 EE's and 2 sizzles and all r peepin' away! Can't wait till next time!