Frizzle or Sizzle?????

[renegaderidgefarm]

Here's my beautiful big boy!

 

[shay20]

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Frizzle is recognised for EVERY BREED by both the APA and ABA.

Hmmm when i brought my sizzle in show, i put her in as a frizzle, i put no other breed in, and they DQed her.
They told me that the frizzle should be cochin frizzle, have the color skin of a cochin, crown as a cochin. And they put her cage in the cochin section.

 

[shay20]

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He is nice looking.

 

[SunAngel]

So, can you get Sizzles just from breeding a Frizzled roo with a Silkie hen?

Or do I have to breed one of their frizzled offspring back to the Silkie hens?

 

[shay20]

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You can breed a frizzled roo to a silkie hen.

 

[pamperedpoultry]

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Thats the start to getting sizzles, then you pick the best offspring of those, looking for dark skin, 5 toes, silkie combs, but hard feathers Not the silke feathers.

 

[walkswithdog]

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no your not wrong! it makes the chicks feathers brittle!

Never breed frizzle to frizzle!!!!

Only 25% of chicks of both parents carry Frizzle or Sizzle, in the case of Sizzles - are curly or frazzled. Most apparently do quite well. I have four now. One is smaller, the others are durable silly, good sized and thriving. The other nine that hatched are either smooth sizzles or Sizzles and very nice at that. An advantage of the Frazzled ones is that they will throw entire hatches of Sizzles, instead of Sizzles and smooths. They also help since I am adding in Silkies this year to shore up some silkie features in the group. Going Sizzle to silkie or smooth to silkie would end up adding a lot of smooths and silkie feathered and frilkies to the group which just aren't as useful. If I take a Blue Frazzle Sizzle to a Blue Silkie hen, I'm going to get nothing but Sizzles or Frilkies. Immediately useful for the next generation. The same blue roo over my smooth splash and blue pullets, will produce all Sizzles. Less feeding and growing out birds you don't need in a program.

My bantams and my large fowl get along really well, and I didn't have a problem with them mixing when they were free range for late summer.

Though most of the bantams, except the roos, are penned up for winter right now. I did manage to hatch a Sizzle/delaware LOL. I may breed her back to a frazzle just for fun come spring... LF Dizzles.

 

[nzpouter]

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A frizkie (frizzled silkie) on the left, a sizzle (silkie x frizzle) on the right....

Note the feather difference? both are frizzled (1 dose of F), but the bird on the left also have a double dose of reccessive silkie gene...... for this, you'll need both parents to be carrier of silkie feather condition..

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Thats the start to getting sizzles, then you pick the best offspring of those, looking for dark skin, 5 toes, silkie combs, but hard feathers Not the silke feathers.

Actually you want SOFT SMOOTH feathers. Soft/hard feathering has nothing to do with silkie feathering. Cochins and brahmas have soft feathers; OEGB and other gamebirds have hard feathers.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Frizzle is recognised for EVERY BREED by both the APA and ABA.

Hmmm when i brought my sizzle in show, i put her in as a frizzle, i put no other breed in, and they DQed her.
They told me that the frizzle should be cochin frizzle, have the color skin of a cochin, crown as a cochin. And they put her cage in the cochin section.

Frizzle is not a breed; it is a variation. You need to enter a bird under the breed that it is (be it cochin, silkie, OEGB, RIR, brahma, etc.) as well as the variety (buff, blue, splash, silver duckwing, mottled, etc. and also list "frizzled." For a sizzle, since that is being promoted as BREED, you would enter the breed as sizzle.

I would assume that your bird was closest to a cochin if they entered her as a cochin. Did she meet the breed standards for a silkie except for feathering?