Frizzle or Sizzle?????

[shay20]

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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?

That was my fisrt time entering a frizzle at all, she looked like a silkie frizzle, she was a sizzle, but the sizzle is not reconized yet by apa, that is what i was told. I know that the frizzle is not a breed, but at that time i did not know that. this was a year ago.
Like i said before, I learned this the hard way, by bring mine to a show for the first time last year, it goes-
Frizzled cochin
frizzled polish
frizzled serama
frizzled ect, what ever the breed is.

I am now showing Frizzled Cochin bantam, she goes under this- Red Frizzle Cochin Bantam Pullet.

And that i think about it, the last show i went to i did see a Frizzle Polish bantam,
I should enter my frizzle polish, hehehe

any hoo, here is a pic of my Red frizzle cochin bantam

here are some frizzle cochins babys

and this is a frizzled polish

 

[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.

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.

When I say smooth I mean as in the feathers in a sizzle (lowercase s) that looks like this ( I also consider "hard" feathers to be that of the cochin, soft feathers to be that of the silkie) so they wouldn't be wanting Soft feathers.

And with Hard frizzled feathers as in a Sizzle (upercase S)

Thought the pic's would help describe what I'm saying incase others think of feathers the same way as you..

 

[shay20]

Pamperedpoultry, that second birds is so cute, nice feathering.

 

[pamperedpoultry]

Thanks I have a black hen just like her...

 

[PatiHF]

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..

 

[PatiHF]

These are beautiful birds! I'm getting overwhelmed by all this information on breeding and crossing.... I am just trying to have a small flock of egg layers! Once again, a chicken venture gone awry!

Such an excitingjourney!