I know it is a Sikie, Are they Sizzles?

[ChicknJ]

ahhh. didn't know that. Marie said she had one Sizzle, so I guess I just got lucky.
So this chick will carry the "frizzle" gene? Does anybody know about percentages in subsequent chicks from this hopefully hen?

The parent stock are blue, gray, black and splashes, now, help me breed for a splash sizzle... woohoo

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Frizzle is an incompletely dominant gene. Two copies and teh bird will be overly frizzled--a bad thing. You chick does not have that appearance, so has one copy of frizzle and one copy of not-frizzle, meaning that half her eggs will carry a copy of frizzle.

Since she is not blue, black, splash or grey, you can't easily breed those colours from her. Your closest bet is breeding her for partridge, from which you can transition to grey by removing the birds who display gold from the breeding stock. For this you need to acquire a grey silkie, but wait until s/he matures so you get the correct gender

Or decide on partridge and acquire a partridge mate for him/her.

 

[ChicknJ]

wow, thank you Sonoran Silkies and everyone else that jumped in with info. I will have to wait and see what the little one turns out to be color and feather wise.

 

[walkswithdog]

Yay! Another Sizzle person!!! And she's adorable. I have a few Sizzles, which is the curly hard feathered form of Sizzles - a splash roo, a blue hen and a black hen, a sizzle (little s) which is hard smooth feathered, he's blue and red but he's off combed however adorable.

I got them for broodies but fell in love with them for themselves. Now I'm branching out into making more, both for show and for pets since the blue/red boy is not an approved variety(color).

Good luck and here's hoping for a HER.

 

[ChicknJ]

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They sound cool and I would love to see pics. Do you have them posted here or anywhere?

I added some new pics to the first 3 of a different chick I am thinking may also be a Sizzle, but I just dunno.

Thanks for everybodies help.

 

[marie_martin]

Well, they are both sizzles. And my cochins are not in with my silkies, so I don't know what it going on with the color on that one. Unless you got the eggs back when I had all the birds together? I really don't recall? If so, there is a possibility that it is a mix. But I don't know where the brown came in? I don't have any brown birds except for my faverolles??? And they are separated all the time. The second one is a sizzle and looks to be pure silkie from the color. I only have blue/black/splash silkies. I am very confused about that first one?

Marie Martin

 

[ChicknJ]

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I'm glad to hear the cochins are not in with the Silkies. I had one mean butted cochin once and just never liked em.

I will update you periodically so we can see what happens with these lil girls. The black and gray one is cute cute. Some of those babies have a top knot already so big they can't see. Ridiculous lil fluffers.