Is this a....FRAZZLE? (PICS)

[InsaneBreeder]

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When you cross a frizzle with a silkie and breed the offspring (I think) to each other or others of the same cross, you will eventually get sizzles, which are basically frizzled silkies without the silkie feathering (again, I think, but I am not an expert on this).

 

[walkswithdog]

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When you cross a frizzle with a silkie and breed the offspring (I think) to each other or others of the same cross, you will eventually get sizzles, which are basically frizzled silkies without the silkie feathering (again, I think, but I am not an expert on this).

This is a sixth generation splash Sizzle -

A bad picture of a "smooth" small s, sizzle - he'd look better but he just stuck his head in the water...
behind him another Sizzle

 

[InsaneBreeder]

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When you cross a frizzle with a silkie and breed the offspring (I think) to each other or others of the same cross, you will eventually get sizzles, which are basically frizzled silkies without the silkie feathering (again, I think, but I am not an expert on this).

This is a sixth generation splash Sizzle - https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/13263_april23elmerand_048.jpg

A bad picture of a "smooth" small s, sizzle - he'd look better but he just stuck his head in the water...
behind him another Sizzle

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/13263_april23elmerand_057.jpg

How many generations do you breed them for until they are considered Sizzles?

 

[walkswithdog]

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This is a sixth generation splash Sizzle - https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/13263_april23elmerand_048.jpg

A bad picture of a "smooth" small s, sizzle - he'd look better but he just stuck his head in the water...
behind him another Sizzle

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/13263_april23elmerand_057.jpg

How many generations do you breed them for until they are considered Sizzles?

You start seeing more predictable and reliably Sizzle looking birds at about generation 5 - if you haven't ever gone back to cochin or silkie...

My sixth generation threw no cochin type combs, no real red combs, no frilkies or silkie feathered birds. All walnut combs, mulberry or black skin, crests still need work in slightly over half the birds produced. Some are almost where I'd like them. I got no odd colors this batch just blue, black or splash, except where I'm playin with birchen birds.

But I have a fifth generation brown red sizzle that has a cochin comb in RED - he looks like a cochin with a small crest. His coloring is spectacular so I'm trying reproduce him in Sizzle just for fun.

Warning they're evil and addictive and you should consider fully whether any further interest in sizzles is good for your soul.

 

[InsaneBreeder]

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How many generations do you breed them for until they are considered Sizzles?

You start seeing more predictable and reliably Sizzle looking birds at about generation 5 - if you haven't ever gone back to cochin or silkie...

My sixth generation threw no cochin type combs, no real red combs, no frilkies or silkie feathered birds. All walnut combs, mulberry or black skin, crests still need work in slightly over half the birds produced. Some are almost where I'd like them. I got no odd colors this batch just blue, black or splash, except where I'm playin with birchen birds.

But I have a fifth generation brown red sizzle that has a cochin comb in RED - he looks like a cochin with a small crest. His coloring is spectacular so I'm trying reproduce him in Sizzle just for fun.

Warning they're evil and addictive and you should consider fully whether any further interest in sizzles is good for your soul.

So do you inbreed or start with different pairs? And why exactly are they evil? (although I can understand "addictive")

 

[walkswithdog]

You really have to inbreed to create a breed. There aren't that many people with working sizzle lines. When I find one with birds in the same general generation and with traits that compliment mine, I try to bring in some of their eggs. This year I am going back to silkies to try and improve comb/skin color. It means I'll get more silkie feathered birds - whether normal or frilkie. But it will help sort out our mulberry combs and improve crests. I'm also taking generation four and six birds from my breeder - who gave me 5th Gen. eggs, the ones she has that are improvements on what I have.

It's work but it's fun.

They're evil because they desire World Dominion. Because they're Sizzles the little soul stealers are going to win. I find I don't mind much any more.