My bantam orp and sizzle chicks

shelleyb1969

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Jul 24, 2008
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I just wanted to post a few pics of chicks from my last hatch. Without going into details, I'll just say that this hatch was very heart wrenching for me. But I did come out with 4 beautiful chicks...2 bantam orpingtons from my own breeders and 2 sizzles from eggs I received from sarahssizzles.

2 Sizzles:
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bantam Orp:
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Another pic of the blue Sizzle:
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Bantam Orp and Sizzle:
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Yes, a sizzle is a cross between a frizzle and a silkie. My 2, however, I believe are the offspring of both a sizzle roo and a sizzle hen. I've got a couple of others who are 3 weeks older than these...not sure if they're going to be blue or black. But one of them is frizzled, and one of them isn't. I really hope both of the 2 new chicks are frizzled, especially the blue one.
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OK, I,m no expert, but I have been reading that you shouldn,t cross two frizzles because double frizzle genes result in overly brittle feathers along with other survivability issues. Since the sizzle is the frizzle gene it is the same thing. So if you had trouble with your hatch it might be from crossing two sizzles.
 
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The crossing was with a smooth feathered sizzle hen to a frizzle feathered sizzle roo...so that's ok. It's if you breed two frizzle feathered birds to one another that the problem arises...at least that's what I've been told.
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Edited to add that the problem with the hatch affected all the different breeds of chicks in the bator...not just the sizzles.
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