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Hi there,
Just curious. What generation are the sizzles. What I mean is, are these first generation silkies crossed with bantam cochins?? What colors? I posted a while back about what you would call the silkie/cochin crosses and wasn't told they were sizzles. Glad to hear otherwise. I love them.
Thanks
Yeah sizzles are a project bird and you start with a frizzled cochin and a silkie, the main goal for sizzles are to have all the characteristics of the silkie, (dark skin, comb, 5 toes, crest) but the feathers of the cochin either frizzled or smooth. I keep smooth hens with frizzled roos and vice versa. So you will get a chance of smooth or frizzled mine are 3rd generation and every now and then you will get one with a single comb.
Ok I think I got it. So you are breeding sizzle to sizzle now right? So actually a sizzle is a frizzled cochin and silkie cross. I just have the silkie crossed with a cochin. I think they are adorable. I've since bred the F1's to each other and did get one with the silkie feathering which I was told I wouldn't get unless I bred it back to a silkie?????
Anyway do you have pictures of the sizzles?? Oh and what color are they??
Hi there,
Just curious. What generation are the sizzles. What I mean is, are these first generation silkies crossed with bantam cochins?? What colors? I posted a while back about what you would call the silkie/cochin crosses and wasn't told they were sizzles. Glad to hear otherwise. I love them.
Thanks
Yeah sizzles are a project bird and you start with a frizzled cochin and a silkie, the main goal for sizzles are to have all the characteristics of the silkie, (dark skin, comb, 5 toes, crest) but the feathers of the cochin either frizzled or smooth. I keep smooth hens with frizzled roos and vice versa. So you will get a chance of smooth or frizzled mine are 3rd generation and every now and then you will get one with a single comb.
Ok I think I got it. So you are breeding sizzle to sizzle now right? So actually a sizzle is a frizzled cochin and silkie cross. I just have the silkie crossed with a cochin. I think they are adorable. I've since bred the F1's to each other and did get one with the silkie feathering which I was told I wouldn't get unless I bred it back to a silkie?????
Anyway do you have pictures of the sizzles?? Oh and what color are they??
