Silkie hen + Frizzle Roo = ? (1 month update)

[Aria]

All Baby Chicks are adorable...just like babies. Keep showing us photos. Like to see how they grow and what they grow to become. Beautiful Chickens...usually.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Your roo is beautiful.
Visit my website to see what I use for Sizzle breeding and many of the offspring. I have a Silkie roo over a red Frizzle hen.

Here is a roo I have decided to keep from that cross that is smooth feathered. You can also see a Sizzle roo in the background but that is from a different cross. Mr Smooth is super sweet so I am having a hard time parting with him. I put him his big butt up about every day and coo at him. He guards the broody hens with gusto from the other roos that want to torture them but is super nice to people. his dad, Buff Boy is just as wonderful and I scoop him up for hugs every day, too. I sell these as childrens pets all the time.
My website has a page just for Sizzles but I also have a Frizzle page. I am still updating it as it is a huge website.

Here is his sister with a Sizzle roo.

I sold many of the Sizzle (curly feathered) chicks but kept a few girls.

I have expanded my breeding pens to get more colors but the blue/reds sell like mad. Depending on my bloodlines, I get black skin and 5 toes in my Sizzles about half the time.

 

[hoppy]

I have a sizzle (frizzled silkie) and I breed her with a silkie roo. most times I get 5 toes. I get single combs on a few, smooth feathered like polish and many sizzled chicks. i do get some that start out frizzled and then change to a more silkie feathered bird. I think this is where some sizzles can show up later because as adults they appear as a silkie although as chicks they were not normally silkie feathered.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

A sizzle does not have silkied feathers--that would be a frizzled silkie. A sizzle has all silkie features EXCEPT silkie feathering. It has frizzled, non-silkied feathering.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I have numerous breeders tell me that the Frizzle gene, if not expressed, can not be carried.
However, I have a hen here that I know came from a Silkie roo and a Silkie/Cochin hen that a friend gave me. She has never had a Frizzle or Sizzle on her place.
Since this is only my second year of focused breeding with mine I still haven't crossed 2 smooths to see what I could get.

 

[chickendales]

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not always ive seen then with frizzle and silkie feather there realy cool looking

 

[Skittlez]

Your chicks are very cute. Here is a pic of our frizzle silkie roo and a pic of our sizzle hen. She is a chochin/frizzle silkie mix. Quite the difference in feathers.

roo

hen

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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not always ive seen then with frizzle and silkie feather there realy cool looking

Frizzled silkie= frizzled AND silkied feathers
Sizzle= frizzled and NON-silkied feathers

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Not entirely correct. There is a second gene that unfrizzles feathers. To an extent, it makes a bird with one copy of the frizzle gene look as if it is not frizzled, and a bird with two copies look as if there is only one copy present. The frizzle modifier gene is recessive, meaning that a bird must have two copies for it to impact the feathers, although the frizzling or curliness may be apparent in immature feathers. If the frizzle gene is not present at all, it has no affect.

I have heard both the the modifier is rare and that it is common. I do not know which is accurate.

 

[chickendales]

Frizzled silkie now thats my kinda bird