silkie seramas

[walkswithdog]

I had to stick my two cents in here LOL... I'm going to add Sizzle to silkied seramas

My backyard is going to be a fun place to be

 

[BluegrassSeramas]

walkswithdog:
Then you must need a frizzled serama......Hmmmmmmmmm
Wondering where you could find one of those???

 

[LilPeeps]

Frizzled silkied seramas would be cool, or would they be sizzle seramas...?

 

[BluegrassSeramas]

I think that is sizzled? Hmmmmm?

 

[walkswithdog]

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Either way... You and me need to do a DEAL

So you gonna have eggs in Fall???? HMMMMM????

 

[BluegrassSeramas]

Yup! Eggs and birds in the fall!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Seems to be that a sizzled serama would be the same as a frizzled serama. With the sizzles, silkie feathering is being bred out, not retained. A frizzled silkie serama would have the silkie feathering.

 

[BluegrassSeramas]

So Im assuming that the Sizzle is a Silkie bred to not be silkied, but to be the same breed with frizzled feathers... Ahhhhh.

I have read about the mixes but if the silkie gene is recessive, can it still show through when the different genetics of frizzled feathers are added? I always was under the impression that they were some sort of mix, and since Im pretty unfamiliar with Silkies, I assumed that there was some mixing of feather types. But you are saying if there is silkied feathering they are breeding it out to be totally frizzled?

Just checking! I learn on here every day!
Im off to look at the mixes now!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Silkie and frizzle are different characteristics that are not mutually exclusive. Kind of like one person can have hair that is curly & fine while another person has hair that is straight & fine and yet a third person has hair that is curly & coarse and another has hair that is straight & coarse.

A feather can be
- "smooth" (neither silkie nor frizzle)
- silkie not frizzled
- silkie & frizzled
- frizzled not silkie

The working standard for Sizzle is all silkie breed characteristics except for the feathering. The desired feathering is frizzled, not silkie.

 

[walkswithdog]

Bluegrass you and me is gonna be DEALING!!! There wouldn't be any Brown Reds or Lemon Blues in your group? Doesn't matter Frizzled bantams sell here like hotcakes. I'm just trying to get those colors into my sizzle pets project...

My real Show Sizzle project is the straight up BBS Sizzles. I have a LOVELY Splash Roo and a Blue and Black pair of hens.

My pet project has a DQ smooth male in blue and red, or lemon blue - or according to the gene folks maybe red and demelanized black but this week I got a good look and I think he's dark blue and laced for body feathering - his colors are still coming in and for a smooth he has tremendous feather.

And in the bator now are silkie/sizzle and a few silkie showgirl (how did that happen) eggs. I didn't get a single smooth hen. I got five boys, two girls in my one hatch and both girls being Sizzles. So adding silkies and more sizzles and hopefully SOME of those will actually BE pullets, to work with.

One step at a time. So I came across seramas as a way of bringing in goal colors that and they're gorgeous anyway. Sooooo.... silkie and sizzled seramas both appeal YUP.