Silkie thread!

[Debbi]

Ok, never having dealt with the "fluffy" breeds before, will someone explain to me "Frizzle" and "Sizzle"??? I'm just getting into Fluff, so these terms are foreign to me!

 

[I-Have-Happy-Hens]

So who would you guys recemend for a really nice SQ black silkie pair?

Happy-Hens

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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If I am correct you have to have 2 lavender copies to get lavender. both parent birds have to have a copy of the actual lavender gene to get an actual lavender colored offspring. a lavender to another color with give you a "split" which carries 1 copy. breed these splits (1 gene carriers) together to a percentage of lavender chicks. your splash is a blue splash - I have never heard of a lavender splash, lavender is a very definitive solid and uniform color. Your splash has regular blue markings, definately no lavender there unless it is a split carrying the hidden Lav gene. sorry

A lavender splash is a bird who is both lavender and splash: lav/lav Bl/Bl. Appearance-wise very difficult to impossible to distinguish from a not-lavender splash.

Saying "blue splash" is redundant; the correct name for the colour/variety is splash.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Oh, lol! THat DH is a keeper! A deliberately chicken-enabling DH--you are blessed

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Frizzle is backwards & upwards curled feathers; in the US recognised in all breeds, and i is not A breed. In other countries it is someties listed as a specific breed--rather cochin-like.

A sizzle is a silkie in all features except feathering; sizzles have non-silkied, frizzled feathers.

 

[mshuey1]

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Can you post some pics of you babies I would love to see them. I too have some lavs running around here.

 

[mshuey1]

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Your Sizzlies r so glamourous!

 

[IA. jake]

I have a question for all you other silkie lover's. Are showgirls an APA bird?

 

[chickendales]

IA. jake :

I have a question for all you other silkie lover's. Are showgirls an APA bird?

when shown they are naked neck silkies
showgirls are aov​

 

[Debbi]

Thank you, Sonoran, for the frizzle/sizzle explaination! That cleared it up well.