sizzle, frizzle, and frazzle???

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Pics?

 

[trsturself]

A friend of mine took the sizzle so I don't have any recent pics but here she is around a week old.



And here is our frizzled silkie

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Cute!

Here's my little Sizzle cockerel, Early. Poor guy is super droopy in the heat

 

[chickencatcher1]

I love my sizzles I have one curly and a smooth hen. Just hatched little sizzle babies!

 

[ivyrash]

I understand you don't breed frizzle to frizzle but what about curly sizzle to curly sizzle? Do I understand correctly that you can breed a smooth sizzle to a curly sizzle and be ok? Does it matter what generation in all of this? I would assume the more the curly sizzle trait was bred in it would have an effect.

So much to learn, makes my head hurt!

I realize that people generally are looking for silkie type with sizzle feathering, is there a reason why? Why couldn't a person make a sizzled cochin?

 

[sonz77]

Hi, so would my little one be a sizzle then? I wasn't planning on getting her, but I couldn't resist!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

She looks alot like the one I put up a couple of posts above

 

[sonz77]

She does too!! I didn't see that pic when I posted!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I have a pullet, its the one aboves sister, that could be your chicks twin

 

[Vanessa Tate]

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Any Breed of chicken can have Frizzle feathers,  the most common are Cochins but there are Frizzled Polish, Rocks, and many others. 


Sizzles are Frizzled Cochin/ Silkie crosses.  Many of us are working to develop a breed of Sizzle that breed true.  All the characteristics of a Silkie but with barbed feathers, not Silkie Feathers.  There are Frizzled Silkies and they are not Sizzles.

This is a Sizzle

This photo is of a Sizzle on the left and a Frizzled Silkie on the right


As mentioned,  Frazzles are the result of breeding a frizzled bird to a frizzled bird.  The result is a bird with very brittle feathers or very few feathers at all there are often organ anomalies as well.

they are gorgeous