Sizzle vs Frizzle pictures please, I don't see the difference...

[KellyHM]

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It looks like you have frizzled Silkies. Frizzle is just a gene that can be in any breed, which makes the feathers curl towards the head. Most people think of "Frizzles" as being Cochins, but you can have a frizzled anything. A Sizzle is a cross between a Silkie and a Cochin, with smooth (not silkied) feathers, but all other Silkie traits and they can be frizzled or not.

ETA: The frizzling effect is harder to see on birds with silkied feathers, which is probably why it doesn't seem that definitive to you.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Klaudia! They are very cute! Are they frizzled? I can tell they have silkie feathering.
They don't look like Frizzles or Sizzles.
They look like a cross (not first generation) of Cochin and Silkie, but hard to say what.
You could get chicks that *look* like those from {(Cochin x Silkie) X (Cochin x Silkie)}.
I'd just call them silkie feathered crosses.

Lisa

 

[secuono]

I think the partridge was said to be frizzle and the white a sizzle, but I have no clue...lol. They are cute either way!

 

[nzpouter]

Frizzle is a dominant gene expressed by curling of the feathers on a chicken...

on your last pic, you have a white chicken with normal feathers... now if you can pic the feathers curled, you got a sizzle...

the other white one is a frizzled silkie (frizkie),

people don't usually breed 2 chickens with F gene together as a chicken with F/F gene (25% of the offsprings) will have brittle feathers and can look quite horrible in summer....
There's more info in the breed pages about F/F, frazzle, curlies, etc...

 

[hoppy]

there are also birds that are silkie bred to sizzle (silkie type curled feathers) and if the sizzle has one set of the curled feather gene, not all the offspring will have frizzled feathers or carry the gene.
so you could get a "silkie" from that cross.

 

[secuono]

Thanks everyone!

 

[feather leg farms]

Blue Sizzle Cockerel:

 

[speakup4kids]

Now I'm totally confused! I was sold two birds and was told one was a smooth sizzle and one was a curly sizzle. Apparently mating two frizzled sizzles or curly sizzles together would be a big mistake so I got these two on the off chance that one would be of each sex and they could mate. Well they are both pullets so that didn't work out but I'm totally lost on what the heck I fell for!

I really love them both but am apparently a sucker

My frizzle or curly sizzle

My "smooth" sizzle

 

[TrystInn]

speakup4kids,

The first one is a Frizzle. I can't quite tell what the breed of the chicken is, almost looks Polish. Its only a Sizzle if its a Frizzled Silkie.

The second one is a regular feathered bird. It may well have hatched from a Frizzle/Smooth pairing, and likely caries the gene for Frizzle, but it is not itself a Frizzle. There is no such thing as a "smooth Frizzle". You either have frizzled feathers or you don't. Carrying the gene doesn't guarantee Frizzle offspring.

If you breed two Frizzled birds together, you may get what's called a Frazzle - whose feathers are so delicate they will break and you'll likely end up with a poor, naked bird.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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And most folks complain when a bird turns out to be male

Should only call the bird "curly" if it is OVERYLY frizzled as a result of having two copies of the frizzle gene.

Non-frizzle feathered birds are useful in breeding frizzled birds as two copies of the gene is usually considered to be a not-good thing.