sizzles!!!!!!!!! show them off, ask your questions, discuss

[floridamama]

Hi I found the thread. ok. I have a couple of babies that are 12 days old. Father is a Jet black Frizzle and mother is a Blue Silkie Hen and in the other pen is Roo Silkie Part. with Frizzled HENS ( white, black, and now Red) but the moms of the peeps out of the silkie roo's pen is the 2 white or the 1 black hen the others are not old enough just yet. I will try to get picks to post on here. So you can see their curled up feathers.

 

[nzpouter]

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She is a show bantam frizzle (frizzle is a breed of their own over here), I always call her colour light silver partridge, maybe another poster more in tune with genetic can break it down further...

 

[nzpouter]

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sizzle

frizzled cochin

frazzle

frizkie left, sizzle right

smooth sizzle chick, lacking foot feathering.

 

[walkswithdog]

Two smooth males, one birchen, one blue.

And some of the others, including a good fifth generation pair in splash and blue.

Some frizkies are cute - Anejo was ugly of course he was at the all ugly stage as well.

These two are the parents of my current group in the brooder, 3 frazzles, and a bunch of good sizzles and Sizzles, all in blue or splash. And I'm growing both silkies and birchen bantam cochins to continue to work all four colors, BBS and Birchens.

This is the Birchen Smooth Roo as an adult. Despite his faults (red face, single comb) the potential for spectacular is obvious.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

He's not birchen; brown red, perhaps. (Brown red is genetically the same as birchen with gold replacing the silver in birchen)

 

[walkswithdog]

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Sorry - you are correct gold birchen or brown red. Though bred to CO and silver he throws a nice silver birchen. I'm shooting for the gold birchens mostly, with silvers as they happen depending on mate and working for a collection of both eventually. That pattern in gold or silver just makes my heart sing, he looks like fireworks moving.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Sorry - you are correct gold birchen or brown red. Though bred to CO and silver he throws a nice silver birchen. I'm shooting for the gold birchens mostly, with silvers as they happen depending on mate and working for a collection of both eventually. That pattern in gold or silver just makes my heart sing, he looks like fireworks moving.

CO and silver? Not sure what you mean?

If he is split for silver, his daughters would be silver, and sons would be split if bred with a gold carrying hen or silver if bred with a silver carrying hen.

 

[walkswithdog]

Bred to a columbian hen he produced silver birchen. I'll end up with splits and silvers in my first generation. But I'll probably keep working toward golds, it's just lovely, and splits look watered down. And better crests, combs and faces obviously. Though his foot feather is spectacular.

 

[evonne]

*scratches head, crosses eyes and tried again to understand what y'all just said*

lol.. the whole split think is still over my head.. lol... i'll catch it one of these days on a rebound bounce..

awsome pictures though...

someone was giving away a buff silkie on craig's list today... said they thought it was a roo becasue it tried to crow once.. lol.. but apparently it's been in house rehab because the other chickens started picking on it.. ?? who knows, but my hubby emailed and i never got a call... oh well....

i got the 2 boys and the 3 girls together in one pen now... i will seperate into colors once the girls start laying.. which hopefully will be soon.. the boys went right for them... so i assume that means they're close....

once i get some extra $$ i'll post on craigs list looking for local silkies in the colors i want.... the PO doesn't like me hatching chicks.. they apparently think i need to make eggdrop soup and blown egg ornaments....

what will i get if i put a buff or a partridge silkie with my red frazzle?? anything good? or just a hopefully cute mess??

 

[walkswithdog]

Split is short for a bird whose color genetics - in this case we're talking about gold or silver or a bird that carries both gold AND silver genes - that bird is SPLIT gened. And phenotypical (what it looks like) that bird will have sort of muddled, washed out silver and gold feathering, where a Gold bird would have the true golds, and a Silver would have good clean silver.

It's a bit of problem in the chicken world that Brown Red is the designation for Gold Birchen, in some breeds, and other names in other breeds, with the one word - BIRCHEN usually implying a Silver Birchen bird. But genetics can throw more curves - the bird I showed is a demelanized Brown Red (Gold Birchen) which is why where he should be black he looks Gray or Blue. He throws Split birchen and silver birch blacks. So he's black, with a demelanizer of some sort.

There are many common splits, split for birchen, splits for black/lavendar is common in someone working with lavendar. In some colors it shows, in others it's hidden and only test breeding shows the presence of the hidden or split gene.