The Sizzle Thread!

[PaintedFeathers]

Oh my, they are soo pretty! Very nice! Do you name them? We called the first one "chicken nugget" because he's a little fluff ball running around the incubator but so tiny and silly! The next sizzle is pipping now, has a little zip line

started.
Thanks for posting the pics! Awesome!

I try to only name the ones i'm going to keep =) I don't want to get attached to any that i'm supposed to be selling lol

 

[why do birds]

This one hatched, a sizzle. Chicken Nugget had to help him, He's been hanging out like this for several hours. I removed Chicken Nugget because he was pecking this guy's eyeball. Chicken Nugget's doing great in a brooder box and loves to be held. The one on the side is a beautiful black silkie (100% silkie). That one all but jumped out of the shell and started walking around. This other one who just sits in the egg carton, idk, he seems a bit slow. Was thinking of calling him Fredo, from the Godfather, because his sibling did Everything for him, and then tried to kill him....LOL.

 

[ksfnewtobirds]

Coudn't wait to get the frizzled hens in with the new silkie roo....was planning on dividing up the hens and havin the two flocks going but all the sudden the girls started laying like crazy so after a few days of collecting eggs and getting the bator set I have 19 eggs set. So all will be sired by red frizzle roo and the hens include a red smooth frizzle, a white silkie, a splash sizzle curly, a black curly frizzle and a hen I hatched last year that is a cochin/americana bantam. Can't wait to mid January to hatch....
Chillin with my peeps...what are the genetics or odds with the friz roo and sizzle....both are curly but the roo has poor curl. I believe at least 5 of the eggs I set are from her... Oh how I would just love a redish white sizzle....what colors are more dominant? Thanks

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Coudn't wait to get the curly hens in with the new silkie roo....was planning on dividing up the hens and havin the two flocks going but all the sudden the girls started laying like crazy so after a few days of collecting eggs and getting the bator set I have 19 eggs set. So all will be sired by red frizzle roo and the hens include a red smooth frizzle, a white silkie, a splash sizzle curly, a black curly frizzle and a hen I hatched last year that is a cochin/americana bantam. Can't wait to mid January to hatch....
Chillin with my peeps...what are the genetics or odds with the friz roo and sizzle....both are curly but the roo has poor curl. I believe at least 5 of the eggs I set are from her... Oh how I would just love a redish white sizzle....what colors are more dominant? Thanks

I wouldn't incubate those eggs. You can NOT breed a frizzled, or "curly", bird to a frizzled bird. You CAN breed a smooth sizzle to a frizzled Sizzle but not a frizzle to frizzle. You will end up with very sickly and brittle chicks with feathers that break when you touch them and they will always be bald and in pain.

If you want to breed, put your frizzled roo with smooth and silkie girls and your silkie roo with frizzled girls. Just make sure the silkies aren't frizzled silkies.

 

[ksfnewtobirds]

Oh and what about the white silkie hen and red friz roo. I am hoping I get something from this hatch that I would want to keep breeding this summer. Maybe phase out the Fred Frizzled red roo.... I will try to upload a picture of him he has like a lion mane thing going and not the best perm...

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Oh and what about the white silkie hen and red friz roo. I am hoping I get something from this hatch that I would want to keep breeding this summer. Maybe phase out the Fred Frizzled red roo.... I will try to upload a picture of him he has like a lion mane thing going and not the best perm...

He's cute, you can breed him to the silkie hen, you won't end up with white/red splashed chicks though lol! White hides other colors so no telling what you will get. You could end up getting all different colored chicks or you could get all the same color. It doesn't matter whether he has a lot of curls or only a few but if he is carrying the frizzled gene in any form he can't be bred to other frizzles. Supposedly, breeding frizzled sizzles to smooth sizzles can get you better frizzling on your frizzles.

 

[ksfnewtobirds]

Here is Ashes my favorite sizzle....course I only have 2 the other one is smooth...


here is the whole gang of banty cuteness! The black hen far left is one I hatched last year she is cochin/americana and I have 5 green eggs of hers in the bator now...we will see if any of them frizzle.

 

[ksfnewtobirds]

Painted feathers thanks for comments...do you see what I mean about the roo not being very frizzled...does it matter genetically how curly the feathers are? Like did this roo not get full on Frizzle genes? Most of the frizzle I saw prior to ordering mine were much more curly. The black hen I kept has a lot better curl but she is tiny and I don't believe she has ever laid an egg.. I was dissapointed in the frizzles which is why I love my sizzle so much and want more of those...

 

[ksfnewtobirds]

I have a smooth sizzle but she is on recovery from being broody and doing a little molt so she is not laying right now. I understand about the brittle feather thing and not breeding curly to curly I was just hoping my fred wasn't true curled. The cutie ashes will go in with mr silkie soon as it is warmer out...what do you do with frizzled silkies are they shown?

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Painted feathers thanks for comments...do you see what I mean about the roo not being very curly...does it matter genetically how curly the feathers are? Like did this roo not get full on Frizzle genes? Most of the frizzle I saw prior to ordering mine were much more curly. The black hen I kept has a lot better curl but she is tiny and I don't believe she has ever laid an egg.. I was dissapointed in the frizzles which is why I love my sizzle so much and want more of those...

no I mentioned that in my last post. It doesn't matter how much frizzling they have if they have it they have it. Breeding him to a smooth sizzle may produce more curls on the chicks. If you really like the look of the frizzled sizzles you should get a normal silkie roo and get all frizzled hens. Then you can have a bunch more frizzles. With only a frizzled roo you can't have any frizzled hens.