The Sizzle Thread!

[Chris Herzog]

Hi, Sizzles only have barbed feathers. If it has silkie feathers, its a silkie. I don't know if everyone would agree with this, but to lessen confusion I'm going to say it: Sizzles are a variation of the Silkie, just like Silkied Serama are still Serama. It would just be quite a mouthful to say Smooth and frizzled barbed feathered silkies (or unsilkies

)..... They do have some cochin genetics in their background but alot of the new color variations, like the cuckoo silkie have other breed's genetics in them. Any silkies you produce in breeding sizzles are like regular silkies, the only difference is they might occasionally throw a chick with a single comb or other cochin characteristics. Silkies created in a Sizzle program should be sold as pets, I wouldn't keep them in your program. You breed to silkies when you want to improve the silkie traits in the chickens, so you'd want the best quality ones you can find. Hope this helps!

Ok, so I'm working on getting as many smooth and frizzled barbed feathered Sizzles that I can in every hatch. I also want all the Silkie traits less the Silkie feathering. I bread my Sizzles (all barbed frizzled feathered hens) to two Silkie roos for color and to try and get the correct number of toes on all the chicks, not all my Sizzle hens have the correct number of toes. I'm hoping to get at least two smooth barbed feathered roos out of all these chicks and a few barbed frizzled feathered hens to use for breeding.
Is this the correct road to be on to get my desired results? If I never got a Silkie feathered bird again I would be very happy.
Chris

 

[SierraView]

I sorta started a sizzle project not sure if I'm going to continue it though. I crossed a porcelain silkie hen with a lemon blue frizzle Cochin. The rooster didn't fit into any other breeding pens and the silkie hen was the only porcelain I had so she didn't really fit into any breeding pen so I pen the two together for fun to see when I got.

Here's the pair


I hatched around 12 - 15 that are between 3 to 6 weeks old. They are very cute I will post some pics later when I separate then from the brooder, they currently are with a group of around 50 silkie chicks.

 

[ladyfaeden]

[SIZE=10pt][COLOR=000000]Ok, so I'm working on getting as many smooth and frizzled barbed feathered Sizzles that I can in every hatch. I also want all the Silkie traits less the Silkie feathering. I bread my Sizzles (all barbed frizzled feathered hens) to two Silkie roos for color and to try and get the correct number of toes on all the chicks, not all my Sizzle hens have the correct number of toes. I'm hoping to get at least two smooth barbed feathered roos out of all these chicks and a few barbed frizzled feathered hens to use for breeding.[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt][COLOR=000000]Is this the correct road to be on to get my desired results? If I never got a Silkie feathered bird again I would be very happy.[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt][COLOR=000000]Chris[/COLOR][/SIZE]

Sounds like a good plan to me. It's very similar to my own.

 

[varanisblack]

OK so my wife Mary is the chicken person and I am the exotic animal person here,
When Mary got 6 "supposed" pullets "2 of which are roos" no big deal,
She then got 4 Bantoms 2 of unknown type 1 they said was a polish crested and a sizzle,
Well I am kind of an odd old bird my self, as soon as I saw all the toes and the punk rock look I had to be the one to name him/her!!
Just curious to hear your thoughts on this little guy/girl

Here is Dweezle Zappa,









Those funky toes!!!





Sorry the pics soo dark we had let them out thinking tropical storm Debby had passed and the sun was out, I had barely got out with the camera just to hear thunder and had to run outside to get everyone back in and took hurried pick in the process

 

[4hchickmama]

OK so my wife Mary is the chicken person and I am the exotic animal person here,
When Mary got 6 "supposed" pullets "2 of which are roos" no big deal,
She then got 4 Bantoms 2 of unknown type 1 they said was a polish crested and a sizzle,
Well I am kind of an odd old bird my self, as soon as I saw all the toes and the punk rock look I had to be the one to name him/her!!
Just curious to hear your thoughts on this little guy/girl

Here is Dweezle Zappa,









Those funky toes!!!





Sorry the pics soo dark we had let them out thinking tropical storm Debby had passed and the sun was out, I had barely got out with the camera just to hear thunder and had to run outside to get everyone back in and took hurried pick in the process

Dweezle looks like a sizzle to me...and a cute one at that!

 

[Erin~TheChickenLover]

Hello fellow sizzle lovers! I have a few sizzles. I have Pixie, Jazz, Izzy, and Hope.

They are mostly pets, but I am breeding for improvements. I need to get new pictures, but here are a few old ones.
This is Pixie, the momma. She has 5 toes but you can't tell by this picture. I like her style, she's tiny and looks like a little ruffle-y flower. I call her my "lil' chatter box" because she is a noisy little chicken. Unfortunately, my ornery rooster pecked her eye and so now she is blind in her left eye.

It's my understanding that the red in her comb and face is a fault? What do ya'll think about her? Please feel free to comment

This is one of Pixie's babies, Izzy. She's a black (lightly) mottled sizzle. Her comb is right, skin and legs fairly good, but she only has 4 toes on each foot and does not have a top hat. I plan on maybe crossing her with a silkie. Do ya'll think I would see improvements if I crossed her with a silkie?

This is another of Pixie's babies, Jazz, a black sizzle. Jazz's feathers have turned really curly and beautiful. He has 5 toes on each foot but doesn't have a top hat. I would like to cross him with a black silkie hen but, unfortunately, if he's a boy he might have to go.

This is another baby of Pixie's, Hope. She is a grey sizzle and a keeper. She's got the right comb, a top hat, black eyes, pretty curls, and fairly good skin and leg color. Her only problem is that she has 4 toes, not 5. I plan on crossing this one to either a black or a splash silkie. I would like to cross her with a lavender/self blue silkie, but I'm more than likely not going to be able to find her one.

 

[varanisblack]

Dweezle looks like a sizzle to me...and a cute one at that!

Yeah this is the friendliest of our bantoms and the only one I personaly picked out pullet or roo the grandkids will never let Dweezle go,
The biggest problem is keeping the grand kids out of the run and coop LOL

Is there anything speacial we need to know about or odd little pet? health concerns or special issues? Also is Dweezle of a good candidate for a possible future mate? My daughter and the grand kids keep wanting to steal him so they were told " If grandma breeds Dweezle everyone can have a chick"
If Mary dose breed this one we would want to try and keep from just a mut offspring and try to create quality young.

 

[Erin~TheChickenLover]

My young little sizzles are starting to feather out really well. Here are some pics
This is Izzy in the center with Hope's front end to the right. They are super cute!

I just love them to pieces.
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This is Jazz/Jasmin. I have to decide whether or not I'm going to give him up.

I'm pretty sure he's a boy.

 

[Erin~TheChickenLover]

Yeah this is the friendliest of our bantoms and the only one I personaly picked out pullet or roo the grandkids will never let Dweezle go,
The biggest problem is keeping the grand kids out of the run and coop LOL

Is there anything speacial we need to know about or odd little pet? health concerns or special issues? Also is Dweezle of a good candidate for a possible future mate? My daughter and the grand kids keep wanting to steal him so they were told " If grandma breeds Dweezle everyone can have a chick"
If Mary dose breed this one we would want to try and keep from just a mut offspring and try to create quality young.

Dweezle is a cutie! Personally, I would breed him/her to a silkie. The sizzles that you would get from that breeding would be quality sizzles (if the silkie were of good quality, that is). Sizzles are judged on the silkie standard so it makes since to breed Dweezle to a silkie. You want the offspring to have dark skin, dark eyes, 5 toes, a topknot, and probably something else that I am forgetting...

 

[varanisblack]

OK now Dweezle has all black except the bottom of his feet and his toes along with a white tip on his beak, if we did get a quality silkie with the correct coloration and features would this correct the little bit of white or is this little bit exceptible?

P.S. a couple more recent shots WOW is this little bugger growing and not afraid of the bug chickens either LOL,






Mind you of all our birds they are all Marys or for the grand kids and this is my only chicken LOL
The Guinies don't count they are tools for pest control

boy oh boy now she's getting me into chickens LOL

P.S. and ideas weather Cockerel or pullet??