The Sizzle Thread!

[4hchickmama]

Maybe showing what a novice I am, here..... Do sizzles fly?

Mine do not. Neither silkies or cochins are really fliers. My cochin can get about 1-2ft off the ground to get up on a roost, but my silkies and my sizzles will not....not even slightly.

 

[hoppy]

the roos start getting crests that point backwards to the butt, pullets generally are not like this.

Hoppy, If they are boys how can you tell at 8 weeks?

 

[gcorso33]

Im new to sizzles this young one is 6 months od still cant figure out its sex. Any guesses are appreciated, doesn't have much comb but is outgoing.

 

[appps]

I'm far from an expert but by 6 months should be almost crowing or laying . If its not crowing yet I'd be surprised if it was a boy. Mine started at 4 months.

Mine also has developed a lot more masculine feathers, long slim ones on its neck and longer ones in the tail. Hard to tell from photo but doesn't seem to have those boy feathers.

But like I said I'm only a novice

 

[GrandRapidsGirl]

Another thing. Do only male sizzles have wattles? My black (roo?) that I posted a few pages back has really big wattles now. None of the other 3 have wattles at all. Does that mean he is a boy and the others are girls?

 

[appps]

Nope, my laying hen has wattles.

 

[hoppy]

I had a chick hatch with waddles, so no, it's not an indicator of sex.

Another thing. Do only male sizzles have wattles? My black (roo?) that I posted a few pages back has really big wattles now. None of the other 3 have wattles at all. Does that mean he is a boy and the others are girls?

 

[varanisblack]

Well unfortunately we are having a do over with Marys sizzle program.
We lost our blue splash and white girls to a hawk and my blue splash roo had white on the feet so we replaced him with another young roo.
As it sits Mary has 2 pairs.
#1 with a black silkie roo and a blue splash sizzle hen.





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#2 a partrige sizzle roo with a white silkie hen.






What are her possible outcomes from these pairings?
We knew the splash to splash outcome would be black, blue and blue splash the splash to white would have been, splahs and white we belive.
But the new color combos we are unsure of.
Thanks Mary and Scott Ras.

 

[ket806]

My sizzle roo has a small spiky black comb, not a walnut one. Does that mean he is not good for breeding?

No he would not be good for breeding you want your sizzles to outcome to silkie standards

 

[ket806]

Well unfortunately we are having a do over with Marys sizzle program. We lost our blue splash and white girls to a hawk and my blue splash roo had white on the feet so we replaced him with another young roo. As it sits Mary has 2 pairs. #1 with a black silkie roo and a blue splash sizzle hen. . #2 a partrige sizzle roo with a white silkie hen. What are her possible outcomes from these pairings? We knew the splash to splash outcome would be black, blue and blue splash the splash to white would have been, splahs and white we belive. But the new color combos we are unsure of. Thanks Mary and Scott Ras.

IMO it's hard to know the outcome bacause the outcome can also result to what the parents of your breeders were and so on. I am not familiar with partridge:/ I do know many colors are possible though with your combos. Though I am not an expert