The Sizzle Thread!

[silkiemomma42]

Thank you so much for your insight! Both hoppy and country. I'm very excited to work with these birds. The rest of my stock is silkie. Some blues. Some blacks and now these two paints. Would the 2nd one then since it is frizzled be a frizzled silkie then? So possibly 2 frizzled silkies and 3 sizzles. If I'm not mistaken I have to be careful not to breed sizzle to sizzle, but frizzled to sizzle is ok? As well as sizzle to silkie and frizzled to silkie are ok. I just want to make sure I get this right. Depending upon gender I may be rehoming some of these birds.

 

[moomoodiddy]

wait.... what is the diffrrence between frizzled and silkied?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

wait.... what is the diffrrence between frizzled and silkied?

feathers that are curled backwards and feathers that lack the barbicels that hold each strand of the webbing together.

It is kind of like having curly hair does not mean that it is or is not fine, or having coarse hair does not mean it is curly versus straight. Two entirely separate attributes.

 

[country]

Thank you so much for your insight! Both hippy and country. I'm very excited to work with these birds. The rest of my stock is silkie. Some blues. Some blacks and now these two paints. Would the 2nd one then since it is frizzled be a frizzled silkie then? So possibly 2 frizzled silkies and 3 sizzles. If I'm not mistaken I have to be careful not to breed sizzle to sizzle, but frizzled to sizzle is ok? As well as sizzle to silkie and frizzled to silkie are ok. I just want to make sure I get this right. Depending upon gender I may be rehoming some of these birds.

No, frizzled to sizzle is still doubling up on the frizzle gene. Just remember - NO curly to curly. Doesn't make any difference if it's a curly Sizzle, a frizzled Silkie, a frizzled Cochin, etc, etc. Curly + curly = bad but curly + smooth = good.

 

[country]

Good morning!
Can anyone suggest a Hatchery to buy Frizzles from? I have 2 silkie hens and a silkie rooster but would like to expand. Love all the adorable pics!! Thank you for any info

Are you talking frizzles or Sizzles? There are several breeds of chickens that are available as frizzle varieties. Frizzled Polands & frizzled Cochins are the most common. They are just regular breeds with feathers curled backwards. Sizzles are quite different and, as far as I know, they are not offered by any hatcheries. You'll have to buy chicks or hatching eggs from a Sizzle breeder or start breeding your own. I explain a bit more about Sizzles & have pics of both rough & smooth on my blogsite at http://californiacountryranch.blogspot.com/ Click on Sizzle chickens.

 

[JacqueOCS]

Hi!
I bought this little one at TS on Friday. Might it be a Frizzle or Sizzle? Sorry, I'm new to this & trying to learn. Thank you for any info!

 

[moomoodiddy]

feathers that are curled backwards and feathers that lack the barbicels that hold each strand of the webbing together.

It is kind of like having curly hair does not mean that it is or is not fine, or having coarse hair does not mean it is curly versus straight.  Two entirely separate attributes.

wait i thought yall were talkin bout types of sizzles yall were talkin bout types of feathers..... right?

 

[silkiemomma42]

No, frizzled to sizzle is still doubling up on the frizzle gene. Just remember - NO curly to curly. Doesn't make any difference if it's a curly Sizzle, a frizzled Silkie, a frizzled Cochin, etc, etc. Curly + curly = bad but curly + smooth = good.

ok, I get it now. No texture to texture regardless of what the textures feathered bird is technically called. So any of these frizzly sizzly guys can be bred to my regular ole silkies. Thank you so much. My chicken breeding knowledge is in infancy. I learn something new everyday.

 

[Gracie9205]

wait i thought yall were talkin bout types of sizzles yall were talkin bout types of feathers..... right?

I pulled all these pics off of google:

A sizzle has curly barbed feathers like this bird



A smooth sizzle (what you ideally want to cross with anything curly) looks like a silkie with regular chicken feathers (smooth barbed).




A frizzle silkie has the curly gene, but the feathers are not barbed. Similar to the bird on the right of this picture:




When breeding a silkie to a sizzle, you can get all feather types shown above including the regular silkie feathering. Ideally you would like to breed smooth sizzle to sizzle to get the highest percentage of true sizzles from your hatch.

Hope this clears up any confusion!

Again, these are not my pictures, just stuff I found on google!

 

[moomoodiddy]

k thanx!!!! ugh that stinks i thought the smooth were useless there was a smooth at tsc for sale!