The Sizzle Thread!

[Theresa sla]

So I have another quick question. I have a black sizzle rooster ( that looks like a pinecone) and a kahki sizzle rooster ( that looks like a silkie). I also have 4 cochin hens as well as some cochin/silkie mixes. I know that I can put my mixes (smooth feathered of course) in with my sizzle boys, but what about my cochin girls? What would I get if I put them in with my sizzle roosters? Or would that be a big project?

If it was me I would like to see the khaki silkie feathered sizzled roo, with the strait forward Cochin girls. And the the black roo that looks like a pine cone with your silkie mix hens.
It should balance your groups out that way.
the main idea with a good sizzle (silkie-frizzle cross) is a to have it look like a silkie- black skin, five toes, crest, ext. but with frizzle feathered. Smooth, rough (frizzled), silkie and frizzled silkies are all posible outcomes and all considered excepted parts of the sizzle family. Smooth are a very important part of improving your birds, remembering that you shouldn't mate a friz with a friz. But... It has been thought that the smooth offspring that has frizzle in the family tree, Will improve your chances of getting frizzled offspring when mated back to frizzled.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Cool!!!
Would love to see more picture when the little cuties start showing curls

They won't get frizzled, but they may have silkie feathering. Both mom and dad are smooth sizzles, half silkie, half ? lol

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

If it was me I would like to see the khaki silkie feathered sizzled roo, with the strait forward Cochin girls. And the the black roo that looks like a pine cone with your silkie mix hens.
It should balance your groups out that way.
the main idea with a good sizzle (silkie-frizzle cross) is a to have it look like a silkie- black skin, five toes, crest, ext. but with frizzle feathered. Smooth, rough (frizzled), silkie and frizzled silkies are all posible outcomes and all considered excepted parts of the sizzle family. Smooth are a very important part of improving your birds, remembering that you shouldn't mate a friz with a friz. But... It has been thought that the smooth offspring that has frizzle in the family tree, Will improve your chances of getting frizzled offspring when mated back to frizzled.

Thank you. Looks like we will be moving some chickens around.

 

[AriRashkae]

How would one go about starting a line of Sizzles? I have one black & silver Silkie rooster (who doesn't get enough girls, in his opinion) but I'm not sure if I should try my luck with looking for someone who already has Sizzles in a reasonable area, or just grab some Frizzle hens and lock them in the same coop.

 

[moomoodiddy]

either way

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

What do you all think of this pullet? I've decided to hold onto her. I don't think she's too bad considering she came from a Cochin (frazzled)/Silkie cross. I have 8 more chicks from the same pair growing out, and I'm hoping for one or two more pullets to go with her. She's only about 4 months old (I think, I've done alot of hatching this year) and still has lots of pin feathers in her crest. I'm hoping her cushion will fill in a bit more too

 

[ihavechickens2]

Howfunkeyisyourchicken, I think she looks ok. I'm not a expert, but I would like to see more crest, and more type. How is her skin color and toe spacing? What are you breading her back to?

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I agree, she's not great, but I think she's an ok start. I'd like to see more crest and better type as well. She's got super dark skin. Her legs and feet and very heavily feathered, even her extra toes. On one foot, her toe spacing is good, a nice V. On the other, not so great. The extra toes are there, but they sort of sit beside each other.
I plan to breed her back to a Silkie. I'm currently rooster-less right now though I have a black I'm hoping is a boy, but its not looking good. I haven't had much luck hatching out boys this year, lots of pullets and a smattering of eh looking boys

 

[trsturself]

Too bad you don't live near us. we have a sizzle roo that we'd sell you.

 

[ihavechickens2]

I agree, she's not great, but I think she's an ok start. I'd like to see more crest and better type as well. She's got super dark skin. Her legs and feet and very heavily feathered, even her extra toes. On one foot, her toe spacing is good, a nice V. On the other, not so great. The extra toes are there, but they sort of sit beside each other.
I plan to breed her back to a Silkie. I'm currently rooster-less right now though

I have a black I'm hoping is a boy, but its not looking good. I haven't had much luck hatching out boys this year, lots of pullets and a smattering of eh looking boys

it seems like I'm having the opposite effect, I'm hatching nothing but roos. only a few will be good enough to keep though.