The Sizzle Thread!

[K Epp]

Time for the Happy Dance...

My Sizzle and frizzle girls are both laying.

 

[why do birds]

Our babies are 11 weeks! Fredo, pic on top, crowed and he has the cutest voice! He crows at 6:15 am. Chicken nugget, bottom pic clucks, no crows, maybe we got a hen???? They're both cuddlers, but Fredo is more of a cuddler. He was hatched with the bad legs and we did PT every couple hours for a few days, until he was able to walk. He's very bonded with us. They say put a chicken on it's back, if it tries to right itself, it's a rooster, but Fredo will fall asleep upside down in our lap if we let him! So much for that theory. Fredo smooth sizzle, Chicken Nugget frizzle sizzle. They don't stay on newspaper long, we were changing their kitchen "coop". They watch us cook...hahaha!

 

[1 Critter Camp]

Our babies are 11 weeks! Fredo, pic on top, crowed and he has the cutest voice! He crows at 6:15 am. Chicken nugget, bottom pic clucks, no crows, maybe we got a hen???? They're both cuddlers, but Fredo is more of a cuddler. He was hatched with the bad legs and we did PT every couple hours for a few days, until he was able to walk. He's very bonded with us. They say put a chicken on it's back, if it tries to right itself, it's a rooster, but Fredo will fall asleep upside down in our lap if we let him! So much for that theory. Fredo smooth sizzle, Chicken Nugget frizzle sizzle. They don't stay on newspaper long, we were changing their kitchen "coop". They watch us cook...hahaha!

Beautiful fellows!!

 

[Missyktsm]

Okay, I have a question...do smooth Sizzles bread together breed true? What do you get from breeding them?

 

[why do birds]

Okay, I have a question...do smooth Sizzles bread together breed true? What do you get from breeding them?

I would think that since the smooth sizzles are 1/2 silkie, if you do the punnet square, the breed should produce 25% pure smooth genes, 50% hybrid gene (1 gene smooth, 1 gene silkie), and 25% silkie.

 

[ihavechickens2]

Okay, I have a question...do smooth Sizzles bread together breed true? What do you get from breeding them?

When you breed sizzles together, you will get sizzles and silkies. It's a 50/50 ratio if breeding back to a silkie,.

 

[1 Critter Camp]

When you breed sizzles together, you will get sizzles and silkies. It's a 50/50 ratio if breeding back to a silkie,.

If a chick from a sizzle X silkie comes out to be a silkie, it will for sure carry sizzle gene, correct? I have a silkie that just hatched but it was labeled a sizzle... so I was wondering if I could breed it with a sizzle, I should have a higher hatch rate of sizzles? I wonder if that is correct?

 

[sonderah]

Just got a new Silkie (pullet I hope) to go with my other Silkie to breed with my Frizzle! He says they r 5-7 months old, but idk. Couldn't u tell a male pretty easy by then? He said he doesn't know how to tell the difference, so I read some and did the best I could. Lol She is very pretty though!

 

[ihavechickens2]

If a chick from a sizzle X silkie comes out to be a silkie, it will for sure carry sizzle gene, correct?  I have a silkie that just hatched but it was labeled a sizzle... so I was wondering if I could breed it with a sizzle, I should have a higher hatch rate of sizzles? I wonder if that is correct?

Sizzles are "silkies" with normal feathers ( either frizzled or smooth) so when you breed them together you will get one or the other(silkie or sizzle). I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure there isn't a gene for being sizzles or not. Which I have heard people say that if you keep breeding back to frizzled birds you will increase the amount of frizzled offspring. Does this help any???

 

[1 Critter Camp]

Sizzles are "silkies" with normal feathers ( either frizzled or smooth) so when you breed them together you will get one or the other(silkie or sizzle). I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure there isn't a gene for being sizzles or not. Which I have heard people say that if you keep breeding back to frizzled birds you will increase the amount of frizzled offspring. Does this help any???

Yes, thanks for your info. I thought that a sizzle was a silkie with frizzled feathers. Then you throw in that a sizzle can have smooth feathers. Any breed can have a frizzle gene so calling a silkie with frizzled feathers was a "sizzle"... I have read so much I can't keep all of the zzz's straight! LOL

I'm trying to breed frizzled silkies.

What a fun hobby!