The Sizzle Thread!

[hoppy]

I have a question regarding sizzles. I have a smooth feathered bird the parents are a curly feathered silkie type and the dad was a silkie. I am wanting to make more curly feathered birds. is this smooth bird of any use in the breeding program. my thought is no since it is smooth but maybe it's yes since it has 5 toes, huge head puff and silkie type comb and then cross this with my curlies.
of course at one year, it's not crowed or layed an egg. doesn't mate with anyone and picks fights with girls by grabbing their heads and gets beat up by the boys (yes i am great at sexing birds aren't I?)

 

[Disco Hen]

Just got some pics of my curly sizzle babies:

CUTE!!!!!

Wow that's a ton of info....thanks fo posting that!

Here is a pic of my first hatch of my own Sizzle eggs. I don't know if my Sizzles are F1's, F2's or what. So to start, I ended up useing 2 Silkie roos over my Sizzle hens. I plan on growing all my chicks out looking for 2 Smooth fethered roos and a few more frizzled feathered hens to use as breeders for next year.

Pen 1 is a dark buff Silkie roo over a buff Sizzle hen and 2 partridge Sizzle hens.
Pen 2 is a blue/black splashed Silkie roo over 2 black Sizzle hens.


What colors are you all seeing here?

Thanks for looking,
Chris

I'm not very good with colors, all I can say is it looks like you have a few black ones, and a coulp grey ones, maybe a white one and some partridge, very nice chicks!!!

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Thanks!! In all I'm setting 60 eggs from the combos above. These chicks were from the first hatch the next one goes into lock-down on Sunday. Then just for fun, I went and swapped the two roos over the weekend. In a couple weeks I'll collect a few more eggs from the girls and see what I get from this new combo.

Next year is going to be a lot of fun!!!!

Chris

Some more pics of my hens....

Nice looking sizzles!

I wish the sun had not glared on his face. He is looking over his shoulder.

Hes cute!

I have a question regarding sizzles. I have a smooth feathered bird the parents are a curly feathered silkie type and the dad was a silkie. I am wanting to make more curly feathered birds. is this smooth bird of any use in the breeding program. my thought is no since it is smooth but maybe it's yes since it has 5 toes, huge head puff and silkie type comb and then cross this with my curlies.
of course at one year, it's not crowed or layed an egg. doesn't mate with anyone and picks fights with girls by grabbing their heads and gets beat up by the boys (yes i am great at sexing birds aren't I?)

It would purduce some curly feathered birds, if it has a curly feathered parent. Because it has a curly feathered allele.

 

[Chris Herzog]

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I have a question regarding sizzles. I have a smooth feathered bird the parents are a curly feathered silkie type and the dad was a silkie. I am wanting to make more curly feathered birds. is this smooth bird of any use in the breeding program. my thought is no since it is smooth but maybe it's yes since it has 5 toes, huge head puff and silkie type comb and then cross this with my curlies.
of course at one year, it's not crowed or layed an egg. doesn't mate with anyone and picks fights with girls by grabbing their heads and gets beat up by the boys (yes i am great at sexing birds aren't I?)

He is what I am hoping to get from all the eggs that I am hatching out now. Actually I would like 2 roos that look like yours to replace the two Silkie roos that I am using now.
I may have this wrong but my understanding is this…. Maybe someone with more experience can elaborate a little more on this.
A normal Silkie and a curly feathered Sizzle will produce 50 / 50, 50% Silkie feathered Sizzles / 50% curly feathered Sizzles.

A smooth feathered Sizzle like your boy here and a curly feathered Sizzle will produce 75 / 25, 75% curly feathered Sizzles / 25% smooth feathered Sizzles.

Let me add that that is a good looking bird and I wished that I owned him!

Chris

 

[Disco Hen]

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He is what I am hoping to get from all the eggs that I am hatching out now. Actually I would like 2 roos that look like yours to replace the two Silkie roos that I am using now.
I may have this wrong but my understanding is this…. Maybe someone with more experience can elaborate a little more on this.
A normal Silkie and a curly feathered Sizzle will produce 50 / 50, 50% Silkie feathered Sizzles / 50% curly feathered Sizzles.

A smooth feathered Sizzle like your boy here and a curly feathered Sizzle will produce 75 / 25, 75% curly feathered Sizzles / 25% smooth feathered Sizzles.

Chris

Well, you are partly correct, if you breed him with a curly feathered sizzle you will get 75% curly babies, if you breed him to another smooth one that had a cur;y feathered parent you will get 50% curly chicks, if you breed him to a smooth with no curly genetics, then you will get 25% curly feathers.

 

[Chris Herzog]

Well, you are partly correct, if you breed him with a curly feathered sizzle you will get 75% curly babies, if you breed him to another smooth one that had a cur;y feathered parent you will get 50% curly chicks, if you breed him to a smooth with no curly genetics, then you will get 25% curly feathers.

Thanks for the reply.....I knew that I had to be close anyway!

For my own flock I am only keeping curly feathered Sizzle hens with the correct number of toes. I want my 2 males to be smooth feathered Sizzles with the correct number of toes to get the 75/25% hatch rate since that’s what most people around me want… the curly feathered Sizzles. I basically have been giving all the other birds that I hatch away as mutts.

Chris

 

[Disco Hen]

Thanks for the reply.....I knew that I had to be close anyway!

For my own flock I am only keeping curly feathered Sizzle hens with the correct number of toes. I want my 2 males to be smooth feathered Sizzles with the correct number of toes to get the 75/25% hatch rate since that’s what most people around me want… the curly feathered Sizzles. I basically have been giving all the other birds that I hatch away as mutts.

Chris

No problem, hope all goes well with your flock!

 

[hoppy]

Well, you are partly correct, if you breed him with a curly feathered sizzle you will get 75% curly babies, if you breed him to another smooth one that had a cur;y feathered parent you will get 50% curly chicks, if you breed him to a smooth with no curly genetics, then you will get 25% curly feathers.

what I have been getting is 25% smooths, 25% silkie feathered, 25% curly feathered and 25% curlies that change to a more kinky silkie type feathering. this is one of the smooths.

 

[3ChickensinNC]

New to sizzles. I have a lot to learn, so I need to subscribe to this thread so I can find it and read it all.

 

[ladyfaeden]

Quote: I'm assuming by "Curly feathered silkie type" you mean that the mom was a barbed (normal) feathered curly sizzle, as I believe you can't get barbed feathers out of two silkie feathered chickens. The chicken above is carrying genes for barbed and silkie feathers. The percentages of the babies feathering depend totally on what you breed it to. If the mate is homozygous for barbed feathers (carries two genes for barbed feathers), the babies will all have barbed feathers. If the mate is homozyogous for frizzle (also known as a frazzle, they tend to be a bit of a mess), all the babies will have curly feathers. If the mate has only one gene for frizzle, half the babies will be curly, half smooth. If the mate has only one gene for barbed feathers, and one gene for silkie, you will get 25% silkies, 75 % barbed feathers-aka sizzles.

The bird is beautiful. I would use her (?) in a heatbeat. You need smooth feathered birds in a sizzle breeding program, otherwise you will end up with a percentage of frazzles. I personally love the smooth birds. You can't see some of the patterns in the sizzles very well on the curly ones...although when you are that cute, you don't need them

 

[Disco Hen]

Hey do any of you want to enter you chickens in my sizzle contest?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/679813/sizzle-contest-ends-july-30th