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Okay, so my understanding now of sizzle is a silkie feathering gene crossed with a frizzle gene which makes the feather Somewhat silkied but also curled out. The chicks here do appear to have some kind of possible silkie gene in the feathers but they are not curling outwards. I thought they...

Here are some marked photos to make the chicks in question a little more clear to anyone else who pulls up this thread. Plus a photo with the exact birds that were used as breeders for these two clutches of chicks. They were two separate hatches, only one of the older chicks is shown in photos...

I had read something different I think. Which had also said that the term "frizzle" is both a feather type and/or a breed? Which that says it is only a feather type? On these chicks in particular though - I'm not sure where a silkie gene would of come from. And their feathers do not curl out...

But I did think frizzle to frizzle was called "frazzle" is that wrong or are those words interchangeable? Frazzle/sizzle?

These are the parents

I don't think that is possible with these chicks she didn't have a frizzled rooster. The rooster was a black mottled smooth feathered Cochin

I guess what I'm wondering is if that feather type can come from a smooth to smooth Cochin or a smooth to frizzle Cochin? Does that mean that they are not full Cochin?

They were breed Cochin to Cochin?

I have a lot of Cochin Bantams that I knew had the possibility of being smooth or frizzled. I can definitely tell who is frizzle and who is smooth, but there are a couple in the mix that I thought were frizzle but now I'm not so sure. Does anyone know if these are actually frizzle or smooth or...