Posts by Black Cochin Bantams

Minnesota has several good cochin LF breeders. Duane Urch ?Urich and Roland Doeer have some very good LF Cochins.

Quote: Originally Posted by mjgigax  Sorry to hear that. What made her a favorite? She sure was beautiful.  She was certainly not my first show bird but the 1st that I had bred, hatched, raised, and won...

My oldest and favorite Cochin died yesterday. She was 6 and will be missed. She was hatched here. Craig

I try to hatch without assisting fertility on my 1st test hatch. I plucked lightly for the 2nd test hatch and have a higher % of fertile eggs but nowhere close to an acceptable level.. Plucked more and have started to AI certain birds....

Quote: Originally Posted by dwegg  Ok newbie question... I recently acquired 5 awesome bantam cochins and the pullets just started laying and I checked for fertility and they were fertile. I set my bator up for a...

I set about 5 dozen test eggs last Friday. Candled today and had 2 fertile Silver Penciled eggs is all. Spent some time today plucking about quite a few pens. More to do tomorrow. Set the second set of test eggs today. In 4 days I will...

Quote: Originally Posted by BGMatt  Man I wish I would have read this thread about 3 years ago.  I got almost entirely out of chickens because I had relocated them inside a pole barn on my property (new well,...

Quote: Originally Posted by mibirder  Couple more ??s as I'm still in the design stages for my barn. I currently have attached runs on my pens but sometimes have water issues puddling in the runs - the are tarp...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lacrystol  Well how about 2 LOL, I have a Millie I was going to use for breeding out more Millie's but after reading about the 5 point rule, now I'm debating on using him or just put him in...

Quote: Originally Posted by HooverHenHouse  Its a bit exasperated now, but as a newbie I want to add my 2 cents. In December I decided to start my 'dream' of breeding & owning Cochins...I had been raising some pq...