Cochin

These are the best chickens I have had.

They are SO friendly and sweet.

I love them so much :) Great with kids too

and their feet are so adorable

Cochins are definately my absolute favorite breed! They are extremely friendly and make great pets, especially for kids. Mine come running when they see me, even the ones that weren't hand raised from chicks. 

Theyre the cutest chicks, have lots of different color varieties and are very popular. I rarely hear anyone speak badly of them

Cochins are among my favorite breeds. I had never had an aggressive cochin, even the roosters are super sweet.  They are very cuddly and love attention making them wonderful pets. Even though I have heard cochins are poor layers mine lay an egg a day, except for in the winter.

Bantam Cochins are my favorite chickens.   

They are people friendly, don't fly off, are talkative and motivated, THE best broody hens I ever owned!  My balls of fluff have incubated & hatched their own,  turkey, peafowl and Ducks eggs for me!  They incubate, brood and raise all their hatches for as long as the babies want them to mother them. The odd species they raise do not think they are chickens.  They eventually wander away from their fluffy mama and live as their species intended. 

Very sweet natured and cuddly. Lay teeny tiny little eggs and hatch teeny tiny lil baby chooks. Rooster is glorious to look at and loves a cuddle. Not gluttonous and are quite selective in their eating habits. A great pleasure to share space with.

My first cochin was a plain little red girl, and she was the bomb. She raised three broods of chicks each year, and she'd come up when we called her name to get petted. Cochins make the best pet chickens, because they're so personable and sweet. They're calm around children and aren't flightly. They're just overall awesome chicks. I will be getting a couple more some day. :]

I bought these standard sized birds specifically for brooding and raising chicks. I like the variety of color you get with them. One of my hens went broody after laying only two eggs. They aren’t top layers nor are they very meaty but they do have two major advantages. They brood and raise chicks well and with their temperment, feathered feet, and variety of colors, they make great pet chickens.

Big beautiful birds that come in any color in the rainbow. Huge balls of fluff that childeren and adults seem drawn to. Very friendly to humans, I have never met an aggressive Cochin and I have raised them for over 20 years. There may be one out there but I haven't seen it. The only con is that they arent the best layers. Love these birds!

I have Cochins and Cochin mixes in my backyard flock. They lay well every day without fail and started laying early. They are talkative and love to follow people around and just talk at them. Not an aggressive bone in their body. Even my rooster who is about 11 pounds is a push over and will let the little hens and smaller rooster push him around. They do go broody and love to sit on the eggs. My only solution for that since it's below zero is to pick up the eggs twice a day and that keeps her laying rather than sitting on the eggs.

My only gripe with these birds is that they are so smart they can find a way to get out of any enclosure I put them in. Even with wire on top and an enclosed coop they will find a way to get out and free range if that's what they want to do even if I'm not ready to let them yet. I have found them in the horse pasture under the car and all over the yard. It's totally fine but if they get out before laying their eggs then they will lay them all over the place. They are easy to catch though when I go out they run right up to me so no problem there, but be ready for an Easter egg hunt lol.