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What are your goals? What variety do you want? I know many breeders of quality birds that I can recommend . You want to win Best of Breed in an Open show or to do well at a county fair or buy quality breeding stock? PM me for more information.

My White Frizzle breeding pen. Love those birds. My Columbian breeding pen this year. My Buff Columbian breeders for this year

Frizzles sometimes don't perch because they can't fly well if at all. I have them and some do and some do not perch.

You have a Silver Penciled. In Europe this variety is called Silver Partridge.

Calico is just a name for cull Mille birds with too much white. Buffs of quality are hard to find anywhere. Probably need to contact someone like Tom Roebuck in virginia or Bob Hawes in Maine. They have been producing the best Buffs over the last few years.

Anyone on here breeding Gold Laced Cochins in either Bantam or LF? Love to see pictures and hear about what you have learned with them I am breeding bantams and I struggle to do it well

As another person stated there are many breeders of SQ Cochins. If I was wanting to start over I would recommend Blacks, followed by Whites, Blues, then Mottled if I wanted to do well. If you want to just have fun and know you can not win a show then any pattern variety is fun and beautiful...

Messaged you.

Cochins are to have yellow feet. White is the only color Cochin feet are not supposed to be. DISQUALIFICATIONS: Bare middle and/or outer toe - Bottoms of feet showing complete absence of yellow in all varieties

Picture of the main floor of the 2014 Ohio National poultry show. Over 9600 birds entered. There was another building with sale birds, heavy duck, geese, and turkeys. Pictured are the Best of Variety and Reserve of Variety Gold Laced and the BV and RV Columbians. Gold Laced Cockerel RV...

Nancy Compton, Annamay Carlson, John Burgess all come to mind as good breeders.

Neither of these a Cochin. Foot feathers are totally missing. Love their color.

You caught that before I corrected myself. You are correct

If they are truly Self Blue and not Splash you will probably get all Black chicks some split to Self Blue. If your Self Blue are actually Splash you can expect to get Blues and perhaps Blue Mottled.

You can breed any smooth to any frizzle and can expect 50% smooth and 50% Frizzled. Last year I did use a smooth male from a frizzle breeding to breed back to his mother. Type and feather quality were my reasons for using him. I am pleased with the offspring. Generally I use the widest feathered...

1 is a Blue. 2 looks as if it could be a Black and #3 is Partridge

I don't or never had until this year. My Columbian hens laid so well I sold some eggs to get more Columbians out after I had already hatched 150 for myself. I have never sold a Black egg and probably won't as long as I AI Blacks. My method above really works well.

These last posts made me want to share what I have found to be the best method of shipping eggs I have tried. I use set rate postal boxes medium or large depending on how many eggs I have to ship. I seal the bottom and all seams to insure no leakage. I use mini flake pine bedding as my medium...

FYI. When I trim a bird for breeding I trim the male from teh vent area down and the hens from the vent area up. It is a lot of feathers but it works