Cochin Thread!!! - Page 1092

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Originally Posted by tiki244 




Here is a couple of my favorite pullets this year. I will have to get better pictures later. Just glad I am able to post pics now.

Very nice! 

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Originally Posted by tiki244 




Here is a couple of my favorite pullets this year. I will have to get better pictures later. Just glad I am able to post pics now.

The Black is very good. Watch the eye color closely. Like the wide feathers and the fact she is not built too close to the ground. Looks like a Cochin should in my opinion.

So here is one of the Cochins I got a couple weeks ago, Smoke was such a cute chick and now he's just a mess...not worried about gender, just wondering on the feathering.

The others, the same age, are fluffier..what's up with Smoke looking all messy?

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Originally Posted by Ashdoes 

So here is one of the Cochins I got a couple weeks ago, Smoke was such a cute chick and now he's just a mess...not worried about gender, just wondering on the feathering.

 

The others, the same age, are fluffier..what's up with Smoke looking all messy?

The reason he looks like that is in fact because of gender. He looks like a cockerel, and cockerels usually tend to mature rather slowly as compared to pullets. He should fill out nicely in a few more weeks, nothing at all wrong with him.

And Kris, those pullets are gorgeous. They both have GREAT type, as Craig said that is what a Cochin should look like. Very nice birds.

~Casey

I have hatched three black bantam cockerals, one whom is completly black but the other two also black but have grown faint gold/brassy colouring in thier hackles at about 10 weeks old. They have mixed colour genes of black, lavender and cuckoo.  why has this happened?

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Originally Posted by Featherland26 

I have hatched three black bantam cockerals, one whom is completly black but the other two also black but have grown faint gold/brassy colouring in thier hackles at about 10 weeks old. They have mixed colour genes of black, lavender and cuckoo.  why has this happened?

They are young and could change but I doubt it. . When you have  mixed genes you can not predict the outcomes.

Craig

Hey, just been talking to a friend who I sold a pair of lavender pekins(bantam cochins) to, they already have a lemon cuckoo hen and want to breed out of the trio, does any one know what they might get?

Here's a pic of the pullet, they're only young, aprox' 16 weeks

And the cockerel

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Originally Posted by Meredith MMH 

Hey, just been talking to a friend who I sold a pair of lavender pekins(bantam cochins) to, they already have a lemon cuckoo hen and want to breed out of the trio, does any one know what they might get?

 

Here's a pic of the pullet, they're only young, aprox' 16 weeks

And the cockerel

very nice.  I wish they would call it lavender here in the states, but insist on sticking with self blue, which confuses too many people IMO...

I'm not sure what goes into making the lemon part of the cuckoo, but the offspring from the lemon cuckoo hen, pullets would be non-barred, cockerels would be barred. as to the rest of the color, No idea.  if it's a lemon blue with barring, then probably they could also get some lemon blues, or maybe brown reds?  i'm just guessing here tho.

but at least the pure lavender/self blues would be obvious.