Cochin Thread!!! - Page 920

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Originally Posted by thecochincoop 

for those of you that would like info on bathing and show prep I have a nice writeup page on my website www.thecochincoop.com

just a compilation of what I've learned over the years but should be of help to those of you starting out :)

Thanks!!  just what i was trying to find last night. 

they're looking happier this morning, and he's been trying to entice her with 'goodies'  8)  gave them some dried mealworms and a small bit of sweet feed in addition to the chick feed i use. everyone gets chick feed, and free choice oyster shell. i have too many age varieties to try to separate who gets what when they all free range.

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Originally Posted by lilcrow 

Amazingly yes. They adjust to it almost instantly and the earlier it is done to them the better. The reason I like band aides is the little gauze pad works almost perfectly as a spacer. Keep their legs taped up with that pad as a guide for how far apart their legs should be. Leave it on for a week or so if you get them really young, and longer if they were older when you did it.

 

 

It works surprisingly well. I did it for chicks 4 different times last Spring. With in a week I couldn't tell the spraddled chicks from the others.

I put the gauze part around the legs so it doesn't stick to their feathers. I put it around one leg then trim it to the width I want between the legs. Then I put the other side on with it's sticky parts over the first side's length. The chicks squirm a bit but with the gauze part on the legs it is alot easier to cut off if you don't get it lined up right the first time.

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Originally Posted by thecochincoop 

for those of you that would like info on bathing and show prep I have a nice writeup page on my website www.thecochincoop.com

just a compilation of what I've learned over the years but should be of help to those of you starting out :)

Thank you! I am going to wash my first bird this week and I'm nervous.

Here is one of my "Baby Doll cochins that I hatched on Easter Sunday.

There are 8 of them on this hatch. I hope you enjoy seeing them. This one is the smallest that I've hatched so far.

I bet the one you are going to bathe is the Buff Roo!   

The only difference with the way I do it is I use the pad part as the spacer and I dab my finger on the sticky part of the band aid where I'm going to wrap it around the leg. I keep doing it until the sticky is all gone then when I wrap it around I leave a little of the sticky part still on the wrap so that it adheres to the back of the pad. Your right about not wanting the band aid to stick to the feathers, it would be a nightmare to get it off otherwise.

 

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Originally Posted by mjgigax 

 

It works surprisingly well. I did it for chicks 4 different times last Spring. With in a week I couldn't tell the spraddled chicks from the others.

I put the gauze part around the legs so it doesn't stick to their feathers. I put it around one leg then trim it to the width I want between the legs. Then I put the other side on with it's sticky parts over the first side's length. The chicks squirm a bit but with the gauze part on the legs it is alot easier to cut off if you don't get it lined up right the first time.

 

Okay I have to ask... What are Baby Doll Cochins?   Are they a new breed I have never heard of them, its so tiny when its first hatched. 

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Originally Posted by ROCKIN R FARM 

Okay I have to ask... What are Baby Doll Cochins?   Are they a new breed I have never heard of them, its so tiny when its first hatched. 

They are not a new breed . They are the result of a project to shrink a Bantam Birchen Cochin. The shrunken version would not meet  the current standards for Bantam Cochins set by the ABA or APA.

ok thinking about the babydoll, i'm wondering, for SQ cochin bantams, how big is too big?  I haven't weighed my new guy yet but he is pretty thin. but he seems huge compared to my others, if only because of the amount of fluff he's got going on.

for size comparisson, the cage is 14" tall inside height, and 24" long.  not looking at the hen as once i get a good white girl the frizzle is either gone or relegated to the egg pen. frizzles don't do well with me, since i free range a lot and they all seem to stay wet if it's raining. silkies too for that matter.

I have no problem with projects, as a matter of fact I've seen some really beautiful birds that were the result of careful breeding over the years to get a particular color, but if you want to know what the down side is with these diminutive birds, look at the problems the Seramas have. If you have a Class A bird - which is much desired - it is an accident from two Class B's because the Class A's don't breed. They are also plagued with health problems.

No thanks I like my "medium" sized birds which I thought were already small enough and have the potential for enough problems due to all the feathering.