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This was posted by Kass so I'm betting the eyes are chocolate chips! 

Some of them drop them while they're walking (literally lol) and others make a big production out of it and sit and squawk in the nest for 45 minutes making sure EVERYbody for 4 acres knows they're  laying an egg. It does sound like you've got one wanting to sit on eggs. Depending on the chicken some get pretty bent out of shape when they're broody.

Uummm....oh yea....you don't officially have chickens until you show us PICTURES lol

All 4 of my big Cochin girls are gentle and soooo dang sweet, is that how yours are? They come running up to me and squat like they're asking to be picked up. So then I have to hold them and tell them how wonderful they are. I think it's just their personality because they were raised alongside the hatchery Silkies and the Silkie girls act nothing like that. I'm seriously debating putting my dark blue male with them long enough to hatch out some babies. If *this* is what hand raised Cochin girls act like? That'd be what I want for ALL my chickens.

rofl!!!!! That's hilarious!!!

I'm sick to death of this rain. 5 more days of this????

Originally Posted by Kassaundra 

Originally Posted by Ksane 

Some of them drop them while they're walking (literally lol) and others make a big production out of it and sit and squawk in the nest for 45 minutes making sure EVERYbody for 4 acres knows they're  laying an egg. It does sound like you've got one wanting to sit on eggs. Depending on the chicken some get pretty bent out of shape when they're broody.

Uummm....oh yea....you don't officially have chickens until you show us PICTURES lol

I have a couple of those and when they are finished they will step just out of the chicken door yelling thier fool heads off looking all around to see if anyone is paying attention and if you are they prance out to the middle of the run area still singing at the top of thier lungs!  Such Drama Queens!!!!!

Originally Posted by Ksane 

All 4 of my big Cochin girls are gentle and soooo dang sweet, is that how yours are? 

All the girls are turning out that way...will simply stand still for you to pick them up.  Delilah and Samson don't like to be held, but Delilah likes to be stroked....even when she is broodie....she almost purrs.

 I just holler back at them, "I've been through childbirth 3 times and ya'll are a bunch of sissys!!" lol
 

Yup. That one I posted the picture of keeps trying to be broody and she purrs like that when we discuss how raising children is NOT what it's cracked up to be and I take her eggs and send her out to play. I've got a mix in the laying yard that will chew your arm off over eggs that aren't even hers though. My big Cochin girls just remind me of.....matriarchs. That's what it is.  My boys are standoffish like Samson, it's got to be the breed because I didn't know male from female for months and they were all raised and handled the same.

Nana, you're not helping my argument against hatching more big Cochins out :-)

MAWAHAAHAAHAAAAA!!!!

We're going to Newcastle....I'm so tempted to buy some of Bo's pullets.....

Oh no....I've been trying so hard not to think about Newcastle since I found out some of his birds are going to be there. The only thing that will me feel a tiny bit better if I don't go is that *everyone* wants his birds and there's no way he's got enough to go around haha!

I'm reading up on how to get Lemon Blues right now.....it might be easier just to buy some Lemon Blue eggs.

MAWAHAAHAAHAAAAA!!!!

We're going to Newcastle....I'm so tempted to buy some of Bo's pullets.....