Calico Cochin Thread

[County Boy]

Beautiful Nancy! They have all changed a lot. Ivan is stunning!!

 

[Fancy Feathers]

Thanks Mike!

 

[CrzyChcknLady]

This is Simon & Hazel, my parents. Bantam cochins start laying eggs at right around 4 months. I have hatched many of their eggs, they are just turning 8 months old. I have one pair of their babies for sale now.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Took some pictures today

Scotty, Motley, Puppy
Ivan
There's a lot I love about Tara. Not her black beak, though.

All your birds are beautiful! I want to grab that beak and kiss it!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

This is Simon & Hazel, my parents. Bantam cochins start laying eggs at right around 4 months. I have hatched many of their eggs, they are just turning 8 months old. I have one pair of their babies for sale now.

Not sure if you know it or not but the little rooster on the right is d'Uccle, not Cochin. Or at least a mix. Cutie babies though!

 

[ki4got]

Quote: i agree, d'uccle or d'uccle mix... cochins don't have ear muffs. and since muffs/beards are dominant, it doesn't look like he came from the pair listed above, since neither are muffed/bearded.

 

[CrzyChcknLady]

My chickens don't have the chance to cross, and I no longer had mille fleurs when these eggs were done. This is the little pair I chose to keep.

 

[CrzyChcknLady]

My pairs/trios are all kept separate and the eggs are marked as they taken from each pen. They are definitely from these parents.

 

[CrzyChcknLady]

Don't you get calico cochins from originally breeding a Cochin with a mille fleur? The same as when you breed splash birds, you can get gray or splash or white. If they are made by crossing a mille fleur with a white Cochin there will be mille fleur that come out in some occasionally. Right? (I am asking, not trying to sound rude, so please don't take offense, and tell me if I am not correct)

 

[County Boy]

Don't you get calico cochins from originally breeding a Cochin with a mille fleur? The same as when you breed splash birds, you can get gray or splash or white. If they are made by crossing a mille fleur with a white Cochin there will be mille fleur that come out in some occasionally. Right? (I am asking, not trying to sound rude, so please don't take offense, and tell me if I am not correct)

Actually calico''s are just offshoots from the mille fleur project. Breeding in white won't help make a calico as white is recessive. It would just continue to make more mille fleur patterned birds.