Cochin Bantams and Frizzle Cochin Bantams!!

[WVduckchick]

Question: is there a blue or lavender Cochin??? And how would you come up with the color?

Yes, there are blue and lavender. Blues are part of the blue/black/splash pool. There are multiple ways to achieve blue. This chart might help.

Lavender is totally different. Lavenders must have 2 copies of the lavender gene to look lavender. They can carry one copy and still pass it on to offspring, but they will look visually black - that's called a split. Mating a split back to another lavender can produce lavenders, or more splits.

Another question: if you breed a barred Cochin with a black what will the chicks be? Black?

Barring is a sex-link gene, so it depends which parent is barred. There is also double-barred or single-barred in males, females are either barred or not.

Double barred male X barred female - offspring are double barred males, and barred females
Single barred male X barred female - 25% double barred males, 25% single barred males, 25% barred females, 25% solid females
Double barred male X solid female - Single barred males, barred females
Single barred male X solid female - 25% single barred males, 25% barred females, 50% solid
Solid male x barred female - All males single barred; All females are solid. Males will show a white patch on their heads when they hatch.

 

[WVduckchick]

Have to share the beautiful chicks i hatched yesterday. 3 blues, 2 splash, and 1 black.

 

[Tashaf]

Have a question: can two frizzled parents have a chick that grows up to be smooth feathered? As far as I know that couldn't happen?? It would develope a double frizzled chicken.

 

[ChickenMomma14]

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Huh I am in love with this little booger! She is so cute!! Especially when I turned around to check on her and she was dust bathing in the Gopher hole

 

[Laurel Meadows]

Have a question: can two frizzled parents have a chick that grows up to be smooth feathered? As far as I know that couldn't happen?? It would develope a double frizzled chicken.

My understanding is yes they can have smooth offspring. I believe frizzle x frizzle = 50% frizzle, 25% smooth, 25% frazzle/double frizzle.

 

[Calichicken2015]

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Thank you! And you're welcome lol. Yes those prefab coops are pretty thin from the ones I've seen anyway. You guys might like the foam board insulation for those- that way when you cover it up you aren't losing a lot of interior space.
One thing we found really useful for tight spaces like that is lauan plywood- you can get it 1/8" thick and it will cover up your insulation without making the coop really heavy to move

Thanks! I think we may go with that! As much as we would LOVE to build a coop from scratch...I am a bit worried we won't get it done in time and will have ALL our chickens living inside..LOL! One more question? We are wondering if it is better to get a raised coop with run area underneath or coop built on the ground with run attached? Either way I know we will add on more run space than the prefab kits provide so they are happy when we can't let them roam freely

 

[Calichicken2015]

Have to share the beautiful chicks i hatched yesterday. 3 blues, 2 splash, and 1 black.

ADORABLE

 

[Calichicken2015]

Huh I am in love with this little booger! She is so cute!! Especially when I turned around to check on her and she was dust bathing in the Gopher hole

Awww...she found the perfect spot...LOL!!!! Don't you just love their little personalities!!!

 

[AbisChicks16]

My two mottled cochins. They are 24 weeks old today.
I found this egg in the dirt beside of the laying boxes..I'm assuming it belongs to one of them.

 

[sunnie7]

Pure Cochins or mixes?