Stampin.Hannah
In the Brooder
I've looked quite a bit, and wasn't able to find anything that really matches our circumstances (a lot of other posts are inquiring about cochin hens with other roos)... ANY help/insight/pictures that you guys can provide would be GREATLY appreciated!
We have a Giant Blue Cochin rooster, he's beautiful and he really gets around the coop (with 19 hens to keep him occupied, he doesn't beat up on any one bird too much, which is nice, but it's not to say he doesn't have his favorites!) - We recently did our first-ever hatch, and we have NO idea who any of the mother hens are! We have an extremely varied flock, and we're wondering if anyone has any pictures of known Blue Cochin Rooster crosses?
Our flock consists of Blue-, Silver-, and Gold-laced Wyandottes, Easter Eggers, Ameraucanas, Barnevelders, Buff Orpingtons, Speckled Sussex, Naked-Neck/Turken, a Red (Star or Rhode Island, we don't know which), a white hen (not sure her breed) and a dark brown hen with (maybe) double-laced feathers (not sure her breed, either).
All five of the chicks that hatched have feathered legs (we knew that was a dominant trait, but that's about the only thing we knew ahead of time), and range in color from silvery-white to black. One black guy/gal has white all down her chin/belly/rump. Two of the mid-range gray chicks have similar coloring, but one has orange legs/feet and the other has black/blue legs.
Like I said, any known crosses with the Giant Blue Cochin as the rooster would be helpful - I've spent the last couple weeks researching chicken genetics, but it's a LOT more complicated than I remember from high school biology, and unfortunately the majority of the information out there is over my head. Womp womp!
I've attached pictures:
The rooster standing next to one of our Barnevelders, and our Blue Laced Wyandotte.
The little gray fuzzballs that hatched (multiple pictures, because, SO CUTE).
We have a Giant Blue Cochin rooster, he's beautiful and he really gets around the coop (with 19 hens to keep him occupied, he doesn't beat up on any one bird too much, which is nice, but it's not to say he doesn't have his favorites!) - We recently did our first-ever hatch, and we have NO idea who any of the mother hens are! We have an extremely varied flock, and we're wondering if anyone has any pictures of known Blue Cochin Rooster crosses?
Our flock consists of Blue-, Silver-, and Gold-laced Wyandottes, Easter Eggers, Ameraucanas, Barnevelders, Buff Orpingtons, Speckled Sussex, Naked-Neck/Turken, a Red (Star or Rhode Island, we don't know which), a white hen (not sure her breed) and a dark brown hen with (maybe) double-laced feathers (not sure her breed, either).
All five of the chicks that hatched have feathered legs (we knew that was a dominant trait, but that's about the only thing we knew ahead of time), and range in color from silvery-white to black. One black guy/gal has white all down her chin/belly/rump. Two of the mid-range gray chicks have similar coloring, but one has orange legs/feet and the other has black/blue legs.
Like I said, any known crosses with the Giant Blue Cochin as the rooster would be helpful - I've spent the last couple weeks researching chicken genetics, but it's a LOT more complicated than I remember from high school biology, and unfortunately the majority of the information out there is over my head. Womp womp!
I've attached pictures:
The rooster standing next to one of our Barnevelders, and our Blue Laced Wyandotte.
The little gray fuzzballs that hatched (multiple pictures, because, SO CUTE).
And super cute chickies!
