What quality are my cochin and brahma bantam hens?

Cloverr39

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This is just for fun, cause both of these hens are just pets. I don't plan on breeding them for show (or to a rooster of their breed at all), but I'm just curious on what quality they would be considered. What are some good traits they have, some bad ones. I'm honestly not even sure if frizzled bantam cochins or bantam brahmas can be showed or not. The brahma I got from a breeder and the cochin was thrown in as an extra egg to some silkie hatching eggs.
The brahma is an Isabel and the cochin is black with gold leakage.
 

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I don't think those variety's are recognized by the APA.
The Brahma looks like it has vulture hocks which are a disqualification but her comb is nice.
I don't know about the Cochin. What color is she supposed to be?
 
The Brahma looks like it has vulture hocks which are a disqualification but her comb is nice.
I didn't know what vulture hocks were, so I had to look them up. Yes, she does have them. Honestly it's one of my favorite traits in her. For some reason they look really cool to me. I had a brahma rooster with them as well and I think they're really pretty. I'm just starting to create a new breed and I really wouldn't mind some vulture hawks in them. I think it would suit them.
I don't know about the Cochin. What color is she supposed to be?
I think she is supposed to be a black. She has leakage in the neck though. I was never sent a photo of the cochin flock or told there were frizzled ones in there too. The person I bought silkie eggs from simply said they would add a cochin egg because they didn't have enough silkie eggs (they were already free so I didn't complain. Besides I had been wanting a bantam cochin).
 
In Europe vulture hocks are required in Brahmas and she would be disqualified without it. Good eye, though.
That said, she should be smaller, deeper and wider. She needs a more massive head. She doesn’t have the Brahma type. She also has poor feather quality, they are curling. Common in lavenders.
The Cochin could be deeper bodied.
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