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I would encourage you to check out the Washington Feather Fanciers Poultry club's facebook page or the Cochins International facebook page. BTW - I am not affiliated with either group, but I have gotten great information from people who participate there :) Good luck!

Hi everyone! I love seeing all the photos of your beautiful birds. Thanks for sharing! I hope someone can help me with a "prepping for show" question or two. I am new to showing (have only shown one other time) and this is the first time I will be taking LF cochins. I have 5 LF cochins that...

Hi all! I would like to find someone who has a nice BQ or SQ barred banty cochin hen for sale. Or a few chicks or hatching eggs from a good quality flock. I have a roo that is a "sport" (he is buff with some faint white barring) and I would like to try to breed a few buff barred from him...

Dave, Thanks once again for the supremely helpful information. I think I understand, but let me just clarify. If a cochin breeder talks about "bunny tails" they are referring to a tail that is narrow at the base, but breeders of non-cochins (Wyandottes for example), use the term to refer to...

I am getting ready to put together a breeding pen and I need to pick the best birds out of my flock. I have spent hours looking at photos of show quality and show winning birds, but they are all from the side. I think I have finally got a good sense of the proportions I should be looking for...

Dave, thanks for the GREAT link! Very helpful and informative.

Forgot to mention I am located in SW Washington state, right off I-5. About 45 minutes north of Portland, Or.

I have three times as many roos as hens and need to thin the flock! This is far less than these birds are worth, but I have simply run out of space. Therefore, I have some lovely breeder quality and possibly show quality roosters who need new homes so I can focus on my goal of breeding blue...

Dave, thanks for the advice. That is what I thought I should do with my breeding pens. And thank you for the info on the splashes. To clarify, you are talking about the base body color of the bird needing to be recognizably blue, correct? It was my understanding that a splash should have...

Dave, So given my question of how best to pair him, given that he has some lacing (although not very dark) and some splashes, and is light in color, should I pair him with my lightest nice blue hen to try for light (almost white) blues with splashes? Or would a good, dark blue hen with heavy...

Such lovely birds in this thread. And such amazing colors! I do have a question regarding color that I hope someone here can answer for me. I have black and blue large fowl cochins. I have two exceedingly nice black birds - a hen and roo - that I got from Monica Harmon, but my other birds...

Thanks for the advice. I was pretty sure that the barred roo was his father. He has the correct number of toes for a cochin, and yellow skin, but his feathers are a bit "fluffier" than my other cochins. He was a "bonus egg" that my broody cochin laid after I set her on a clutch of polish eggs...

Wow! Thanks so much for the suggestion. Hopefully they will be able to give me some insight into my pretty boy roo. Korina

Wow! What lovely birds you all have! Someone from one of the other banty cochin threads suggested I post here about a "sport" that cropped up in my buff banty flock. I have this lovely rooster: He was hatched by my buff hens from eggs that they laid. At the time I had a solid buff banty...

He has no sisters - he was a "bonus" egg my broody cochin laid after I had put her on a nest of Polish eggs I wanted her to hatch :) I wish I knew which hen was his mom, but since I wasn't trying to hatch cochins, I did not take any notes. If I breed him back to the buff hens, won't that...

Thanks for the input. If he is a pure cochin, my only cochin roos at the time he was hatched were a birchen roo, and a buff roo. In the past, my buff hens and their buff roo always gave me solid buff chicks, with no pattern so I just assumed the male was a patterned bird. Regardless of...

He has the right number of toes for a cochin. My silkie roo is just a pet and the very little I know abut silkies leads me to believe that he is either a crossbreed or just a very poor specimen of a silkie. A few years ago I bought 2-4 of every breed I could find to see which breeds I liked...

Thanks HollyDuckFarmer! We think she is pretty as well :) We are definitely planning to try to hatch a few ducklings from her this year as she is no longer laying like she used to. But given that she is 6 years old, that is not too surprising. She still outlays my 6 year old black sex-link...

Hi there! I posted this question on its own thread, but then realized who better to ask than you guys :) I have a banty cochin that is a "sport". Here is a photo of him: He was hatched from my small flock of banties. Obviously he is not show quality, but he has a great color and...

So here are some photos of the duck I am asking about. When she was a year old, she looked like the top two photos - basically reminded me of the color on my Blue Slate turkeys - gray with splotches of black. She is the same size and shape as my Khaki Campbells, she has a khaki colored bill...