All I want for Christmas....

[Pele]

I'm planning for Christmas chicks. My mother asked me what I want for christmas and of course I told chicks, but I need the eggs now so that I can have chicks for christmas. My favorite breed would definately be cochins, and I'm finally getting some of my favorite variety of cochins, silver laced bantams. They are hard to find and I plan on breeding them, improving generation to generation. I can't wait! I have never taken breeding seriously before. I will be behind you guys as I'm just placing my order today, so if everything works out I'll probably be getting the eggs in a week and a half, so then they would hatch around the 22nd.

Welcome! I love cochins, but I love big ol eggs for breakfast more, so I always lean towards the large production breeds . Your breeding project sounds fun!

 

[eggsnchicks]

Hi
This is my first post after lurking here forever......I have two cochin mix bantams that went broody so we gave them each some of my darkest FBCM eggs,they scooped them under and covered them up and are sitting very tight, so cute , so if everything goes well they should be arriving early Dec...

 

[cochins1088]

Welcome! I love cochins, but I love big ol eggs for breakfast more, so I always lean towards the large production breeds . Your breeding project sounds fun!

These will also be my first bantams, all of my current cochins are large fowl, they are also know as giant cochins because of their size so they all produce "big ol eggs" hahaha. But yeah, they aren't the most productive. They seem more seasonal than anything. In the middle of summer I get almost an egg a day from all of the hens and end up with 15 cartons of eggs in the fridge at a time, but then everything slows down dramatically as soon as days get shorter. I don't ever get eggs in the winter. In fact, I haven't seen an egg in nearly 3 weeks from my 16 hens. But I love them.

I have considered getting a few chickens from more productive breeds like Plymouth Rocks or Leghorns so that I'm always am getting something, but I don't know. Maybe someday (next spring) hahaha.

 

[Pele]

These will also be my first bantams, all of my current cochins are large fowl, they are also know as giant cochins because of their size so they all produce "big ol eggs" hahaha. But yeah, they aren't the most productive. They seem more seasonal than anything. In the middle of summer I get almost an egg a day from all of the hens and end up with 15 cartons of eggs in the fridge at a time, but then everything slows down dramatically as soon as days get shorter. I don't ever get eggs in the winter. In fact, I haven't seen an egg in nearly 3 weeks from my 16 hens. But I love them.

I have considered getting a few chickens from more productive breeds like Plymouth Rocks or Leghorns so that I'm always am getting something, but I don't know. Maybe someday (next spring) hahaha.

I highly recommend Red SLs, they make a religion out of laying, and usually have a pretty sweet personality. My girl Darla likes to sit on my knee and gossip with me.

Of course, she's always gossiping. You can open the box on her and she'll be like "oh hai, so our conversation got interrupted. Let me tell you about what I saw in the yard...". She'll even keep clucking away while you reach under her, like nothing in the world is wrong. The rest of the girls give me offended looks, but not Darla, she's too busy talking.

 

[cochins1088]

Hi
This is my first post after lurking here forever......I have two cochin mix bantams that went broody so we gave them each some of my darkest FBCM eggs,they scooped them under and covered them up and are sitting very tight, so cute , so if everything goes well they should be arriving early Dec...

Yay, I love hatching with broody's, but I'm going to have to use an incubator with these eggs. Cochins go broody like crazy, last spring I had 20 nesting boxes set up for my 26 cochin hens and each one of the boxes contained at least one broody (some had 2 broodys in one box) I think there were only 2 hens at the time that weren't. Of course, I can't let that many be broody so I stole their eggs daily, but they insisted and it took a long time to break them.

And I know what you mean about lurking, I used this site to answer all of my questions for nearly 3 years before I finally joined 3 months ago. It's an amzing site!

 

[cochins1088]

I highly recommend Red SLs, they make a religion out of laying, and usually have a pretty sweet personality. My girl Darla likes to sit on my knee and gossip with me.

Of course, she's always gossiping. You can open the box on her and she'll be like "oh hai, so our conversation got interrupted. Let me tell you about what I saw in the yard...". She'll even keep clucking away while you reach under her, like nothing in the world is wrong. The rest of the girls give me offended looks, but not Darla, she's too busy talking.

I have a couple of chicken that do that, I just love it! Of course of few of them act more like lap dogs than chickens, hahaha.

What does the SL stand for? I know most of my breeds, and I think I've seen it before, but I just can't remember.

 

[tadpole98]

The 6 cuckoo eggs came in the mail last night, so I rested them and set them. They aren't as brown as I'd like to see in a Marans egg, but it's possible that the seller's hens are late in their laying cycle and the eggs are lighter because of that.

The other seller should have their eggs arrive today!

sweet! I also set mine last night. and I got my eggs from two different sellers

 

[Pele]

Awesome! The remaining 4 eggs arrived today!! And they're the gorgeous coloration that I was hoping for. I got blue coppers and blue splashes, now I'm really going to want those particular eggs to hatch!

And sorry for not being more clear before. The SL in Red SLs means Sex Link. Their coloration is linked to their gender. It's a hatchery hybrid that is commonly called Cinnamon Queen, Gold Comet, etc.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

We just bought a sportsman 1502 looking forward to first hatch, but chickens are being a little lazy.

 

[cochins1088]

Oh I know of the golden comets.

And the sportsman 1502 is a great incubator! I'm jealous, hahaha. It's a bit out of my price range.