Any interest, Green/blue egg laying cochins..

[aurorarose25]

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Have you started this yet?

sort of trying to get my birds going...

 

[Luke0987654321]

ohh i would love to see more pics please, i have lf cochins and am looking to buy an araucana rooster.
will post pics

 

[Luke0987654321]

anyone?

 

[draye]

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Would love to see pictures.

I haven't got any cochins yet, maybe in the future.

 

[aoxa]

I would be interested in anything that lays coloured eggs

 

[Luke0987654321]

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Would love to see pictures.

I haven't got any cochins yet, maybe in the future.

(sorry if pic quality isn't great) here are some pics of the cochin hens:

 

[1muttsfan]

Seems like you might get olive eggs, since cochin eggs are brown (pale though). And you will have to do a lot of culling due to combs too, you may need a large number of chicks to pick from, several generations, and Lots of culling.

Having said that I think it would be great if you could do it!

 

[smoothmule]

I have a clean faced/rumpless large fowl Araucana cockerel that I'd sell. He's black with read in the hackles or I'd keep him. Not a lot of red but when you're crossing them, it wouldn't matter as much. He should be breeding by late spring and he's a nice heavy chick.

Here are some of my Cochin pullets. I have a few cuckoo Maran hens that I occasionally cross to one of my Araucana roosters. I found that the Araucana rooster over the brown egg layer hens works better to get the olive green eggs. Last year, every single chick was rumpless and mine are sex linked so I can sell the cockerels as chicks. The cockerels will all have a yellow dot on the head and feather out barred. The pullets will all be black with bits of color here and there.

If you prefer tails, then get an Easter Egger rooster, they're cheap and plentiful so you don't have to ship and they're super hardy and great breeders. Araucana's are not the best breeders and fairly expensive. Even my cull cockerels go for $25 or more.

Here are a couple of my young Cochin pullets

Here is one of my favorite Araucana roosters, Rudy. He's a real hunk even if he doesn't have tufts.

 

[Luke0987654321]

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[draye]

Would you think there might be an interest in green/blue egg laying cochins? I am thinking about starting a project to try and produce some green layer cochins, I am not sure if it would work or if its a waste of egg laying hens.
I was thinking about crossing a bantam lavender hen with a lavender cochin rooster.
Any input anyone???

Did you ever start breeding these?