Do the wild chickens overrun your yard if given the chance? I trap and remove and relocate when they get thick around here, it can be never ending. After Mango season I swear I have 50 freeloaders. It can become overwhelming but I have learned to take it in stride. Curious as to your numbers and how you keep them low.Thanks! So nice to see a similar experience out there!do keep sharing yours too!
Well currently it is only this one particular hen that has strayed and stayed in my yard. For nowDo the wild chickens overrun your yard if given the chance? I trap and remove and relocate when they get thick around here, it can be never ending. After Mango season I swear I have 50 freeloaders. It can become overwhelming but I have learned to take it
Do the wild chickens overrun your yard if given the chance? I trap and remove and relocate when they get thick around here, it can be never ending. After Mango season I swear I have 50 freeloaders. It can become overwhelming but I have learned to take it in stride. Curious as to your numbers and how you keep them low.
stride. Curious as to your numbers and how you keep them low.
not sure if she's gonna go and spread the word of the comfy coop she's found and rally up her gang! 
The boys on your avatar are just amazing. Cochin will be my next breed I think if I can ever get over the Brahma crush I am on. How well do they do with your heat and humidity? The Brahma's do surprisingly well here and for me, better than most of the other breeds I have and had, so that is a big factor on why I am choosing to continue on with that breed and not the others. I seriously doubt I will be able to find/get a Giant Cochin but wow, just dreamy.Well currently it is only this one particular hen that has strayed and stayed in my yard. For now
Cochins seem to fare very well with the heat and rain here. It gets super hot and humid around this time of the year but I haven't lost a chook to sunstroke yet so I take it as a good sign
if you could get yourself a Cochin, please do! They're super affectionate, some even follow you around like kittens and puppies i don't have a Brahma.. yet 
but I think will stick to just Cochins and my accidental hybrids for now.
How do they look now?UPDATE:
Red Jungle Fowl x Giant Cochin
Age : 8 weeks 2 days (hatched 5th Feb)
Looks like it's 2 males and 2 females.
A pair of reds and another pair black and white. Not sure where the white came from, perhaps it crossed with my white Giant Cochin?
The males seems to have feathered out very well, the females not so. Still looking rather sparse. Size-wise, the males are pretty much equal to young Cochins of the same age but the females are fairly smaller.
But most importantly, the question that we've all been wondering has been answered: YES THEY CAN FLY
View flight video here
As of today, only the male chicks can fly up this tree of mine, the females have yet to attempt this stunt.
We shall wait and see how long this flight ability sticks with them as they mature.
I second this! First, I think “Jungle Cochin” is a killer name for a mixed breed! What fun that you coined it! Second, I definitely want to see more pics. You’re going to have so much fun seeing what traits they have!Those are so cute! Please post more pics as they grow!
I'm so tempted to chuck all of them away because they keep climbing in and toppling over my plant pots and breaking the plants in the process. It kiiinda stresses me out because those are plants for sale (i run a homebased plant shop).
Wow! They look great!UPDATE:
Red Jungle Fowl x Giant Cochin
Age: 3 months 3 weeks (hatched 5th Feb)
Sorry for the sudden hiatus! In between Covid scares, work from home havoc, hectic online classes and now back to another lockdown as new cases hit more than 9000 a day, it's just been CRAZY.
Anyhuuu, my Jungle Cochins chicks have grown so much from the last update. I unfortunately lost one of the females to a fox attack, so I'm down to only three (2 males, 1 female).
They've feathered out very nicely, 2 peppers and 1 reddish brown mix, I'm not exactly sure what you would categorise their colours as. Size-wise they seem to be slightly bigger than your typical Jungle Fowls but not as voluptuous or fluffy as the Giant Cochins.
Temperaments are very VERY much like Jungle Fowls. They very skittish, do not want to be held at all (unlike my affectionate Cochins), can fly and heck they can even scale 90degrees up my fence
So yes, that's the update so far on my Jungle Cochins! Currently still thinking of giving away the males, and just keeping the one female to try and continue on this new breed. Any thoughts?
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