BANTAM COCHINS CLUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nanaschicken]

I have chicks hatching today

so excited.

 

[tjo804]

Congrats!

 

[1crazychick]

I have a question. Not sure if I am in the right place. It's a genetic question, but the only other thread is genetic standards..

I would like to know if I cross a bantam orp to a bantam cochin, does anyone know what the cross may look like?

I have a Chocolate Cuckoo Bantam Orp Roo (GORGEOUS)
And I have Mottled Bantam Cochin Hens.
I am in the process of switching over to all bantam orps but if I keep them together and get rid of my mottled roos , what they may turn out like?? Anyone here good with genetics??

 

[nanaschicken]

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More to come

 

[tjo804]

OH MYLANTA!

SUCH CUTE LITTLE FLUFFERS!

 

[1crazychick]

Awe my goodness!! That blue!! Beautiful!

 

[TerryPy]

Just got my calico and mille fleur bantam cochins this spring and of course out of the SR I have 6 calico cockerels available. I'm just east of Dallas and they are free. 6wks old, lovely markings and leg feathering. This isn't the greatest pic (can take others) taken at 5wks.

 

[nanaschicken]

Wish you were closer very cute bird!

 

[tuesdaylove]

Hello everyone!

I've had two bantam Cochins, one of which was a total sweetheart who I loved dearly, the other... Eh, he's a nightmare but I couldn't let him go.

I got six bantam chicks to start my bantam flock in 2012, two of which were my Cochin babies. They're the yellow and yellow-red chicks in this picture:

I always believed them to be brother and sister. I named the boy Georgia and the girl Ruthie. They went through a terribly awkward phase as they grew, and were half yellow, half brown for a while!

When grown, Ruthie was a beautiful hen, and a wonderful mother figure. She laid great eggs almost every day, and when my rosecomb hen laid an egg fertilized by Georgia, Ruthie took it upon herself to hatch her soon-to-be niece! The egg hatched and became a hen I still have today. Unfortunately a hawk got Ruthie not long after that... I miss her every day.
This is her:

Georgia was sweet for a while when he was young, and I handled him every day, but he grew up MEAN. He attacked my other rooster and mauled the hens trying to breed, so I had to separate him. He still lives alone but I plan to get large fowl hens to put him with so he can be happy and I think they'll be so much bigger that he won't bother them too bad. Georgia is so handsome though, and he made such a pretty daughter, that I hate to let him go.
This is him:

And this is Georgia's half-rosecomb daughter, Mykerion (the black hen):

 

[CowboysAngel]

So many colors! And miss Dixie is broody!!