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

[Marthab1953]

Adorable! What colors do you have there?

The chicks are mixture of Blue, Calico, Mille, Black, Mottled etc. I have just a mixture running together right now, Although I do have a breeding pen of Isabella, and breeding pen of Silver Penciled set up right now not laying though. I will separate my quad of reds middle of January, also a quad of Blue Mottled and Black Mottled into breeding pens and my solid Blues into breeding pens. The rest of my flock to run together will be Blue, Millie, Silver Penciled, Calico etc. Cockerels and Hens will be black, Calico, millie, etc. whatever color mix I have for eggs to eat, and give to School classrooms to have them hatch.

Here are a few pictures I took couple weeks ago, I have since separated the Silver Penciled into their breeding pen.

 

[WVduckchick]

The chicks are mixture of Blue, Calico, Mille, Black, Mottled etc. I have just a mixture running together right now, Although I do have a breeding pen of Isabella, and breeding pen of Silver Penciled set up right now not laying though. I will separate my quad of reds middle of January, also a quad of Blue Mottled and Black Mottled into breeding pens and my solid Blues into breeding pens. The rest of my flock to run together will be Blue, Millie, Silver Penciled, Calico etc. Cockerels and Hens will be black, Calico, millie, etc. whatever color mix I have for eggs to eat, and give to School classrooms to have them hatch.

Here are a few pictures I took couple weeks ago, I have since separated the Silver Penciled into their breeding pen.

Very pretty birds, thanks for all the pics! What is the cockerel in the far right of this pic? Silver penciled? He is patterned like silver duckwing? I like him a lot.

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Also has anyone here heard of a color that would be noted on a score card as "Straw"? I was at the Ohio show a few weeks ago and saw some lovely birds. A few were marked Variety - "Straw", but when I came home and looked it up, I can't find any information on it.

 

[Marthab1953]

Very pretty birds, thanks for all the pics! What is the cockerel in the far right of this pic? Silver penciled? He is patterned like silver duckwing? I like him a lot.

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Also has anyone here heard of a color that would be noted on a score card as "Straw"? I was at the Ohio show a few weeks ago and saw some lovely birds. A few were marked Variety - "Straw", but when I came home and looked it up, I can't find any information on it.

Thank you!

I could not get all the colors I have as they keep moving and I was taking pictures of my youngest grand-daughter feeding them, and of course had to take lots of pictures.

Yes he is one of two Silver Penciled Cockerels I have along with the four hens I am only using one with my hens so one will run with my main bantam cochin flock.

I have saw some pictures of Straw but can not remember where now you got me thinking now I am going to have to search where

 

[sunnie7]

I have 9 week old bantam Cochin mixes (probably silkie) they have been out in the coop for a week now with no heat just straw and pine shavings, we live in southern Indiana. I have a really small/ cheap coop that was given to me and I'm really worried about putting heat in it and my husband doesn't want to run an extension cord until we get a chain link put up around the coop because he's worried the dog will mess with the extension cord. We are waiting for the fencing company to come back out sometime in the next 2 weeks. The weather has been in the 40's in the day and mid-high 30's at night. They have been sleeping cuddled up in one of the nesting boxes which everything in the coop is pretty much the same level (is this okay ice read that their breed tends to do this a lot or do I need to block them off, there just not much Soace in there) Even the perchs are just sitting on the ground. There's not really anywhere on the side for me to hook them into unless I somehow hang them from the top. Also, this week the temps are going to drop to 19-mid 30s at night. Please give me your advice! Will they be okay without heat or do I really need to figure out how to put heat other there or should I put them in their Rubbermaid brooder in the garage on the nights it's supposed to be below freezing.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I wouldn't heat that small coop, or really any coop. The bird in your picture looks fully feathered enough to be okay, especially if there are a few that will huddle if they are cold. They will be okay especially if they have been hardened off the heat already.

 

[sunnie7]

I wouldn't heat that small coop, or really any coop. The bird in your picture looks fully feathered enough to be okay, especially if there are a few that will huddle if they are cold. They will be okay especially if they have been hardened off the heat already.

What about them sleeping in the nesting boxes and the perches being that low? I added a picture!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

It won't work in the long term. Unfortunately those prefab coops cost too much and are never practical. You have a few months to either change it some, or to build something else. Your chicks won't probably roost yet. Mine don't usually until they are 3-4 months of age. Yours will sleep in nestboxes probably. Eventually you will need to raise the roost some too. The coop building forum can maybe give you some good ideas. I would try posting over there.

 

[ChickenMomma14]

I am the only one who thinks that bantam Cochin eggs are the cutest!

 

[Violetsfeathers]

I am the only one who thinks that bantam Cochin eggs are the cutest!

Not the only one!
I think mine are cuter tho

 

[ChickenMomma14]

Not the only one!
I think mine are cuter tho

I had a really little one early this morning... I opened the nest boxes and I instantly said AWWW