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

[LilJoe]

Getting ready to say goodbye to my three pretty Cochins, that is unless someone has any miraculous objection to them all being little Roos at just under two months old...
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Craigslist here we come.

The gold laced ( #1) and white (#2) look Iffy

 

[TattooedChicks]

The gold laced ( #1) and white (#2) look Iffy

And the partridge is doomed? I haven't heard any crowing yet and the squabbles are all still minor. If there is hope I can give them another two weeks if they continue to behave. Thank you.

 

[TattooedChicks]

Same birds about a week ago.

 

[LilJoe]

Hmm..maybe give 'em a week or two..

 

[TattooedChicks]

Hmm..maybe give 'em a week or two..

I'll take hope where I can, don't want to lose any more birds this year.

 

[sue25]

I've just had to rehome 7 of my babies they were all cockerals I still have 2 Porcelain D'Uccles roos, 3 Cochin roos 1 Silky/Brama roo 1 Silver Pencled Bantum Brama roo and 1 Black taled White Jap roo and 1 oegb cockeral. Still more roos then I need So many cockerals this year. Still need.to get rid of several more.

 

[TattooedChicks]

I've just had to rehome 7 of my babies they were all cockerals I still have 2 Porcelain D'Uccles roos, 3 Cochin roos 1 Silky/Brama roo 1 Silver Pencled Bantum Brama roo and 1 Black taled White Jap roo and 1 oegb cockeral. Still more roos then I need So many cockerals this year. Still need.to get rid of several more.

Think it's the heat affecting hatch rates or is it just a bad year for boys all around?

 

[WVduckchick]

I had a family drive a couple hours to me yesterday, for a chocolate Orpington cockerel. They ended up taking a few extras, including a chocolate orp pulley, and my calico cochin roo, and a little solid black cochin mix with all black skin, but no other indications of being anything other than cochin (silkie in her background, i presume), and my last very young splash cochin. I have to hope that the broody on eggs now hatches some splashes! i want to make an all-splash pen.

 

[sue25]

Think it's the heat affecting hatch rates or is it just a bad year for boys all around?

I think it's just the year for boys.

 

[Mylied]

The gold laced ( #1) and white (#2) look Iffy

I'm only asking because I have 4 cochin chicks who I will need to figure out sex with. Any other breed I dealt with, all 3 of those would be definite males. Do cochins get bigger, pinker combs early? I noticed with my silver laced Wyandotte that her comb got bigger than usual and a little pink earlier than I am used to but she is definitely a female. So is it the same with cochins?