Barred... Or Mottled Cochin Chick

[Painted Calls]

I've currently got two chicks that I'm holding onto. One blue and one black mottled. Patterns can vary of course, but this is typically about how they all look.

Still super interested to see yours fully feathered! Give us updates. ❤

 

[renk777]

I agree with Overo Mare. Looks black. Here's one of my Mottled Java chicks and all 16 had similar chick down and feathered out in the same way. Yours just doesn't have enough white

That's what I feared...but a girl can still hope!

 

[renk777]

I've currently got two chicks that I'm holding onto. One blue and one black mottled. Patterns can vary of course, but this is typically about how they all look.
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Still super interested to see yours fully feathered! Give us updates. ❤

I think the pic I saw was probably the result of a photoshoot in which the employee responsible for grabbing chicks had one too many the night before. But I will update either way so that others with similar hopes will have a thread reference. There's always a chance she's Birchen which would be cute..though that hatchery quality has very little Silver. And if she's black, that's fine too...I love the color black. Was just hoping for more variety and mottled are my favorites. Wasn't exactly planning on getting chicks or I would have prepared myself with what to look for. Went to pick up feed and suddenly came home with 6 chicks

 

[SJ0261]

I have a young chick that I thought was going to be solid black.

These pics above are when he was about 1 week old.
And below is him at around 4 weeks old where he's gotten some white feathers grown in. Most obviously on his feet and a few in his wings, and now some in his chest it looks like.

(I keep calling all my chicks a 'he' but I don't know if they're boys or girls yet...it's just kinda habit)

 

[renk777]

I have a young chick that I thought was going to be solid black.
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These pics above are when he was about 1 week old.
And below is him at around 4 weeks old where he's gotten some white feathers grown in. Most obviously on his feet and a few in his wings, and now some in his chest it looks like.
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(I keep calling all my chicks a 'he' but I don't know if they're boys or girls yet...it's just kinda habit)

I noticed most hatchery mottled Cs I'm seeing online are primarily black but do have some white feathers. I wonder if the lighter the down, the more white/contrast in the adult. My chick will probably end up with 3 white feathers Regardless, your li'l chick just gave me so much hope that my Marley is a mottled! TY!! Please keep us posted as s/he matures and more feathers come in ❤

 

[renk777]

Sorry for the tread hijack, but I was sold these chicks as bantam cochin (no colour was mentioned), but I've had several people on here say they look more like sablepoot chicks. What do you think?

I'm new to bantams... but they remind me a little of mille fleur or porcelain uccle chicks. I know I saw similar chicks when scrutinizing cochin chick colors but I can't remember which was that light :/

 

[QuinnQuinn]

And one of here back that I thought I messed up adding to the original post

 

[QuinnQuinn]

She has some motteling and barring.

Thanks... She is really going to be an individual

 

[renk777]

Sorry to hijack thread but I picked up a handful of bantam cochins a couple days ago...3 were black. 1 is all black but 2 are the typical black / white down pattern.... the lightest of the 2 does not look like a mottled chick. She definitely looks like a black bantam cochin....but she had white feathers on her feet. I know that's typical of black chicks and that she'll eventually molt those out. Then I noticed white wing feathers...again...I saw the same on my SGs a couple years ago...random white that molted out. But this little girl has white on both sides and one is tipped. Dare I hope she's just an unusually dark downed mottled chick? I found one photo online of hatchery mottled chicks and while most were predominantly light with black patches, 1 looked just like her ❤

 

[Painted Calls]

Sorry to hijack thread but I picked up a handful of bantam cochins a couple days ago...3 were black. 1 is all black but 2 are the typical black / white down pattern.... the lightest of the 2 does not look like a mottled chick. She definitely looks like a black bantam cochin....but she had white feathers on her feet. I know that's typical of black chicks and that she'll eventually molt those out. Then I noticed white wing feathers...again...I saw the same on my SGs a couple years ago...random white that molted out. But this little girl has white on both sides and one is tipped. Dare I hope she's just an unusually dark downed mottled chick? I found one photo online of hatchery mottled chicks and while most were predominantly light with black patches, 1 looked just like her ❤

I 100% believe your chick is black. Mottled is a pattern I breed and I have never seen a seemingly black chick feather out mottled.