Bearded Cochin Breeding Idea?

[Northwest_Wannabe]

I wasn't sure where to put this! Didn't see a "I want to develop a sort of chicken breed" forum area haha, now I don't have intentions to make something new to be added to the SOP or anything, but instead a fun breed to just have for myself and family and such : )

My mom (and I as well) always loved Cochins but ADORED the beard on Easter Eggers! But when we had Cochin x EE crosses F1 (bantams) had a Lot of EE traits ("hawk face", not soft tail, lightly or clean legs, etc) and only a few Cochin genes (low to the ground, small feet, being/brown/cream eggs) so I think I'm going to go in a different direction with these hypotheticals and plans!

This project probably won't be in action for a long time, if someone else whose able with both time and money wants to give it a shot by all means!! Do it!! I think they'd be cute!

But my current end goal is this;

-Full Luxurious Beard
-Big Ole Poofy Feathered Legs
-Single Comb? (Not Needed but probably gonna happen with the parents I'm choosing)
-Soft Round Face
-Soft Round Tail
-Tiny Dwarf Cochin Feet

TLDR: Cochin but with Beard

My idea is to take Cochin and Faverolle together and go from there!! Select only the ones who have the traits I want, which there shouldn't be too many I don't, I feel like genetically this combination is going to make a TON of culls, maybe some with stiffer tails, but beards and feathered legs are dominant, so I'm hoping this wont take like 12 years of breeding and only a few generations of selective breeding! : D

What do you think? Would this work decently enough? Color genetics don't matter much to me, although I am going to go into the chicken genetics calculator and play around with possibilities for fun ;D

 

[black_cat]

I have no idea how genetics work but I think that this breed is a great idea and I now want a breeded cochin. If you accidently breed in colored eggs that could be a plus as well!

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

I have no idea how genetics work but I think that this breed is a great idea and I now want a breeded cochin. If you accidently breed in colored eggs that could be a plus as well!

A reason I didn't mind EE/Cochin but I think that would be a much longer road for the type I'm looking for as well as for colored eggs unfortunately :'( I'd love it too!! I believe Favorelle lay a white or cream egg so that's about the same as Cochin, so it's what these hypothetical guys would lay too unfortunately :'(

 

[black_cat]

A reason I didn't mind EE/Cochin but I think that would be a much longer road for the type I'm looking for as well as for colored eggs unfortunately :'( I'd love it too!! I believe Favorelle lay a white or cream egg so that's about the same as Cochin, so it's what these hypothetical guys would lay too unfortunately :'(

Whoops, I missed the part where you were using faverolles and not EEs! I think that either way regardless of egg color this will be adorable. I'd like to make my own breed but I have some issues:
-no space
-no time
-my breed basically combines all my favorite traits from breeds into this one chaotic monster lol

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

Whoops, I missed the part where you were using faverolles and not EEs! I think that either way regardless of egg color this will be adorable. I'd like to make my own breed but I have some issues:
-no space
-no time
-my breed basically combines all my favorite traits from breeds into this one chaotic monster lol

I probably won't be able to start this project for YEARS until I either have my own space or if miraculously I find a free or cheap favorelle haha! Breeding projects take time, patience, money and plenty of space which none of which I have a ton of right now haha, hopefully one day! What would be your dream bird? It may be more possible or easy than you think!!

 

[black_cat]

I probably won't be able to start this project for YEARS until I either have my own space or if miraculously I find a free or cheap favorelle haha! Breeding projects take time, patience, money and plenty of space which none of which I have a ton of right now haha, hopefully one day! What would be your dream bird? It may be more possible or easy than you think!!

Oh my god, it's completely ridiculous. Imagine a cochin version of an ayam cemani (cochin shape and such but entirely black and such) with a polish crest-stay with me- also black, and it lays blue eggs. I'm almost positive that that is near impossible to achieve without devoting 30 years of my life to it, and tbh, I'm not that committed.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Bearded Cochin would be a new breed variety, the breed will still be cochin, but with a beard.

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

Oh my god, it's completely ridiculous. Imagine a cochin version of an ayam cemani (cochin shape and such but entirely black and such) with a polish crest-stay with me- also black, and it lays blue eggs. I'm almost positive that that is near impossible to achieve without devoting 30 years of my life to it, and tbh, I'm not that committed.

I'm not entirely familiar with chicken genetics but I know a little bit! and I dont think this would take 30 years at all I think selecting specific starting parents would aid immensely! I think if you started with silkies (probably black) you'd be better off then maybe with cochins, while still retaining a similar shape! I've found that my silkie crosses (which honestly are usually silkie x cochin) are pretty damn cochin shaped! even one of our hens we used to have that was a silkie who's 7th grandfather was a chocolate orpington (and she was smooth feathered) she was very cochin shaped just a little taller, she even had a crest similar to a polish I'd say! I think blue eggs would be your most difficult part, since I think blue eggs are recessive but I dont know a lot about egg genetics ^^" but at the very least to just breed a black skinned, black feathered, 'teapot shaped' crested bird, totally possible!!

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

Bearded Cochin would be a new breed variety, the breed will still be cochin, but with a beard.

I personally don't even think I'd call them a variety of cochin haha, they'd just be a cute little mix breed, but something that may be fun to give a shot at breeding one day! I love a big thick chicken beard, its so cute!

 

[MysteryChicken]

I personally don't even think I'd call them a variety of cochin haha, they'd just be a cute little mix breed, but something that may be fun to give a shot at breeding one day! I love a big thick chicken beard, its so cute!

I have an EE with a Beard you'll absolutely adore.