Black Frizzle Cochins

[Harmon_7]

I am getting some Black Frizzle Cochins in the spring. Are they a good pet breed? Should I let them roam? Or should I just build a run? I need all the info on them you can give me... thanks.


P.S.- Can they go in with bigger chickens or no?

 

[Xtradust]

Well, I don't know much about Frizzles, but I've got eight of them in the brooder. I got them from Privett Hatchery as a "Frizzle assortment".

By their new feathers, I can see that I have four frizzled and four flat-feathered.

They say 25% are flat-feathered, but they're cool either way.

Matt

 

[ozark hen]

Now this sounds like a chicken I would like to have...where do I get some???

 

[Haviris]

We have one! Traded some barred rocks and got him, two white cochins, and a red cochin. We joked about him being the ugly one, But I really think he's cute, moreso now then when we first got him (at 4 weeks), not sure if it's a he or she, but I suspect he. I would say based on ours they are really nice pets. Fairly calm and not at all flighty! Ours is in a pen at my mom's, but if I brought him home with me he'd get to free range in my fenced yard. I would think properly introduced they'd be fine with bigger chickens, my EE hen treated them like her babies when they were little. He's been in with her and a meat breed chicken, and they all got along great.

 

[Carole AM]

We have a pair also. The main thing is NOT to breed frizzle to frizzle though! I have a black frizzle rooster I can pair with a blue hen, so that the chicks will be 1/2 black, and 1/2 blue; with a good chance of frizzles.

 

[d_rooster]

Here is a pic of my black frizzled cochin bantam rooster.

He moves around very slowly (waddles) and is not a great flyer. He's a lover, not a fighter. I imagine he would be easy pickings for a predator. My little guy stays in the chicken pen 24/7.

 

[Xtradust]

Okay, here are my chicks. They are 12 days old...

First pic is of the White Frizzle.

Second pic is of a Black Flat-feathered next to the Black Frizzle.

Third is the Red Frizzle with a White Flat-feather.

I got them from Privett Hatchery and I have no idea how they breed them, but they are very healthy and hopefully I beat the odds on Hens vs. Roos...
Matt

 

[mdbucks]

First I would like to say FRIZZLES are not real chickens!!!!!

That said there are 3 of them that are at my house, definaltely not mine they belong to DD. They are extremely friendly, mine(I mean those that live here) will come up to you when you go out in the yard. Mine free range with the REAL chickens and have had no problems. they wobble when they run, and look like a chicken that has been pulled through a rat hole backwards.

 

[fdnick]

There is a Chicken breeder here who specilizes in frizzles, she frizzles all kinds of "real chickens".. HAHA

 

[fdnick]

forgot here is her website she isRamona at Iwans Poultry

http://sinbad99029.tripod.com/id1.html

Denna