Buff Barred Cochin Thread

[Fancy Feathers]

 

[ChickieWickies]

I don't know how anyone cannot LOVE Peanut Butter. He's beautiful!!! My son is hoping to mate his barred cockerel with his sister's buff hen to make his own.

In science class here they learn genetics my "creating" aliens. He's looking forward to real-life genetics and making Peanut Butter!!

 

[County Boy]

I don't know how anyone cannot LOVE Peanut Butter. He's beautiful!!! My son is hoping to mate his barred cockerel with his sister's buff hen to make his own.

In science class here they learn genetics my "creating" aliens. He's looking forward to real-life genetics and making Peanut Butter!!

Goodluck to your son's project. I love Peanut Butter. Right now he my brother is hatching eggs from him. My brother is 8 though and since I let him do this he is hooked on them. It's nice having little kids get interested. I can't thank Lynne enough for PB though. He is just great.

 

[Fancy Feathers]

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I have 4 buff barred pullets growing up, numerous black barred roos with a bit of buff in them but nothing great. The type on the boys is awesome, the girls, not so much. The boys have horrible combs and I think I know which hen produces that so I may not be able to keep any of the boys, not that they are nice enough really but I had hoped to cross back to the buff ladies from them, although Dynamite is still the best one ever!

 

[County Boy]

I have 4 buff barred pullets growing up, numerous black barred roos with a bit of buff in them but nothing great. The type on the boys is awesome, the girls, not so much. The boys have horrible combs and I think I know which hen produces that so I may not be able to keep any of the boys, not that they are nice enough really but I had hoped to cross back to the buff ladies from them, although Dynamite is still the best one ever!

Dynamite is one stunning boy. What hens do you have in with him? Right now since Honey is broody I through a splash in with PB to keep him company. I'm debating on hatching from them.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Dynamite is by himself right now since the hens are broody on air! One hen, Melon, actually is broody on top of a wire cage! Proves that throwing them in a wire cage with air underneath them will stop broodiness. I think I will toss her in with my red roo and maybe the other one in with the barred roo and break the broodiness so I can go back to hatching.

Meanwhile I will probably put Dana back in with Dynamite and hatch from them a while. Doug has had her but he rotates back and forth between two pens, one with the barred hens and one with a friend's buff hen he got from Tom Roebuck.

My barred pullets are not very barred yet but I may have that remedied in another 18 months. Just gotta stick the right birds together.

 

[Fancy Feathers]

Setting my first Buff Barred eggs since last year tonight!

& next time I'll set eggs from this pen; Sammy and Woody in with a BB hen and my Red frizzle hen.

 

[cows and chickens]

Could someone point me in the direction of standard barred Cochin? Thanks!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I need to get some updated photos of my up and coming kids.
I hatched all they would lay but unfortunately the hens wanted to have sons so I have plenty of those and only 3 girls. One girl is nicely patterned but I expect the barring to fade as she matures. I am still setting all the eggs they lay, which is very few since I am down to 4 hens. Dana, the buff barred from Lynne; Barbara, the black barred on loan to me from my friend as well as another black barred hen I got in a trade. And I have a buff hen, Melon, from Doug Bishop.
I put Melon in with a roo I hatched from the crosses I made early on so I can expand some of the genetics while still keeping pattern and type.