Chicken Breed Focus - Cochin

[Lunar]

For LF Cochins, do you put them in a covered pen or can they free-range inside a fence of 5 feet? I want to allow them to roam inside my fence but didn’t know if they would try to fly over. I have always had bantams but I really want to try some LF birds and Cochins are my starting point. Thx.

I am also looking for lavender Cochin chicks if anyone has some for sale.

 

[Ladybird CA]

LF Cochins are usually too heavy to fly.

 

[onvirginiasoil]

Any Cochin breeders within 100 miles of NW North Carolina??

I'm within 100 miles of you, but my half-grown Partridge Cochin pair aren't yet old enough to be birthing babies. She'll likely try to brood in the spring, however. I am not a "breeder" usually, but if I know someone wants the babies, I might let the hen brood her eggs. Or give you eggs for an incubator.

Given that I'm a little north of you (meaning both of us live in mountainous areas where only the crows make good time), you may find it simpler to order from mypetchicken.com. But if you'd prefer to see the parents, that kind of thing, and intend to keep them as pets, I'd consider it.

 

[onvirginiasoil]

For LF Cochins, do you put them in a covered pen or can they free-range inside a fence of 5 feet? I want to allow them to roam inside my fence but didn’t know if they would try to fly over. I have always had bantams but I really want to try some LF birds and Cochins are my starting point. Thx.

I am also looking for lavender Cochin chicks if anyone has some for sale.

I am very close to you, but my Cochins are Partridge, not lavender. However, I will check around where I live to see if anyone in the local "chicken community" has them. I know a young woman who might well have lavender chicks, but not until early spring.

 

[onvirginiasoil]

I'm within 100 miles of you, but my half-grown Partridge Cochin pair aren't yet old enough to be birthing babies. She'll likely try to brood in the spring, however. I am not a "breeder" usually, but if I know someone wants the babies, I might let the hen brood her eggs. Or give you eggs for an incubator.

Given that I'm a little north of you (meaning both of us live in mountainous areas where only the crows make good time), you may find it simpler to order from mypetchicken.com. But if you'd prefer to see the parents, that kind of thing, and intend to keep them as pets, I'd consider it.

 

[onvirginiasoil]

For LF Cochins, do you put them in a covered pen or can they free-range inside a fence of 5 feet? I want to allow them to roam inside my fence but didn’t know if they would try to fly over. I have always had bantams but I really want to try some LF birds and Cochins are my starting point. Thx.

I am also looking for lavender Cochin chicks if anyone has some for sale.

Cochins are not going to fly. I have large heavy breeds because there are so many hawks where I live (and if you're in Church Hill, I imagine you have them too). And all my chickens are free-range (but locked in their house at night). None of the grown chickens I have fly, and my Cochins didn't attempt it even when they were quite young. This is a very laid-back breed.

 

[Chris-n-Kate]

When do cochin cockerels start to crow?

 

[4 Georgia Hens]

These are some of my Cochins! I do have a frizzled boy and some eggs under a broody. I love these bantam birds! They are little angels!

 

[ChemicalchiCkns]

CoChins are such sweate cycens, my first favorite "Softy" and then the later unnamed Partridge that would hide under the next boxes to Lay.

 

[Chicken_girl17]

Just wanted to show one of my coaches who decided to go into a photo shoot mode LOL