Beautiful birds, wow. I used to have one black bantam Cochin named Xander, who never had anything but big hens, Orps and others way larger than he was. He kept my Partridge Brahma cockerels in line, ruled the roost, had the best, deep crow for a little guy. I called him The Munchkin Dictator. He passed at just 4 1/2 years old. In fact, we had a lavender bantam Cochin hen who passed before I had Xander who only lived with the big birds, including the roosters who never bothered her. After years of breeding groups and keeping big roosters separated, having the "dumber than a box of rocks" Belgian D'Anver roosters and the hens who don't lay, I plan to go back to a mixed fun flock of bantam Cochins and maybe a few Easter Egger hens thrown in for variety, but the only roosters will be the little men. I missed our Xander so much. People used to laugh at him herding the lanky, scruffy dinosaur-like Brahma youngsters around. Such a fun guy. Just a hatchery boy, side sprigs on his comb and all.
I have not had hatchery birds in years and I almost hate to do it, thought about incubating bantam Cochin eggs, but the Post Office is not very reliable these days. Love the Birchens and those bobtails, wow, never heard of those!
I have not had hatchery birds in years and I almost hate to do it, thought about incubating bantam Cochin eggs, but the Post Office is not very reliable these days. Love the Birchens and those bobtails, wow, never heard of those!
do you guys ever feel like some color feather out slower than others or is it just me? Like lavender, I’ve gotten several sets of day old lavenders but I’ve never been able to get at least a pair raised to breed 
these are my babies 
the rooster is Danno. His girlfriends aren’t named 
although collectively this flock is known as The Punks so I guess kinda named 
I thought that’s what you had but wanted to make sure LOL
