Cochin bantams all colors! Please post your pics here, I’d love to see some beautiful birds

[CrazyCochin]

What a handsome rooster! He is gorgeous!

Sorry there’s so many 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

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[ShrekDawg]

What a handsome rooster! He is gorgeous!

Thank you

 

[ShrekDawg]

I’m a bit biased I think and have way more photos of Danno than any of my other birds I gotta get some updated pictures of the girls haha

 

[LindsaykayeBollinger]

Do you have a garage?
We used to keep chicks in a dog crate in the garage!

Oh goodness I wish. We bought this old farmhouse and we have a huge tobacco barn but it’s located about 10 feet from the trees and brush and we don’t farm tobacco lol. Beautiful barn but old and not fit for wintering small livestock. It’s all good though every year is a challenge for me to outsmart my friendly neighborhood raccoon

 

[CrazyCochin]

Oh goodness I wish. We bought this old farmhouse and we have a huge tobacco barn but it’s located about 10 feet from the trees and brush and we don’t farm tobacco lol. Beautiful barn but old and not fit for wintering small livestock. It’s all good though every year is a challenge for me to outsmart my friendly neighborhood raccoon

Wow!
Could you keep them in the house?

 

[LindsaykayeBollinger]

Thanks you guys, still new to this site(I don’t do Facebook, Twitter or any social media) and this is such a nice positive place to get out of my head and talk chickens(no one in my family or circle of friends has chickenS let alone pets at all). I’ve always thought chickens friends are the best friends

 

[LindsaykayeBollinger]

Wow!
Could you keep them in the house?

Ah I’ve done that for other babes but not big birds lol and I have quite a few

 

[CrazyCochin]

Ah I’ve done that for other babes but not big birds lol and I have quite a few

I am in LOVE!

I have one pullet sitting on two of the bantam cochin eggs! And the cool thing is, we have a Buff Brahma rooster, Red, the bantam Cochin, and Ezra, the barnyard mix boy! SO the babies could look like anything! It is going to be a surprise!

 

[CrazyCochin]

Well, we are darn glad to have you!
You won't find a better flock anywhere else but on BYC!

Thanks you guys, still new to this site(I don’t do Facebook, Twitter or any social media) and this is such a nice positive place to get out of my head and talk chickens(no one in my family or circle of friends has chickenS let alone pets at all). I’ve always thought chickens friends are the best friends

 

[speckledhen]

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!