All those Bantam Cochins are beauties! I raise Mottled Bantam Cochins. Have 21 out of 24 (at least) fertile eggs in the incubator currently. Have had chickens forever...but, never Bantams of any kind. I LOVE these little guys. I am trying to decide what to do with these chicks, assuming they hatch, of course. I live in western WV, and the market here is more for your standard size chickens. If I do decide to sell them, hopefully I will find the market is there. The Grand-daughter is putting them in the fair (4H project).
So, my question is, I have 6 mottled (black) hens/1 rooster. I also put a blue rooster with them, along with a buff hen. Should I be doing this? Should I be raising straight mottled, etc.? Will I get blue mottled by breeding the black mottled girls with the blue roo? What will I get by breeding either the black mottled or the blue roo to the buff hen? Will they be 'weird' looking?
So, my question is, I have 6 mottled (black) hens/1 rooster. I also put a blue rooster with them, along with a buff hen. Should I be doing this? Should I be raising straight mottled, etc.? Will I get blue mottled by breeding the black mottled girls with the blue roo? What will I get by breeding either the black mottled or the blue roo to the buff hen? Will they be 'weird' looking?
We call them ballerina chicks at this stage...it looks like they are wearing little tutus!! 
Now the chick pictures; I'm posting them as small b/c there's two of each chick (and I have a few more of my Frizzle Cochin Bantam) PS: Don't be fooled by the names, we don't think the genders of all the names are accurate; we named them according to size and personality when they were about a week old. 
