Cochin Bantams and Frizzle Cochin Bantams!!

[jarvis]

Gotta love broodys =)
My blue frizzle (lola) and my birchen(gretchen) frizzle sharing a nest All three of my cohcins want broody within a few days of each other this year! Had 2 eggs hatch so far but I stole them away to keep them from leaving the nest before all that are going to hatch do hatch.

 

[kimthom66]

Interested if anyone here can help me, This is my first experience with hatching eggs and I have 6 beauties that I am trying to figure out if they are pullets or roos. These chicks are from a Calico Rooster covering a blue, mottled and calico hens.

 

[shahtir101]

Interested if anyone here can help me, This is my first experience with hatching eggs and I have 6 beauties that I am trying to figure out if they are pullets or roos. These chicks are from a Calico Rooster covering a blue, mottled and calico hens.

So cute!

 

[Marthab1953]

Interested if anyone here can help me, This is my first experience with hatching eggs and I have 6 beauties that I am trying to figure out if they are pullets or roos. These chicks are from a Calico Rooster covering a blue, mottled and calico hens.

1st picture looks like a boy and a girl.
3rd picture is a barred boy not mottled, and a girl
and last picture the blues look like also boy and girl. If the 2nd picture is the same chicks as the 1st picture that one actually looks more like 2 boys.

I could be wrong on the sex but that is what I would guess by the pictures. The 3rd is definitely a barred.

 

[kimthom66]

Is it possible to get a barred without a barred hen?
I do have one hen that has a barred head and blue body perhaps that's the mom of that one? I'm hoping the small black and the small blue are pullets as those are my favorites but the Roos may be harder to get rid of?

 

[Marthab1953]

Is it possible to get a barred without a barred hen?
I do have one hen that has a barred head and blue body perhaps that's the mom of that one? I'm hoping the small black and the small blue are pullets as those are my favorites but the Roos may be harder to get rid of?

The Blue hen with the barred head would do it and beings it is the hen, all her boy offspring would be barred and her solid offspring from her would be girls. I thought the blue chick that looks like a boy is also barred. the white spot on his head indicates that. He may only have some barring like his mother.

 

[kimthom66]

The Blue hen with the barred head would do it and beings it is the hen, all her boy offspring would be barred and her solid offspring from her would be girls. I thought the blue chick that looks like a boy is also barred. the white spot on his head indicates that. He may only have some barring like his mother.

Thank you for your help, the barred one I had suspected would be a roo his legs are a bit denser too do you have any idea if the small black one will stay black or will it be mottled? She was hatched last as so another reason why she is smaller and because she hatched last there should be no way that the Mottled hen laid that egg as she was separated hatching her own clutch during that time.

 

[Marthab1953]

Thank you for your help, the barred one I had suspected would be a roo his legs are a bit denser too do you have any idea if the small black one will stay black or will it be mottled? She was hatched last as so another reason why she is smaller and because she hatched last there should be no way that the Mottled hen laid that egg as she was separated hatching her own clutch during that time.

If the Calico Rooster is the father and the Mottled Hen is the mother than it could get Mottling show up as it grows out, sometimes if it is not showing it can still feather in Mottled after its molts. You never know. I have a hen that was red for 2 years with just one millie spot on its whole body, then this January after its second molt it was totally millie patterned.

I will try to find the pictures of later, Her transformation was amazing.

 

[kimthom66]

What I was trying to say that I didn't say well, is that the Mottled hen I have was separated from my flock so her eggs would not have been in this hatch, so can I get an all black from a Blue mom? , Also these two are a bit older hatched April 1 - do you have any guesses as to the sex of these two?

 

[WVduckchick]

Darker one looks male to me, lighter one female, but I'm no expert.

I would also like to jump in with a question - I have 6 eggs developing wonderfully on day 9. Daddy is a blue frizzle, mom is a cuckoo. I know the males will come out white head dot and be barred/cuckoo, females should be solid, right? But I don't know what colors this could produce, plus the frizzle factor. Anyone have any insight for me? Is blue barred frizzled a possiblity?