Cochin Thread!!!

[shay20]

This is my Rolly Polly Tomatoo

 

[hippichick]

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Well, I actually did it! Just with one bird - they can see their own reflection in the silver, and it spooks them a little at first. Maybe serving their meals in crystal dishes would be more ideal?

http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/Sweetfolly-Annarie/SilerPlatterMeals.jpg

austinhart123 - Thanks! I have a little flock of them going now (just got my first Blue Mottleds last month), and I've got a deal in the works to get some hatching eggs in a few weeks from a completely unrelated flock so I'll have some different blood to play with in the spring too.

These guys all came from alwayscochins and theimis67 here on BYC, and between what the two of them told me when I bought them, I believe their background is mostly Jamie Matts. I know Keith (alwayscochins) had one of the hens I ended up buying shipped directly from Jamie.

They're all molting like mad right now, so they don't look their best:

http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/Sweetfolly-Annarie/BlueCochinFlock.jpg

Coopa Cabana - I saw where you'd posted that question on the Cochins Rule board! I figured I'd have a better shot of getting a quick reply on here since I know Tom drops in pretty often - plus, I thought I'd ask here, instead of privately by e-mail, in case anyone else wanted to know!

They're beautiful, Annarie.

 

[Sweetfolly]

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No, I don't think the amount of white they have as juveniles correlates to how much they'll have when they're mature. I'm not 100% sure though - I've only raised one Mottle from a chick so far, and he started out all black with a white breast, and he's just now molting and starting to look a little bit Mottled (which is what I've also seen in people's pictures of Mottled chicks and juveniles - dark with white breasts, and then mostly dark, and then more white mottling after their first year). I think they tend to get more white with age too (or am I thinking of age-white in self-colored ducks

?). But, someone like thecochincoop or BlueMottie could probably tell you for sure. I don't know what I'm talking about half the time.

 

[dak]

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No, I don't think the amount of white they have as juveniles correlates to how much they'll have when they're mature. I'm not 100% sure though - I've only raised one Mottle from a chick so far, and he started out all black with a white breast, and he's just now molting and starting to look a little bit Mottled (which is what I've also seen in people's pictures of Mottled chicks and juveniles - dark with white breasts, and then mostly dark, and then more white mottling after their first year). I think they tend to get more white with age too (or am I thinking of age-white in self-colored ducks

?). But, someone like thecochincoop or BlueMottie could probably tell you for sure. I don't know what I'm talking about half the time.

This is a 6 week old LF pullet. Is this juvenile white feathering or a possible mottled?

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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No, I don't think the amount of white they have as juveniles correlates to how much they'll have when they're mature. I'm not 100% sure though - I've only raised one Mottle from a chick so far, and he started out all black with a white breast, and he's just now molting and starting to look a little bit Mottled (which is what I've also seen in people's pictures of Mottled chicks and juveniles - dark with white breasts, and then mostly dark, and then more white mottling after their first year). I think they tend to get more white with age too (or am I thinking of age-white in self-colored ducks

?). But, someone like thecochincoop or BlueMottie could probably tell you for sure. I don't know what I'm talking about half the time.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/51721_8-5-2010_dottie_and_garrett_pullett_021.jpg

This is a 6 week old LF pullet. Is this juvenile white feathering or a possible mottled?

I Love that henny!

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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Well, I actually did it! Just with one bird - they can see their own reflection in the silver, and it spooks them a little at first. Maybe serving their meals in crystal dishes would be more ideal?

http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/Sweetfolly-Annarie/SilerPlatterMeals.jpg

Too Cute!!

Now I'm gonna have to keep my birds away from the computer . . . I'm in big trouble if they see this.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

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I absolutely adore her!!! <sigh> One day I WILL get myself some darn white cochins....I swear I will. GRRRRRRRRRRRRrr

Laurie

 

[TennesseeTruly]

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Oh Shay, He's spectacular!! I love him!!! He's drool worthy!!

Laurie

 

[georgialee]

I hatched a bunch of lavender chicks about 9 weeks ago and it looks like all but one are roos.

BUT I have high hopes for this one little guy (in the back of the pic). He has really nice foot feathers and nice soft downy feathers already growing in. All the others I hatched look like the one towards the front of the pic... they have a loooong way to go before they really look like cochins.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

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That one in the middle if definitely a little rooster.