Cochin Thread!!!

[Fancy Feathers]

You made that picture look like a really cool painting! Love it!

 

[Funky Feathers]

Thanks. I did this one of Mellie too.

 

[Fancy Feathers]

Very cool!

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Are you talking about me??

 

[lilcrow]

Are you talking about me??

Yes Gail, we were talking about you!

In a very good way of course.

 

[wildwoodcochins]

Hoping I can get some help on here. I have a blue mottled cockerel that has never been a healthy bird from about 3 months on. At one point I thought I would have to put him down. He has trouble walking and falls down a lot. A few weeks ago he started improving, is walking much better and has put on better weight. I have supplemented his water with electrolytes and vitamins a couple of times a week. I feed him medicated chick starter, he has been wormed and occasionally given antibiotics.
Does anyone have any ideas on what to give this little guy to help him be a healthy bird? He is the brother to my blue mottled pullet I lost to a wasp sting.

Not great pictures, my camera is acting up?

 

[Funky Feathers]

Hoping I can get some help on here. I have a blue mottled cockerel that has never been a healthy bird from about 3 months on. At one point I thought I would have to put him down. He has trouble walking and falls down a lot. A few weeks ago he started improving, is walking much better and has put on better weight. I have supplemented his water with electrolytes and vitamins a couple of times a week. I feed him medicated chick starter, he has been wormed and occasionally given antibiotics.
Does anyone have any ideas on what to give this little guy to help him be a healthy bird? He is the brother to my blue mottled pullet I lost to a wasp sting.

It sounds like possibly Marek's disease. :/

 

[StacyTN]

Posted on FB, so some may see this there but I am soooooo excited but also at a cross roads as to what to do right now (this time of yr)



WOOHOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!! One of my bantam cochin girls is laying eggs as of two days ago!!!!!! Pretty sure it's this girl in the pic. Soooooooooo excited, 99% sure they are fertile (daddy could be barred and/or blue molted (Buddha = avatar)) and want to leave eggs in nest and/or hold a few for incubator BUT I just really don't want to deal with little ones right now. I know they will be beautiful babies, what to do, what to do?????



p.s.if i do decide to go with trying to hatch some..... the first two eggs (laid wed & thurs.) have been put in the fridge, would it be too late to take them back out to her nest? or should I just wait for her to lay others and see if she will sit on them?

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

Posted on FB, so some may see this there but I am soooooo excited but also at a cross roads as to what to do right now (this time of yr)



WOOHOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!! One of my bantam cochin girls is laying eggs as of two days ago!!!!!! Pretty sure it's this girl in the pic. Soooooooooo excited, 99% sure they are fertile (daddy could be barred and/or blue molted (Buddha = avatar)) and want to leave eggs in nest and/or hold a few for incubator BUT I just really don't want to deal with little ones right now. I know they will be beautiful babies, what to do, what to do?????



p.s.if i do decide to go with trying to hatch some..... the first two eggs (laid wed & thurs.) have been put in the fridge, would it be too late to take them back out to her nest? or should I just wait for her to lay others and see if she will sit on them?

Those in the fridge are no good for hatching. !st eggs laid are rarely fertile. I sure won't hatch eggs this time of year. If the pullet does it then fine but personally I would not use an incubator unless I wanted to deal with chicks in the house for 4-6 weeks. That's just me.

The bird in your avatar and the above picture sure are nice looking birds.

 

[StacyTN]

Those in the fridge are no good for hatching. !st eggs laid are rarely fertile. I sure won't hatch eggs this time of year. If the pullet does it then fine but personally I would not use an incubator unless I wanted to deal with chicks in the house for 4-6 weeks. That's just me.

The bird in your avatar and the above picture sure are nice looking birds.

Thank you for the advice, opinion & compliment.
Totally new in the chicken world and this girl is one of the first 6 I bought back on June 18th, she was 3 weeks at the time.

So, even, though I have seen quite a bit of action (you know what I mean

) for at least a couple of months or more, you are saying that most likely they still wouldn't be fertile?

and yes, even if a chance of being fertile, we've decided we would like to see what she could/would do. Also, if we did and by chance she did have any hatch, we would probably pull her & the babies into our heated brooding/grow out pen built as a seperate room in our large coop. I would be a nervous wreck to leave her & the babies to the elements of a none heated but very well insulated coop, plus the other 11 roommates she rooms with.
just so anxious to see some of own babies start hatching and was really surprised to already see an egg in their coop