Cochin Thread!!!

[joanie_maine]

The frizzle guy looks a bit frazzled

I think you have a bit of work to do to improve type and feather feet. I'd toss in a really good roo, hatch some eggs and them keep the best pullets.

But that also depends on what you want to do with your birds. Show or just enjoy them in your coop?

hello i asked previously about my cochins and was told they were to young to tell so i have waited a bit..i am planning on getting some hatching eggs from a nice breeder to improve what i have but wanted to know what you thought of my bantam cochins. Also do you believe my "frizzle" could be a frazzle? they all hatched in september of last year.excuse me for the mud...its been raining for a few days...

mottled hen (name: rags)

rags from above

Bell from the side

bell from the rear
Bell from front

Rags and Bell

Sally from the side

Sally again from the side



this one is Dolly, had a slight run in with lice...and is regrowing rump feathers but i would still like to know your thoughts
dolly

Holly

holly

Punk rock (frizzle) and his counterpart Ash i'm not asking for him (ash) to be evaluated as he is being rehomed.


sry for so many photos but i wanted to show them as best i could...

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

hello i asked previously about my cochins and was told they were to young to tell so i have waited a bit..i am planning on getting some hatching eggs from a nice breeder to improve what i have but wanted to know what you thought of my bantam cochins. Also do you believe my "frizzle" could be a frazzle? they all hatched in september of last year.excuse me for the mud...its been raining for a few days...

mottled hen (name: rags)

rags from above

Bell from the side

bell from the rear
Bell from front

Rags and Bell

Sally from the side

Sally again from the side



this one is Dolly, had a slight run in with lice...and is regrowing rump feathers but i would still like to know your thoughts
dolly

Holly

holly

Punk rock (frizzle) and his counterpart Ash i'm not asking for him (ash) to be evaluated as he is being rehomed.


sry for so many photos but i wanted to show them as best i could...

The frizzle guy looks a bit frazzled

I think you have a bit of work to do to improve type and feather feet. I'd toss in a really good roo, hatch some eggs and them keep the best pullets.

But that also depends on what you want to do with your birds. Show or just enjoy them in your coop?

I have to agree with joanie-maine. What is your goal with these? If they are just going to be eye candy and pets then enjoy. If the goal is showing then you have a lot of work ahead of you.. The self Blue leg color is not correct. I can't tell eye color on any of them. The best typed one appears to have shafting. A good quality Black male will help all of these improve.

 

[WarrenHound]

I have to agree with joanie-maine. What is your goal with these? If they are just going to be eye candy and pets then enjoy. If the goal is showing then you have a lot of work ahead of you.. The self Blue leg color is not correct. I can't tell eye color on any of them. The best typed one appears to have shafting. A good quality Black male will help all of these improve.

ok could i hear faults and pro's on each? i would like to produce SOME show Q.
as for the feet i don't know that they are shown at their best right now due to now 4 days of solid rain and thus a large quantity of mud.i am asking mainly about aboe the feet right now.

ADD: also no shafting that would be the flash on the camera.

 

[chickobsessed]

These are some of the chicks i hatched in Oct. They are interesting colors. Not sure what they would be considered.

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[chickobsessed]

Here are the other pictures

 

[thecochincoop]

He is cute!! Now (I am new at this, please be patient) what all colors could you breed him with?

i would say only gold laced or blue laced red. I don't think the other colors will breed well with them, perhaps partridge, but idk what kind of patterning would come out of it. I do get blue partridges out of the crosses

 

[thecochincoop]

I love the color on this guy. no idea what it would be but it's pretty

These are some of the chicks i hatched in Oct. They are interesting colors. Not sure what they would be considered.

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[just2rosey]

I am feeling disappointed in all of my new mottled stock. Some of them are showing really nice type, but every single bird has red leakage coming in.

This is probably a DQ, isn't it? I have a very old SOP and mottled isn't in it. I need to shop for a new one. How hard will the leakage be to breed out if I cross them with stock from another source that has no leakage?
Thanks for any advice.

 

[Sanna]

This guy's a looker

 

[HooverHenHouse]

Is there a barred cochin thread (preferbly bantam), I keep browsing and can't find anything. Would love to see and read more about this color.

Also is there a frizzle thread anyone has a link to? (...I'm assuming there is, but comp. is being slow and not loading all the pages quickly at the moment.
I just bought the sister to my smooth barred pullet, the new one is a frizzle..She has some filling out to do..not as round as her sister, would like to compare her to others.