Cochin Thread!!!

[Bantimna]

I'm sooooo happy to see Cochins they are my favorite breed. Thank you for starting this thread!

 

[KittyKelly]

I love this thread too. I love all my cochins!!! I don't have any SQ or anything but they are so sweet and good mommy's!

I have a question for the people who show their birds: How in the world do you keep their leg feathers from breaking and staying so clean and un-frayed??

 

[usschicago1]

 

[Felicia]

Everyones cochins are beautiful! I have been despertly searching for some SQ standard cochins, and have had no luck

pm if you have any chicks for sale please

 

[GypsyChic]

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Kitty, I keep our (5 acre lawn) mowed short for starters, and tha IS just the lawn! Plus we bathe regularly, which I think is important, and keep the bantams on soft footing when inside the building. I use sawdust that's a bit larger than average, and it allows the foot feathers to "expand" naturally. If I were to put my cochins out where my marans run, they would have a FIT! All are very prissy, even my roo, but I think that's just because we spoil them rotten!

 

[GypsyChic]

usschicago1 ...those are some beauties! Wow

Gypsy <--- (sigh)

 

[ChurpyChicken]

I have 5 cochins! Absoutley love them all! So beautiful natured, one comes sits on my knee every time I go in the garden. Brought 2 new ones the other day a white one called Snowy and a Splash one ? I believe and I called it Splash!! £12.50 a hen, I think was reasonable. The others I hatched out my beautiful little girl is brown, do they have a special recognised colour or anything? A black one which I think is a hen, its 5 months old nearly, no egg yet and no cockerel noises! And the other I'm beginning to think is a cockerel, its orange and black. Put some pictures below!!

 

[KittyKelly]

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Kitty, I keep our (5 acre lawn) mowed short for starters, and tha IS just the lawn! Plus we bathe regularly, which I think is important, and keep the bantams on soft footing when inside the building. I use sawdust that's a bit larger than average, and it allows the foot feathers to "expand" naturally. If I were to put my cochins out where my marans run, they would have a FIT! All are very prissy, even my roo, but I think that's just because we spoil them rotten!

Aww! I wonder...do they lay rotten eggs because you spoil them so much?? LOL

I love spoiling my birds.
Do they get grass stains on white feathers?? I have one white cochin roo...posting pics after they upload...
I've only ever bathed a chicken once! It was really fun and the roo actually seemed to enjoy it!
Thanks for replying.

I don't show any chickens.... YET... So I try to collect as much information as I can from BYC so when I do decide to show I will be prepared!

 

[KittyKelly]

I hope I'm allowed to post cochin crosses....but here are some pics!!!

This is one of 3 of my little black Cochin Silkie crosses. They are so adorable and very friendly.

and another

Here is my very small penciled girl....I got her for $3!!! Her name is Willow.

and Willow again....

Here is my Cochin Maran cross I love her colors.

 

[iluvmychicks]

I have a question for the people who show their birds: How in the world do you keep their leg feathers from breaking and staying so clean and un-frayed??

I keep mine on clean deep shavings and wire. Cochins naturally have pretty strong foot feathers, much stronger then my silkies, they hardly ever break foot feathers unless in a breeding pen or cockerels fighting with eachother. For that reason alone I don't keep my cochin cockerels together when they get of breeding age.

Shari​