Cochin Thread!!!

[davony's chicks]

My first baby cochins

Cute babies! Congratulations!

 

[Chickengirl47]

Chickens look silly after it rains especially Silkies!

 

[ki4got]

Quote: oh! i'd be so excited too! unfortunately the 1 time i got eggs from her, the usps was not kind. so now i look for growing birds instead. tired of high hopes crashing... for other breeds/swaps, i'll take a chance, but not something i want so badly. LOL the other ones are likely to just go to the swaps with me anyways.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

The results are now in and posted for the Premier Cochins International All-Cochin Online Show:

http://www.cochinsint.com/winter-2013-show.html

 

[Funky Feathers]

I need to sell my Splash Roo (bantam) and get a better one. Anyone want to make an offer?
He is 4 months old.

 

[mama2my4]

The results are now in and posted for the Premier Cochins International All-Cochin Online Show:

http://www.cochinsint.com/winter-2013-show.html

Congrats to all the winners!!

I notice "trim beak" was a common comment. How do you do this?

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

Congrats to all the winners!!

I notice "trim beak" was a common comment. How do you do this?

I use a nail clippers. Usually just a fingernail clipper and then I touch up the edges with an Emery board. I use the lower beak as the guide for what to trim. Better to trim a little too little than too much. It becomes second nature with practice.

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

But I did take pictures of my hatch I just put in the brooder.

Keep in mind I have no idea what these guys will turn out to be. I had one pen that had 3 columbian roos, 2 columbian hens, 3 slash hens and one roo, MF project hen, mottled hen, buff roo, 3 buff hens, silver penciled hen.
Another pen had silver penciled roo, silver penciled hen, 3 buff hens, black roo, black hen, bule roo and 2 blue hens.

So I have a lot of mixes. I will not keep any of these but I had the itch to incubate! I now have my pens seperated and only have what I mentioned above.

So here are the 23 babies in the brooder so far.





Not sure what this little chipmunk guy is.. I think it may be from the MF project girl and maybe a columbian roo.

Tony I love it. The chipmunk one looks like SP but too dark so probably will look Partridge. Well it is obvious your incubator is working corrrectly!

 

[mama2my4]

I use a nail clippers. Usually just a fingernail clipper and then I touch up the edges with an Emery board. I use the lower beak as the guide for what to trim. Better to trim a little too little than too much. It becomes second nature with practice.

Thank you!

 

[omaeve]

I file the beaks with good fingernail file.