Cochin Thread!!!

[AndyCap]

Inspired by Craig i am going to make a line of Silver Pencilled, i have never seen any in a decent condition here, they are mostly white chested with a bit of lacing.

Plan is to get a colmbian hen, and put my partridge rooster over her, then keep a split male from the f1, and put him over my partridge pullets, that should give me a decent chance of silver pencilled, if i hatch enough. might even use the split male over a columbian to get a line of buff columbian and columbian going.

I wish more people were working on laced/pencilled cochin bantams.

 

[flowerchicks]

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[COLOR=000000]Cochin Breed Characteristics[/COLOR] [COLOR=000000]Bantams - . Weight: Cock: 30 oz Hen: 26 oz Cockerel: 26 oz Pullet: 24oz[/COLOR] At 15 weeks yours are right on track. Cochins do not grow as quickly as some other breeds. A pullet is under 1 and a hen is 1 and older

Thanks! They are just so much smaller than I expected them to be and a lot lighter than my silkie that is the same age. I absolutely LOVE my little cochins, Cinnamon and Nutmeg. They are inseparable and very sweet. And to the person who was asking how high to put the perch, mine have a clipped wing (I have a dog that would love for a chicken to fly over the fence), and they are still able to fly from their "perch" in the livingroom, which is about 3 1/2 high to the top of my husbands head. They are very friendly

 

[annewandering]

Do the rooster bantams, mille fleur, show the white feathers earlier than the pullets? I have four little month old babies. The roosters are showing both larger combs, red, and white feathers. The females show no white at all.
Is there hope the pullets will develop the white?


The two pullets top and left. The center rooster has the most
white feathers of any of the four.


Blurry but you can see there is white on both.


Its hard to see the white on the bottom left rooster in this photo
but its does have white. The two pullets, top and bottom show no white at all.

 

[ki4got]

Do the rooster bantams, mille fleur, show the white feathers earlier than the pullets? I have four little month old babies. The roosters are showing both larger combs, red, and white feathers. The females show no white at all.
Is there hope the pullets will develop the white?


The two pullets top and left. The center rooster has the most
white feathers of any of the four.


Blurry but you can see there is white on both.


Its hard to see the white on the bottom left rooster in this photo
but its does have white. The two pullets, top and bottom show no white at all.

not really... the chicks in the pic above, only 2 were roos. one was Kepiru


and the other turned out to be this guy...

 

[geweldig23]

I haven't been on here to post in quite some time after the site was updated- it was super slow on my phone. But I thought I would get back into the forum and start by posting a couple of pictures of the cockerel I've kept right now. He's about 8 months.

 

[AndyCap]

This is my ever curious four week old buff cochin named Puffzilla

Very cute, is it your only cochin at the moment?

 

[Jharper]

What do you think of my Cochin bantam roo. He is close to three months old. He has a bun tail and long feet feathers and is close to the ground. I got him from ideal. I think he looks pretty good to be from hatchery stock. I have a show QUALITY hen and she is look OMG scraggly right now. She has broken the feathers on her feet and is molting from being broody.

 

[CyndiChick]

Here's pics of the roo we were sold as a blue cochin bantam chick, which doesn't look straight cochin to me! His name is Al. And also of my black cochin bantam roo, Capone. (The EE in the background is Pretty Girl)






Definitely not a cochin tail, right? LOL









So I'm guessing since some of the other chicks we got at the same place were barnyard mixes, that perhaps the blue is a bantam cochin barnyard mix?

 

[Jharper]

Here's pics of the roo we were sold as a blue cochin bantam chick, which doesn't look straight cochin to me! His name is Al. And also of my black cochin bantam roo, Capone. (The EE in the background is Pretty Girl) Definitely not a cochin tail, right? LOL So I'm guessing since some of the other chicks we got at the same place were barnyard mixes, that perhaps the blue is a bantam cochin barnyard mix?

The first one is definitely not a cochin. The las one looks to be, but it has something wrong with its comb.

 

[CyndiChick]

Hmm... I see now his comb is different than others in this thread. So neither would be good for breeding purposes, to breed with the ones I got from Ideal? I am going to have to get a barred roo anyway, so I guess I will just get black and blues as well