Cochin Thread!!!

[cieraphoto]

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I think it might be a pullet. But it doesn't look like a golden laced. Where did you get the chick from?
This is what my golden laced looked like at 5 weeks.

Pullet

Cockerel

 

[ki4got]

Here are some pics

honestly I don't think that's a purebred cochin at all...
cochins should have feathering on the middle toe as well as the outside one.
here's a few pics showing cochins of various ages (only ones I could find showing feet)

 

[ki4got]

ok while i'm at it... I have a question about this little guy...


when I took the pic (day old) I thought maybe he just had his eye closed... then I realized that he appears to have been born blind.

anyone have any experience with raising blind chicks? he finds the food just fine, but I have to show him the water a few times a day.

hoping once he gets a bit bigger he'll figure it out on his own.

any thoughts on this guy? (he's also unknown color at the moment, still)

 

[LE Chickens]

My husband is currently build our second coop We have 10 acres in Loganville but we already have 4 Roosters. I would be interested in purchasinga few cochin hens when they become available, my parents live in Cleveland Ga so I pass though Gainesville all the time. Please let me know if you would be willing to sell any hens when they become available, Thanks

 

[Rolltidern]

I think it might be a pullet. But it doesn't look like a golden laced. Where did you get the chick from?
This is what my golden laced looked like at 5 weeks.

Pullet

Cockerel

Wow, our birds look very different! Yours looks like the adult birds the person who sold them to me. This birds color & feathering is starting to look alot like the EE chicks we have. Her wing feathers looked alot like your birds @ first but now changing. I'm ok if it's not purebred, just mainly concerned about it being a hen. My son loves this bird & as long as she lays eggs, that's fine with me!!

 

[Lacrystol]

I would wait until he's done growing... my reds all had partridge type markings until they turned about 8 weeks and got the next set of feathers in. now they're all nearly solid red... many of my milles do that too. then again I have partridge-based mille fleur lines. they seem to have partridge type markings as youngsters that fade out as they grow.

like kepiru for example... before and after...

OH he's gorgeous, I hope mine turn out like that. LOL, I'm not seeing any white in mine..

 

[joanie_maine]

Just an update on the 4 I got at the sale last weekend. The boys have been in one of my breeder pins this week and the girls in the tractor with my other bantam hen's.
Everyone is doing well the girls have started laying again. Even the hen that had been breed to the point of no feathers seems to have a lil fuzz coming back.

I am curious as to what color you would say they are I was thinking buff but the boys are really yellow/gold color.
I am also interested in getting some more of these birds some quality birds. I believe it may be late in the season for such a request but if anyone would part with some I'd be interested.
Thanks Bryant

Might be called buff.....

 

[moomoodiddy]

ok while i'm at it... I have a question about this little guy... when I took the pic (day old) I thought maybe he just had his eye closed... then I realized that he appears to have been born blind. anyone have any experience with raising blind chicks? he finds the food just fine, but I have to show him the water a few times a day. hoping once he gets a bit bigger he'll figure it out on his own. any thoughts on this guy? (he's also unknown color at the moment, still)

he looks black but may be a dark blue i hate to say this but i usaully let nature take its course only the strongest should survive but if u want to help make sure nobody is bothering him amd make sure the pen is easy for him to navigate no obsticales in the way and always keep the layout the same he will learn where everything is

 

[ki4got]

Quote: I would think black too, but all the blacks I've ever hatched had white/yellow on them also. it's possible he's from my mottled, but again he would have white/yellow.

and yeah I usually let nature take it's course, but this little guy's trying so hard. if I talk to him in 'broody voice' tapping the food he finds that and the same if I tap the water bowl, so hopefully he'll learn the layout. it's just he's sooooo teeny, he can't reach the water unless it's right at the top. at almost a week old, he's bigger than he was at hatch, but still under 2" tall unless he stretches real hard. LOL hoping I can figure out what breeding produced him and the other 2 I hatched that looked just like him. both of the others were also defective and died within days of hatching. I do NOT want to repeat that breeding if I can help it. but with everyone free ranging, who knows what went into him.

 

[sbucciarel]

I'm so excited. I got a barred roo, a barred hen and two buff hens from Tom Roebuck a couple of months ago or a little less. They are older (semi-retirees) so getting some eggs has been slow. At first the eggs weren't fertile. I trimmed them up a bit and fixed that problem. Then some more eggs were early quitters. Finally, yesterday .... I got this gorgeous little chick. All I know is that his Dad is barred and Mom either buff or barred. Can't wait to watch him/her grow.