Cochin Thread!!!

[lilcrow]

i have a bantam cochin and her faceis very dry and crackly
does anybody know...
a...why and
b...how to fix it

I'm going to guess mites. You can use Frontline to get rid of them.

 

[wildriverswolf90]

Mottled pair

silver laced pair

little red pullet

columbian roo?(i guess)

buff columbian pullet

smooth frizzle pullet(MF/Partridge)

smoothe frizzle pullet(Blue/Partridge)

 

[cieraphoto]

These girls are nothing to write home about, but I think they show how "round" a bantam cochin should be.

They could come to my house

 

[ki4got]

ok I don't get something... I keep seeing people say 'smooth frizzle' and pictures of non-frizzled birds...

my understanding is that the frizzle is a dominant gene, so if they're not frizzled, then they don't carry it. and breeding 2 non-frizzled birds won't ever give you frizzles. so either they are frizzles or they're normal cochins.

casey, care to hop in here and verify this please?

 

[PsycoPeep]

I actually thought you had to have 2 frizzle genes to make a frizzle. So smooth carrying frizz would make sense to me. But I'm not positive on that, just what I had heard from someone else.

 

[wildriverswolf90]

I have a rooster that carries no frizzle gene and hens that show the frizzle gene and get 50% frizzles.

I also have two birds that carry the frizzle gene, but their feathers aren't frizzled and they throw 1 out of 3 babies that frizzle out.

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

I have a rooster that carries no frizzle gene and hens that show the frizzle gene and get 50% frizzles.

I also have two birds that carry the frizzle gene, but their feathers aren't frizzled and they throw 1 out of 3 babies that frizzle out.

I could try to explain it but this site does an excellent job. www.thefrizzlesocietyofgreatbritain.co.uk

The heading for articles has great information that even I understood.

 

[heatherscooby77]

These girls are nothing to write home about, but I think they show how "round" a bantam cochin should be.

I think these two are nice also!

 

[Bleenie]

It was nice yesterday and I managed to get a couple pics of a few of the birds.

Frizzle Roo with his favorite lady, the showgirl.


Our first Cochin momma with her 3 babies. 2 belong to the frizz.EE but the brown(partridge i think) one is full Cochin, and frizzled!

 

[ki4got]

I actually thought you had to have 2 frizzle genes to make a frizzle. So smooth carrying frizz would make sense to me. But I'm not positive on that, just what I had heard from someone else.

frizz to frizz is NOT a good thing... you want to breed smooth to frizz. otherwise the feathers are super brittle and you could end up with a practically bald bird.