Cochin Thread!!!

[AndyCap]

I am having to reduce my flock for health reasons. I have Silver Penciled available for someone interested in breeding a rare but recognized variety.  Looking for the right person to continue this project .

I wish I was closer to all of you!

 

[Missyktsm]

Okay, so I hate that I made the mistake of matching up a bird to its owner but I'm thrilled the mistake sparked these pic posting. Truly beautiful birds! I cannot wait to hatch mine. Thank you all for showing your work.

 

[lilcrow]

I wish I was closer to all of you!

I wish you were too Andy, you'd be such a wonderful addition to the US Cochin breeders and fanciers. Any chance that someday you would locate to American?
It would be just wonderful for you to have some SP and Partridge of Craigs.

 

[Jharper]

Yay! My cochin bantam hen has finally almost got her feathers back. She has a white tip on one of here foot feathers. I believes it's from all the stress.

 

[CyndiChick]

If I move to Iowa can I get the silver penciled? They are beautiful birds! (Sometimes I feel so freaking far from everything out here in the backwoods of FL LOL)

 

[Darkfeather]

I picked up some birds from a guy who was giving away all of his chickens and got this buff with them. They hatched her from an egg they got from a friend who is a breeder and claims is show quality. She certainly is very pretty. I put her in my mixed flock but she seems to be at the bottom of the pecking order and is having a harder time adjusting than the other two new birds I put in there and I'm wondering if I should separate her.

 

[kabhyper1]

Some pics of our kids. I have posted the blues before, but I had to do it again.

They are hatchery, still young.

Oliver the bantam

Blueberry


Lavender as a 4 month old

as a 7 month old

The fluffy butts

Sorry pic heavy.

 

[AndyCap]

I have a question for those of you more experienced with broodies.

I have one hen sitting on seven eggs, she has been sitting for 18 days.

I have another hen that has just gone broody. Is it too late for me to move two of the eggs from under the hen who has been sitting for 18 days, to the new broody?

The reason i like the idea is then my new broody will only sit for 3 days, then the eggs will hatch.

Good idea or not?

 

[ki4got]

I have a question for those of you more experienced with broodies.

I have one hen sitting on seven eggs, she has been sitting for 18 days.

I have another hen that has just gone broody. Is it too late for me to move two of the eggs from under the hen who has been sitting for 18 days, to the new broody?

The reason i like the idea is then my new broody will only sit for 3 days, then the eggs will hatch.

Good idea or not?

I've given chicks to broodies who've only BEEN broody for 4-5 days, so I say go for it. none of my reliable girls has been broody for more than a week on average. tho I do have a couple who were determined to hatch wooden eggs for upwards of a month or more, but they're also girls who weren't reliable in the past...

then again, I hatch everything myself and determine who gets babies or not.

 

[Jharper]

I've given chicks to broodies who've only BEEN broody for 4-5 days, so I say go for it.  none of my reliable girls has been broody for more than a week on average. tho I do have a couple who were determined to hatch wooden eggs for upwards of a month or more, but they're also girls who weren't reliable in the past...

then again, I hatch everything myself and determine who gets babies or not.

X2! Good luck!