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Black Cochin Bantams said:
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the sharing of information, while important to the breed, may not be beneficial to the PTB... they get their funding from paid advertisers who sell chicks. those chicks are not SOP and IMO are not beneficial to those trying to improve their stock... so when information needs to be shared, I will usually PM them or contact them via fb or other websites if I know they're there...

a good friend was banned for trying to share natural chicken keeping information by posting it on her blog and sharing that with friends here... go figure.
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I think PM'ing info to someone asking is not against the rules, as it is not taking place on the public part of this forum. Seems to me the BST threads are not very active right now, is the same people posting there most weeks, maybe the mods are looking to change that by asking everyone who is buyin selling or trading their chicks or chickens to post there. idk any other reasoning for not allowing it on other threads. :idunno
 
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In answer to how many eggs my girls may lay in a week, it depends.
My 6 year old girls may lay only 3 a week, while my 2 year olds are laying 5 a week.
I definitely have noticed a huge difference in my bantam Cochins when I have put them up in wire bottom cages. Some of my isolation cages are up off the ground with a dropping board so I can burn their feces. In the past year I have not had very many new birds coming in so I treated part of the cages and put some of my girls in those to ready for a show. They hated it, stopped laying and for a month I worried about them. Once I showed them I brought them home put them back in their tractors and they went right back to laying up a storm.
I will be the first to advocate for roomy housing and fresh grass. My birds are far more important to me than showing but I will take them with their broken foot feathers, scratched feathers and just be happy to talk with others about our beloved Cochins. Mine are all winners in my eyes.

Most people on this website and especially this thread do not agree with me on many things but I assure you, I love my birds and anyone that has visited here can certainly tell you it shows. I breed them far more than I should and hatch 100's of chicks each month from my many breeding pens. I hate having to take out so many roosters but they are chickens. They have just as much personality as the one served in a restaurant or the one you buy at a grocery store.

I know most people see the Cochins as our pets but I was in no way offended by this person asking about them. However, I do not raise them solely for meat considering Cochins were and are royalty birds.
 
WestKnollAmy said:
In answer to how many eggs my girls may lay in a week, it depends.
My 6 year old girls may lay only 3 a week, while my 2 year olds are laying 5 a week.
I definitely have noticed a huge difference in my bantam Cochins when I have put them up in wire bottom cages. Some of my isolation cages are up off the ground with a dropping board so I can burn their feces. In the past year I have not had very many new birds coming in so I treated part of the cages and put some of my girls in those to ready for a show. They hated it, stopped laying and for a month I worried about them. Once I showed them I brought them home put them back in their tractors and they went right back to laying up a storm.
I will be the first to advocate for roomy housing and fresh grass. My birds are far more important to me than showing but I will take them with their broken foot feathers, scratched feathers and just be happy to talk with others about our beloved Cochins. Mine are all winners in my eyes.

Most people on this website and especially this thread do not agree with me on many things but I assure you, I love my birds and anyone that has visited here can certainly tell you it shows. I breed them far more than I should and hatch 100's of chicks each month from my many breeding pens. I hate having to take out so many roosters but they are chickens. They have just as much personality as the one served in a restaurant or the one you buy at a grocery store.

I know most people see the Cochins as our pets but I was in no way offended by this person asking about them. However, I do not raise them solely for meat considering Cochins were and are royalty birds.
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I totally agree with you. On everything you said. i also didnt see anything offensive in the question nor in anything else that she said. I like to honor everyones opinion even if it's different than mine.Thanks for your post and sharring your thoughts, i can totally tell you care about your birds. Best whishes to you.
 
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