Cochin Thread!!!

[SonRise Silkies]

Rhandi, what color is your chick? I mean what color is it going to be when grown? I have some just like that and with about the same foot feathering too.
Can't decide what color it's supposed to be, also the one I posted with the weird wings is this color, you can find the post a few back.

Kabhyper, your chick has strange wings also, wonder what up? The first chick is a barred but what is the second? Silver Laced?

Wish we all had more answers, don't know where else to ask. My chicks came from TSC so they might just be pretty poor quality and an "off" color.

I do appreciate any and all answers and comments though on them.

 

[Rhandi74]

I am not sure what color Roxy will be when grown. Roxy seems to finally be getting some feathers on her legs. Here is pics of all my feather footed babies from TSC also. Roxy is the only one not getting many feathers and they were purchased 4 weeks ago. The pic in the previous post was a few days ago. Panther is 6 weeks old, we fell in love with this little ones personality and went back and found more .

Panther 6 weeks old

Tabby 4 weeks old

Kali 4 weeks old

Smokey 4 weeks old

Roxy 4 weeks old

 

[SonRise Silkies]

Cute!!!!! Smokey is definitely a roo!! And a pretty one too.
Roxy looks a lot like mine all right. But different. Mine are about the same age also.
I'll try and get pics later on today. These are the wildest chicks I ever had!!! The Cochins I raise myself are super, super gentle and friendly, these are constantly freakin out!!!!

have to sneak up on them to feed and water, they go ballistic!

 

[Rhandi74]

Roxy is my only chick that freaks out, the rest are super sweet and friendly. I think we are going to keep Smokey but I am not sure yet as I think we have at least 4 other bantam cockerels and we have to decide which ones to get rid of :/ . He is by far the prettiest cockerel. We spent a lot of time with them and they really started to come around when we started feeding them out of our hands. Panther just melts in your hands when you pick her up. She never wants to get down.

 

[SonRise Silkies]

Mine are like that, they swarm me when I got out, but these TSC chicks have an atitiude. Maybe when they get bigger??

I think I'll have quite a few little roos too but I think I'll let them all grow up together and sort much later, as long as they get along good.
No use dividing them into pens till I decide what I am going to breed, if any. i don't want a lot of separate pens to feed and water.
Once you move them out they usually fight when you try to put them back together.
If I had a good place [which I may create] I'd put all the roos in one pen to grow out.
It looks like just you and me are here lately, I enjoy exchanging thoughts with you.
I'll get some pics.
Cheryl

 

[3BirdGirlz]

Your Roxy looks like my columbian brahma when she was a chick.

 

[Rhandi74]

Mine are like that, they swarm me when I got out, but these TSC chicks have an atitiude.   Maybe when they get bigger??

I think I'll have quite a few little roos too but I think I'll let them all grow up together and sort much later, as long as they get along good.
No use dividing them into pens till I decide what I am going to breed, if any.   i don't want a lot of separate pens to feed and water.
Once you move them out they usually fight when you try to put them back together. 
If I had a good place [which I may create] I'd put all the roos in one pen to grow out.
It looks like just you and me are here lately, I enjoy exchanging thoughts with you.
I'll get some pics.
Cheryl

I am very new to chickens and did not know I could keep more then one Roo in an enclosure. I like your idea of all the roo's in one enclosure until they grow up, I may try this. I also enjoy exchanging thoughts with you .

Melanie

 

[SonRise Silkies]

Here are some pics, I took more but don't want to confuse the issue....


This one I think looks like Roxy [above]



The ones here [above] are the same kind except they have very slow feather growth, probably the roos.
They are large chicks, just don't show the maturity of the others.

Excuse the pics, it was easier to just catch the pics as they were and not try and catch the chicks!!!

And yes you can keep all the roos together, if you put them together while young, but like I said if you take them out of that pen you can't very well re-introduce them.
It is much easier on the pullets/hens too. And somehow easier for me to observe them.

 

[SonRise Silkies]

Here are the youngest....the single chick and the other two eating are the same kind. They have reddish heads.
I thought they might be Mottled, but it don't look it ...it looks like barred, but they don't look like any other barred babies I ever saw.



The two with heads in feeder not the one in back of them.
What does anyone think, guess it don't matter, I'll keep till grown anyhow!

I like them!

 

[Rhandi74]

I do think that your chick looks a lot like Roxy. They are all very cute. Is the yellow chick a frizzle? I can just imagine all those little chicks acting like Roxy. She is my only chick that runs and hides, like I am a scary monster. The rest come running to jump on me or eat out of my hand because I guess their food is so much better when it is in my hand. I have not had much luck in finding any treats they can be hand fed. They did enjoy baby cakes from TSC but they couldn't really be hand fed that.