Cochin Thread!!!

[Iko127]

I have a couple really nice blues out there. I'm about 1 1/2 from Tallahassee. Think it's about 70 miles to there from here.

Your 4 1/2 hr drive from me Well if I come across anyone heading this way from that area maybe or if you ever have a reason to come towards gainesville and still have hem let me know!! They are very pretty! Thank you

 

[Coops4me]

Went out and took a few pics after I posted the boys...and here are some fresh pic's and some new babies ( 4 days to 3 weeks old)

 

[Iko127]

Went out and took a few pics after I posted the boys...and here are some fresh pic's and some new babies ( 4 days to 3 weeks old)

I think I like the first rooster but I'm new to the cochins so I might not be correct. I have a splash and a blue girls. I love the babies!! So cute

 

[Skink]

Thought I would share some photos of my cochin gal! She is 7 months old now. She was a lone chick, so she is a part of our human family indoors. She roosts on my computer chair! She needs a wee beak trim in some of these, we give her things to whet her beak on but she insists on rubbing it on soft things like blankets and pillows.


trying to get a photo of her looking in to the camera, her waiting for me to sit down so she can be snuggled


Stomping around in the cat bed she confiscated from said cat, football mode on her perch in the middle of the night


Some silly faces from when she was a bit younger and one more normal shot


helping asses the garden with me right after we moved here (we go outside for long periods daily, weather permitting. All she usually wants to do is forage a little then hover around the door to go back in, ha)




1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 5 weeks

She will be getting more cochin friends in the spring. For now, I had only 1 of my 18 serama eggs hatch, it is a little rooster. He's only a month old so they're not allowed near one another, but they already purr to each other at night and even when he's jumped out of the brooder she hasn't bum rushed him so hopefully they will be friends when he's old enough.

 

[calichicken]

Thought I would share some photos of my cochin gal! She is 7 months old now. She was a lone chick, so she is a part of our human family indoors. She roosts on my computer chair! She needs a wee beak trim in some of these, we give her things to whet her beak on but she insists on rubbing it on soft things like blankets and pillows.


trying to get a photo of her looking in to the camera, her waiting for me to sit down so she can be snuggled


Stomping around in the cat bed she confiscated from said cat, football mode on her perch in the middle of the night


Some silly faces from when she was a bit younger and one more normal shot


helping asses the garden with me right after we moved here (we go outside for long periods daily, weather permitting. All she usually wants to do is forage a little then hover around the door to go back in, ha)




1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 5 weeks

She will be getting more cochin friends in the spring. For now, I had only 1 of my 18 serama eggs hatch, it is a little rooster. He's only a month old so they're not allowed near one another, but they already purr to each other at night and even when he's jumped out of the brooder she hasn't bum rushed him so hopefully they will be friends when he's old enough.

She is adorable

I love them at their 3-4 week awkward feathering stage

I have the same situation here...a bantam cochin girl that is a house chicken with us! I tried to hatch some more bantam cochins in the summer so she had a buddy, but didn't go well

and the one that did hatch was a beautiful Roo I couldn't keep

So trying again in the spring...but for now she is a happy house chicken that likes being around her "people" at night and forages outside during the day

 

[kmollyhughes]

I was always in love with sizzles over Cochins...and just lately that flipped. Cochins are adorable and sweet like sizzles, but sturdy and big birds in tiny bodies. (I have bantams) Next spring I'm going to hatch like crazy with the LF and bantam Cochins. I have all my birds, D'Uccles to Marans together in a huge flock and they all do fine. Space and broodies are key. I try not to grow out chicks without a broody. Never a problem with my girls. I usually have a few broody girls at all times. :/

My Cochins are all always roosting in the pen and in our pine trees when they're out free ranging.

 

[LittleChicks4Me]

Love this thread..

Will be starting my flock of cochin bantams this spring.. When I order my hatching eggs..

So eggcited and looking to have these precious eggs in my incubator... Then the count down begins.

Till then, I read in preparation for my eggs and enjoy all I can see, with all of your sweet and beautiful cochin pictures..

Makes me all the more ready to have them at my place..

 

[LittleChicks4Me]

LOL I sure wish I could be so free.. I would have that many.

Living in the outer limits of the city. Keeps me at bay..

I can only go for one handful of pets Cochin chickens.

Setting up about 15 eggs to hopefully get a hen from three colors I have chosen and on Roo.

lol If all hatch out, then I will be on the forum finding loving homes for my extras I cannot house.

 

[LittleChicks4Me]

LOL!!!! Ok, I didn't add all of mine up when I listed them, but now since someone else had the guts to do it, I'll give you my total.

Holy Cow, I have 136 birds right now!!! Ok, I knew it was over 100, but when I look at it on paper, it seems so much more crazy!!! Luckily, my hubby is on board and keeps building me more coops and runs.

LOL I sure wish I could be so free.. I would have that many.

Living in the outer limits of the city. Keeps me at bay..

I can only go for one handful of pets Cochin chickens. Setting up about 15 eggs to hopefully get a hen from three colors I have chosen and on Roo.

lol If all hatch out, then I will be on the forum finding loving homes for my extras I cannot house.

 

[flynntheduck]

Bantam or standard? 14 weeks old. Weighs 2lbs 11oz waterer is 1 gallon for size reference. Other smaller chickens are 8 weeks old.

^^^^ her buddy in this last pic is an 11/12week old golden laced Wyandotte.