Cochin Thread!!!

[SizzleQueen]

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Bantams! I am excited.

 

[missbecky]

Congrats on getting your Cochins...

I have a mixed flock (Cochin, Silkie, Wyandotte, Welsumer, Orpington, bantam Rhode Island Red -one of each (except my Silkies that ended up all being handsome little roosters), and am having trouble trying to pick a favorite breed.

I knew going into this that a Cochin might not be the greatest egg layer, but I just had to have one! Needless to say I have fallen in love with all of them.

Our hens just started laying around Christmas, and surprise! Altough they are smaller eggs, the Cochin gives me an egg almost every day.

Let me say this about the Cochins...

They stay in that awkward strange looking teenage stage a little longer than the other breeds, but then all of a sudden... Bam! Instant beauties! My hen is the most docile, slow moving, non-chalant, calm, quiet, beautiful bird. She has no qualms about being picked up... She's just so easy going. I love this hen! I would love to have more. If you have kids this is a great breed. Mine is standard size, so with all that feather fluff she looks huge! I love the big poofy tail, and her feathered feet that look like boots. She's just a doll!

You are going to LOVE your Cochins.

 

[SizzleQueen]

Congrats on getting your Cochins...

I have a mixed flock (Cochin, Silkie, Wyandotte, Welsumer, Orpington, bantam Rhode Island Red -one of each (except my Silkies that ended up all being handsome little roosters), and am having trouble trying to pick a favorite breed.

I knew going into this that a Cochin might not be the greatest egg layer, but I just had to have one! Needless to say I have fallen in love with all of them.

Our hens just started laying around Christmas, and surprise! Altough they are smaller eggs, the Cochin gives me an egg almost every day.

Let me say this about the Cochins...

They stay in that awkward strange looking teenage stage a little longer than the other breeds, but then all of a sudden... Bam! Instant beauties! My hen is the most docile, slow moving, non-chalant, calm, quiet, beautiful bird. She has no qualms about being picked up... She's just so easy going. I love this hen! I would love to have more. If you have kids this is a great breed. Mine is standard size, so with all that feather fluff she looks huge! I love the big poofy tail, and her feathered feet that look like boots. She's just a doll!

You are going to LOVE your Cochins.

Thank you, I am so excited.. They will be hens for my Sizzle rooster when they reach the right age.

 

[Sylviaanne]

What size should a large fowl or standard Cochin be at 6-7 months?

I have 3 that look like bantams to me. I have not had Cochins before and someone gave me a black Cochin rooster that is about 8 months old and those 3 little ones look like if they were combined would make the size of the rooster. I asked for large fowl when I bought the 3 little ones, there were 4 but one died, I think he gave me bantams but they were the same size as all the other breeds of chicks that were there.

 

[missbecky]

What size should a large fowl or standard Cochin be at 6-7 months?

I have 3 that look like bantams to me. I have not had Cochins before and someone gave me a black Cochin rooster that is about 8 months old and those 3 little ones look like if they were combined would make the size of the rooster. I asked for large fowl when I bought the  3 little ones, there were 4 but one died, I think he gave me bantams but they were the same size as all the other breeds of chicks that were there.

Your standard Cochin will look larger than the average hen... As they are so poofy. If it looks like it fits in a shoebox, it's a bantam.

 

[Animal lover85]

I have a pair of blue mottled cochins

 

[ChickenNamaste]

Cochins are too cute!

 

[Sylviaanne]

Your standard Cochin will look larger than the average hen... As they are so poofy. If it looks like it fits in a shoebox, it's a bantam.

Might fit in a shoe box if I squashed the feathers down but just as they are they would be a bit big for a shoe box but just a bit.

 

[missbecky]

Might fit in a shoe box if I squashed the feathers down but just as they are they would be a bit big for a shoe box but just a bit.

If I remember, I'll try to go measure my Cochin tomorrow.

 

[Sylviaanne]

How do you measure a chicken?

I just usually go by looking and comparing them to chickens I already have.