Cochin Thread!!!

[Coopa Cabana]

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[TennesseeTruly]

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Oh no! I'm so sorry! That absolutely stinks!

I lost my two bantam Polish roos, too. It had to be the cold. The hens are fine in that pen, only lost those two roos.

Laurie

 

[YardBirdHost]

Newbie to BYC forums. What a great thread you guys have going. I am looking for some barred bantam cochin hatching eggs.
I would greatly appreciate any recommendations of a breeder that sells eggs from SQ or BQ stock.

Feel free to PM me if you rather not post publicly.

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[TennesseeTruly]

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Oh no! I'm so sorry! That absolutely stinks!

I lost my two bantam Polish roos, too. It had to be the cold. The hens are fine in that pen, only lost those two roos.

Laurie

 

[shelleyd2008]

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cochinman2005 has nice birds, and I think swheat has barred cochins too. Actually, come to think of it, swheat has barred silkied cochins I'm pretty sure. Both have at least BQ but I'm sure they have SQ as well. Though you'd have to contact them to see when they'd have some available.

 

[smoothmule]

rnorris,
I'm sorry about that, dang weather. I just bought another heat bulb and I'm heading out to put it in my building for my Serama's and Araucana's. I only have 4 young ones out there and they're fully feathered and doing fine in the cold. I do have a couple of Araucana's in the house that are not feathered yet and a week old Serama chick and 3 pipped and trying to zip out plus a dozen in the incubator. With this COLD weather, I may have to set up an area above the garage that is heated cause my babies are not going out in this stuff.

I keep 2 lights at once so if one goes out, the other on is the back up. I'm considering getting another battery back up, like I have my computer on so if the power goes out my computer will run for a few hours. I have my incubator plugged in to it and I'd unplug my computer in a heart beat if the power went down a while. It also protects from surges. My only concern is that a couple of heat lamps will suck the power down so fast it wouldn't be worth the effort.

What does everyone else do to keep their birds warm?

 

[rnorris1234]

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Thanks. It is not supposed to be this cold in Alabama! I have lost several of my young cochins (about 3-4 months old) I have a heat lamp in with them, but I still lost some. I finally puled all of the younger ones into the basement ( I made a pen using the support columns and bird netting with a tarp on the floor covered with pine shavings). I have 9 chicks left and i hope they all make it until Spring and I hope my basement will recover. The adult birds are still in the coop with the heat lamp.
Robert

 

[TennesseeTruly]

We actually purchased a mini barn and we have it heated. All of our youngsters are in it. (ones that have hatched and are getting feathered out.) We haven't lost anything in our barn that's not heated. We did a lot of work on it this summer including putting a new roof on, enclosing one end of it that was opened all last winter and replacing some missing boards.

I won't ever use heat lamps in our barns again after I walked into our barn a month ago today and found a small fire that was started by the heat lamp. Never again!

We're not supposed to be this cold here! I moved from NY to TN to be warmer! Its supposed to go up to 31 tomorrow so we'll be adding more pine shavings to everyone's coops and piling up some hay bales against the side of the Polish's coop that gets the most wind.

Laurie

 

[flood1964]

Does anyone on here sell and ship bantam cochins?
J.

 

[thecochincoop]

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I do when I have them available