Cochin Thread!!!

[The Sheriff]

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Thanks, but we prefer to be delusional until they crow!

Careful . . . you don't want them to have an identity crisis! I was going to say all cockerels except for the one on the right, but I have to defer to Tom's expertise!

In reality I actually think the one on the right is a girl too, all due respects to Tom!

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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Can you get some pics of them when they're not in the shadows?

 

[cochinman2005]

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Careful . . . you don't want them to have an identity crisis! I was going to say all cockerels except for the one on the right, but I have to defer to Tom's expertise!

In reality I actually think the one on the right is a girl too, all due respects to Tom!

I based calling the bird on the right a cockerel on his feathers. he shows typical slow feathering often seen in bantam White males. The Barred ckl exhibits the same thing.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Tom, we were having a VERY NOVICE discussion about double-mating with the patterned colors a couple of days ago. Any insight you can provide us - especially as to your Partridge breeding program? And GL's?

 

[The Sheriff]

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In reality I actually think the one on the right is a girl too, all due respects to Tom!

I based calling the bird on the right a cockerel on his feathers. he shows typical slow feathering often seen in bantam White males. The Barred ckl exhibits the same thing.

The two white chicks are bantam barred buff split to bantam barred blacks. I was just going by the difference in how they look because I do not know what I am doing yet. The cockeral is in the corner but I thought this one was a pullet.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

FYI to All . . . someone just posted over on the CI website several trios of Standards in several color varieties for sale. I don't know the gentleman - this is just an FYI.

 

[Stellar]

What would this Roo be considered?

 

[thecochincoop]

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a mottled birchen

 

[cochinman2005]

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I pay some attention to the purpose for using double mating with my Partridge. for instance, a Partridge male with red ticking in the breast makes a good pullet breeder. Conversely, better males would be produced using a correctly colored male and a female that wasn't as distinct in penciling. With the Partridge bantams I have issues with shafting so I try not to use any birds for breeding that show that. The trouble is that as they get older they tend to molt in with shafting in the primaries. Not that this has much to do with double mating, but a flaw I am dealing with in the Partridge Btms. It's possible to produce good males and females from the same pen, but you'll have greater success as far as numbers if you were to use double mating practices. Same holds true with the GL's. Smutty cushioned females bred to a well laced male would produce better males than females. To produce the best laced pullets, you want as good a female as possible in lacing, and focus on wing covert lacing and lacing quality in the thighs of the males. If they carry the lacing through the thighs, they should produce decent lacing in the pullets. not much I can write that hasn't already been written. Right now I focused more on getting a deeper mahogany color on both the bantam and large Partridge.

 

[cochinman2005]

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I based calling the bird on the right a cockerel on his feathers. he shows typical slow feathering often seen in bantam White males. The Barred ckl exhibits the same thing.

The two white chicks are bantam barred buff split to bantam barred blacks. I was just going by the difference in how they look because I do not know what I am doing yet. The cockeral is in the corner but I thought this one was a pullet.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/34566_gender_1_of_1.jpg

99.9% sure that's a cockerel. I see the slow feathering in both the Barred and White Bantams so not surprised to see in the crosses you describe.