Cochin Thread!!!

[Coopa Cabana]

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Ok thanks very much... and I will keep watching

Is there a place I can reference this information?

Here's a link to the CochinsInternational website. Go to "Breed Characteristics":

http://cochinsinternational.cochinsrule.com/

 

[PhoenixFeatherFarms]

Here are some of my chicks growing out

Tell me what you think of them

**~** Edited to add: All are hatch mates hatched between 1/16/11 - 1/18/11 **~**

Cockerels

None of my Partridge would stay still for more then 2 seconds!

Pullet

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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Too cute!! Any chance you can go back and put ages with the pics? I love the barred - but someone else is going to have to chime in and tell you what the pattern should look like at their particular ages. What can you tell us about the white one - I see speckles at the end of the hackle? And of course the MF is showing good promise!

 

[chickendales]

there something about yellow band i dont like just dont know what

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Awe!! I love the Barred Babies!

 

[PhoenixFeatherFarms]

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That easy I will edit the post with the age but they are ALL hatch mates! All are early January hatch I can get the exact in a moment gotta hunt it down..... lol **~** Edited to add they were all hatched between 1/16/11 and 1/18/11 **~**

Its funny because all but the MF and the Partridge are out of my Crele project pen. They were the first chicks.. I have sinced switched up the pens but their sire is my Crele Cochin and their dams are all black barred split to buff.. I have some that are differant colors then them too just didnt get pics of them tonight

Here is daddy and one of two of the potential mommas.. there is a 3rd just like them as well as a crele pullet but Im not sure that shes even laid her first egg yet.

Chickendales.. its prob. his light color throwing you off.. I have all shades of Black Barred out of this cross.. lol!

 

[lilcrow]

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That easy I will edit the post with the age but they are ALL hatch mates! All are early January hatch I can get the exact in a moment gotta hunt it down..... lol **~** Edited to add they were all hatched between 1/16/11 and 1/18/11 **~**

Its funny because all but the MF and the Partridge are out of my Crele project pen. They were the first chicks.. I have sinced switched up the pens but their sire is my Crele Cochin and their dams are all black barred split to buff.. I have some that are differant colors then them too just didnt get pics of them tonight

Here is daddy and one of two of the potential mommas.. there is a 3rd just like them as well as a crele pullet but Im not sure that shes even laid her first egg yet.

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...12748607_129819193732409_195058_5223427_n.jpg http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...43310497_129819193732409_336252_1465837_n.jpg

Chickendales.. its prob. his light color throwing you off.. I have all shades of Black Barred out of this cross.. lol!

OH!! Be still my beating heart.

I totally ADORE the Crele color and to see it on a Cochin..................over here.............not in the UK is a wonderous thing!!!! Congratulations.

How far into the project are you and are you able yet to reproduce it during breeding? Absolutely beautiful job!!!!

Nancy

 

[Fyrekitten]

Pretty babies!

I love the partridge - Beautiful coloring already! Thanks for the Official Cochin site too. I have the Mottled Roo with the all Black Hen so that I can keep the Mottled going and had a lot of questions. I have some Partridge, Silver and Gold Standard Cochins in the incubator that should hatch in the next two weeks and I'm eager to read what they have to say about them. I have a notebook and many other things started for all my chicken breeds I'm starting and any additional links or info are great!

 

[cochinman2005]

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I only have the SOP for Bantams; I believe it's the same for LF, but I'm not positive.

Black: SHANKS & TOES: Yellow or swarthy yellow; plumage black.

Blue: SHANKS & TOES: Swarthy yellow; plumage, same as balance of plumage.

Splash is not listed, as it is not a recognized variety for Bantam Cochins. I think, when in doubt, go with Swarthy Yellow. We have had a lot of discussions regarding exactly what is "swarthy" yellow. Definitely not a bright yellow. I think of it more as a dusky, or dull, yellow.

Hope that helps.

Thank You

Would swarthy yellow include some gray/black on the tops of the feet and shanks? But the bottoms of the feet are yellow?

Everthing that Coopa has posted from the Standard is 100% correct. The problem with the text in any book describing a "standard" is that it's somewhat open to interpretation; in some instances at least. Swarthy yellow. Swarthy is defined as "of a dark color, complexion, or cast." My interpretation of swarthy yellow is: yellow with a tendency toward black, but not black. Totally Black legs are something different altogether and something you definitely do not want. In a Black or Blue bird is stands to reason that their leg color wouldn't be a crisp bright yellow just by the nature of their overall pigment. You want some yellow showing in the shanks and definitely the bottoms of the feet. The more yellow the legs, the more the males will tend to have white in their undercolor at the base of the tail and in the lower hackle. Males like this are of some value in breeding pullets with good leg color. Not necessarily everyone's cup of tea to resort to a kind of double mating for Blacks, but something that can be done if you are focusing on getting great leg/foot color in your females. The males tend to have better leg/foot color than females. Along the same lines, the Partridge tend to have horn colored legs/feet (sort of brownish red cast), but again, yellow bottoms for sure.

Large Fowl leg/foot color is the same. All Cochins are yellow skinned birds, and therefore require yellow/swarthy yellow legs/feet. The APA Standard of Perfection is certainly a book to own if you are breeding toward the standard. The 2010 edition just came out and it's $59.00 on the APA site.

 

[barnhelp92]

Hi everyone i was gonna post a new topic on breeding cochins but figured ill just ask here.
im going to seperate my birds this week an was wondering how i should do it they are all in
the same coop now but i have enough coops to seperate for egg collecting.
i have a white roo and 3 white hens. a splash roo an 6 splash hens. an a blue roo an 7 blue hens.
should i seperate them like that or what. i need some input what kind of babies would be produced in each set
ive breed orpingtons an black jerseys in the past but changed over to cochins last summer as well on a pen of buff polish .
any ideas would be appreciated.





Also i have some hens that are all lavender they were supposed to be blue cochins but there like the lavender guinea color? are they blue or splash
an all my birds are standards