Cochin Thread!!!

[Ivywoods]

I'm looking for an exhibition quality pullet or hen in a black bantam cochin.

Long story. Years ago I had show chickens with the kids. My son's black bantam cochin, "Grumpy" won in every show he was in. We sold a number of his offspring, including a trio that went to my sister. When I moved to where I live now, we had no place for chickens, so I gave all our show chickens to my sister. Grumpy eventually died, but his son is still alive, although he is about 7 years old. I recently re-aquired Grumpy Jr. from my sister. She did not hatch chicks from him, but just kept him. The only hen she had died just recently.

I would like to get a really nice pullet or hen to put with Grumpy Jr. PM me to let me know if you have a great little hen or pullet that would help me out.

 

[DixieChickie]

I didn't know where to put this, I saw some chick color questions on here so figured it might be the best place for answers. I have 2 chicks, Cochin bantams......I'm quite sure one is a mottled since the baby fuzz coloration is the same as my 2 mottleds that I already had. However this one is not as dark it's more of a charcoal color...perhaps a darker blue mottled? Second question, the other chick...maybe splash? I see white feathers coming in and some light silvery colored feathers too.....thoughts?
We have named the little mottled, Storm.
And Rain is the ?splash?

 

[CrazyFowlFreak]

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I love the splash!

 

[mjgigax]

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I love the splash!

Some friends and breeders that have some LF splash - Such beautiful birds! I would like one for an incubator since I have bantams and don't have room for a flock of LF too. I do have a HUGE buff from then. I love her and the contrast with my little bantams is fun.

 

[Meara]

DixieChickie can you post another picture of that possibly blue mottled chick? I'm guessing your other chick is splash, but I have seen chicks that color feather out white....

 

[riftnreef]

OK...I have a question...recently hatched my first small batch of white Cochins bantams from a young pullet...one was not to well right out the shell and died about three days later...another barely made it past a week. The third is now a little over a month and doing well, but I'm a bit puzzled with it's wing feathers...they seem to be curving outwards like a frizzle. Now, I know that a frizzle can be thrown naturally on rare occasions, but I'm wondering if this is just normal Cochin baby feathers, or something else? both parents are smooth, though I don't know much about thier history past that, though given who I bought them from, I highly doubt there are frizzled genes anywhere close in their blood lines.

 

[jeremy]

Does anyone have pictures of Barred Cochins?

I had 1 hatch from a batch I set in early March, these were eggs I got from someone here locally in the Bay Area, I dunno why they didn't hatch well as they weren't shipped.

Anyways, the chick has feathered in and it looks like I might have lucked out and hatched a pullet!

 

[dak]

Jeremy, are you lost? (just kidding)

Check out these Barred Bantam Cochins

http://gff.cochinsrule.com/

 

[jeremy]

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Right? Not my typical hang out I know...

I wanted a couple Cochins in hopes of increasing my odds at having broodies to do the hatching thing for me. At the time I set the eggs I figured I'd get more than 1 chick, oh well.

All that means is that now this little barred pullet better be EXTRA broody to make up for her being the only one!

The person I bought the eggs from said she was LF, are there barred LF Cochins? She's definitely as big as most of my LF chicks.

 

[dak]

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Right? Not my typical hang out I know...

I wanted a couple Cochins in hopes of increasing my odds at having broodies to do the hatching thing for me. At the time I set the eggs I figured I'd get more than 1 chick, oh well.

All that means is that now this little barred pullet better be EXTRA broody to make up for her being the only one!

The person I bought the eggs from said she was LF, are there barred LF Cochins? She's definitely as big as most of my LF chicks.

Yes, there are. They seem to be a little harder to sex than some of the other colors. Post a picture. We want to see "her".