Cochin Thread!!!

[rnorris1234]

I've got eggs hatching! I have 3 lemon blues from Candace that have hatched, a lavender and a white have also hatched. I have a golden laced, a silver penciled, and a partridge starting to break out and a couple more partridge and lavender and a blue in the waiting (these were an assorted color dozen from covered Bridge Poultry). All are bantams. Pics will follow once they all hatch.
Robert

I may have to build another coop!

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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I may have to build another coop! Wouldn't it just be easier to send them to me???

 

[1muttsfan]

I also have eggs from candiss due to hatch on monday can't wait! Pics would be great when you have time robert

 

[rnorris1234]

I had 3 of hers hatch. I lemon blue and 2 look like could be brown red (the black form of the Lemon Blue) (which is also fine with me). I am going out of town to celebrate our anniversary, so i'll try to take some picks on Sunday or Monday. the chicks just look like a regular blue (or black, or splash, depending) the lemon color will begin to come in with the feathers.

Robert


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[Candiss]

I will post pics tomorrow.. Happy Anniversary.

 

[chickendales]

can i add barred standard cochins in to my standard blue black splash pen and get barred?
what other colors can i add to my cochins with out make to big of a mess. partridge?

 

[Braclin]

Wanted to share a pic of my Giant Partridge Pair I hatched in December.

 

[farmerChef]

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Do you have just barred hens? Becuase then you would have sexlinked Cochins. Think of the barred as black. So you could get
barred hen to black rooster = barred roosters and black hens.
Barred hen and blue rooster= black and blue hens, black and blue barred roosters
barred hen to splash rooster = blue hens and blue barred roosters.

But if you were also adding barred roosters, then you would get both b/b/s barred hens and roosters.

 

[chickendales]

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Do you have just barred hens? Becuase then you would have sexlinked Cochins. Think of the barred as black. So you could get
barred hen to black rooster = barred roosters and black hens.
Barred hen and blue rooster= black and blue hens, black and blue barred roosters
barred hen to splash rooster = blue hens and blue barred roosters.

But if you were also adding barred roosters, then you would get both b/b/s barred hens and roosters.

i probly just add a hen to the bunch and got from there unless i can only get pairs but i dont want another breeding pen just would like some cool colors
that i could may be show later

 

[yoie]

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It's hard to know for sure without a picture, but if he's ALL blue with one or two white feathers in his foot feathering, he's a blue. The white feathers are not desirable, but it doesn't make him a splash. My own much loved, "perfect most wonderful rooster in the world" has a couple of small white feathers in his foot feathers. It would be nice to see pictures of him.
Nancy

Thanks for the reply! I"ll try to find a pic with his feet in it. Most of the pics I have of him he's sleeping in

This was the best pic I could get of him, its his favorite spot to sit, he has a nice view of his ladies from here. Can't really see the white spot on his foot though, I also noticed he has a few red feathers on his neck, he is going through his last molt, he is now 4 months old, will the red feathers stay or is it just bad coloring?