Cochin Thread!!!

[bumpershoot]

mine lay about 5 times a week on average. That is, of course, when they're not being broody!

 

[SC_Hugh]

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Our feed store people said that we bought Blue Cochins, but they are very black with a emerald green sheen (very pretty in the sunlight), but then I saw other "Blue" Cochins online that were very Blue, so I renamed ours Black Cochins. Feed store people were also wrong when they called our other two chicks "Speckled Dominiques"...no such breed, only Barred Dominiques.

Cochins are very slow to mature, our girl took soooooo long to lay her first egg and she still likes to lay her eggs in her very own nest on the floor.

--Hugh

 

[Chick CJ]

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Our feed store people said that we bought Blue Cochins, but they are very black with a emerald green sheen (very pretty in the sunlight), but then I saw other "Blue" Cochins online that were very Blue, so I renamed ours Black Cochins. Feed store people were also wrong when they called our other two chicks "Speckled Dominiques"...no such breed, only Barred Dominiques.

Cochins are very slow to mature, our girl took soooooo long to lay her first egg and she still likes to lay her eggs in her very own nest on the floor.

--Hugh

How funny we both had the same experience with the breed issue! My girl has the same beautiful sheen. She is really very different from my other girls. My friend says she looks like a sorceress that got turned into a chicken! She is very mellow, walks slow and doesn't get too upset at anything. I only have 8 chickens, every one a different breed and it is very interesting to see how they are all different one from another.

AmberH, interesting that yours lay only twice a week and bumpershoot, yours lay 5 times a week! That's quite a difference in laying, almost from low to med-high. I kind of hope I get more than two eggs a week from her, but she will be worth it anyway as she is a very easy chicken to take care of. Not very high maintenance at all for such a beautiful girl!

Does anyone know if there are any special needs she may have that I might not be aware of? Anything I should be looking out for?
I love BYC!
Thanks, CJ

 

[spotsplus]

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My bantam red cochin hen "hen" lays about 5 times a week

She started laying first of all my hens at approx 6 months old and this spring started laying first - about two months ago.

Tammie

 

[Chick CJ]

My bantam red cochin hen "hen" lays about 5 times a week She started laying first of all my hens at approx 6 months old and this spring started laying first - about two months ago.

Tammie




Well, that would make sense then. My girl is just under 6 months old. Just today she was walking around the yard making a lot of soft clucking noises. I have never even heard her make a sound before! She was so quiet about it I had to really pay attention to hear it. In my experience all my other girls did the same thing (only louder

) in the days just prior to laying their first egg so I am thinking it might be any day now. We'll see!
CJ

 

[AmberH]

Here are my three babies!

Tank

Suri

Blueberry

All together!

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

Looks like Tank is in

with Blueberry...Poor thing is going bald

 

[Chick CJ]

Oh, they are just so beautiful!

CJ

 

[BluffCountryShepherdess]

Don't you just love the full, red combs and wattles on Cochin hens when they're laying? I have several that get quite large combs and wattles when they are laying eggs and I think they are so striking. I notice that my Calicos tend to have more prominent combs and wattles as well.

 

[Sweetfolly]

These two babies hatched last Thursday:

...and here are some of this years older "babies", beginning that long journey thorough the "ugly stage":

A few nights ago, I heard this terrible peeping sound, looked into the brooders and found that one of the two-week-old Cochins has flown up out of the brooder, and went to visit some ducklings in the neighboring brooder - the ducklings were scared to death of that monster!