Cochin Thread!!!

[michaelinnc84]

They are gorgeous!!!!!!

 

[rnorris1234]

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Sweet!

 

[wildwoodcochins]

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I like your rooster......very nice guy.

Believe it or not, he's from Welp Hatchery. I had ordered 5 Birchens and ended up with 5 roosters. I had actually given this guy to my friend and she just didn't have room to start another breed so she gave him back several months later. I look at him now and wonder what in the world was I thinking?! I got my first chick this week, so cute! I have a few more in the incubator~
This guy is such a sweetheart, I just love him

 

[wildwoodcochins]

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Just beautiful

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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What lovely ladies ya got there!

~ Aspen

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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I like your rooster......very nice guy.

Believe it or not, he's from Welp Hatchery. I had ordered 5 Birchens and ended up with 5 roosters. I had actually given this guy to my friend and she just didn't have room to start another breed so she gave him back several months later. I look at him now and wonder what in the world was I thinking?! I got my first chick this week, so cute! I have a few more in the incubator~
This guy is such a sweetheart, I just love him

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/67387_wwcm_3.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/67387_wwcm_6.jpg

Wow!

What a handome fella ya got there!!

~ Aspen

 

[DixieChickie]

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I like your rooster......very nice guy.

Believe it or not, he's from Welp Hatchery. I had ordered 5 Birchens and ended up with 5 roosters. I had actually given this guy to my friend and she just didn't have room to start another breed so she gave him back several months later. I look at him now and wonder what in the world was I thinking?! I got my first chick this week, so cute! I have a few more in the incubator~
This guy is such a sweetheart, I just love him

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/67387_wwcm_3.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/67387_wwcm_6.jpg

Wow now I wanna find some birchen chicks or eggs!!

 

[wildwoodcochins]

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Believe it or not, he's from Welp Hatchery. I had ordered 5 Birchens and ended up with 5 roosters. I had actually given this guy to my friend and she just didn't have room to start another breed so she gave him back several months later. I look at him now and wonder what in the world was I thinking?! I got my first chick this week, so cute! I have a few more in the incubator~
This guy is such a sweetheart, I just love him

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/67387_wwcm_3.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/67387_wwcm_6.jpg

Wow now I wanna find some birchen chicks or eggs!!

There is hardly anyone that I can find breeding them, the Birchens have always been one of my favorites~ Hopefully next year a few of us will have some babies!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Wow now I wanna find some birchen chicks or eggs!!

There is hardly anyone that I can find breeding them, the Birchens have always been one of my favorites~ Hopefully next year a few of us will have some babies!

When I ordered the 4 bantam assortments from Murray McMurray Hatchery I got once Birchen hen, I named her Christmas. She wasn't very sweet, but boy was she adorable! I still miss that hen, all my choocks loved to free range and I'm sure a coyote got her or something.

~ Aspen

 

[Hens and Roos]

Afternoon, I haven't posted in a while but need some help. My DS(9) has some Partridge Bantam Cochins that he picked to raise for 4-H. He got them as 2 month old chicks in 2010. In the fall of 2010 we attempted to hatch eggs, we trimmed feathers on both the girls and the boys and ended up hatching out 4 chicks for 2011- lucky he ended up with 1 pullet and 3 cockerals. As we look ahead to next year for hatching we are seeing the following:

1. the hens and 1 pullet aren't really laying all that well- in Aug 2011 we collected about 18 eggs for the month, we do releaize that they go broody alot

2. we have them in wire cages along with 1 rooster in each cage.

3. when we checked weights on them, they are bigger than the standard, with 1 or 2 very close to standard weight

4. we check them regularly and make sure they aren't carrying mites and such, we did notice alot of feathers in the cage towards the end of July 2011- could they still be in molt?

our concern is that if they aren't laying eggs, we can't hatch any out for DS's project. Any suggestions and recommendations at this point. DS perfers the bantam size breed due to their ease of handling.