Cochin Thread!!!

[Blue]

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Oh, that makes sense. I couldn't figure out what was going on with his tail fluff. I agree; their patterning is very nice looking. The bottom one really does look calico, too.

 

[KDailey]

I had seen pictures of Calico before and was really pleased that he's so close. I think "real" calico is supposed to have a lot of white but he's close.

 

[thecochincoop]

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they look like project mille fleurs and the middle one appears to be a sort of brown red

 

[shawnadoodlebug]

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they look like project mille fleurs and the middle one appears to be a sort of brown red

I agree it looks like a red brown project of some sort.

 

[SierraView]

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They look like mille fleur project and will change a lot in coloring. Wait till they are a year old they will be stunning.

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

I see questions posted here from time to time that make me think some people that call themselves breeders don't have or use a Standard of Perfection. Oh and you can call a project anything you want but until it breeds true it is only eye candy.

 

[Funky Feathers]

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they look like project mille fleurs and the middle one appears to be a sort of brown red

Those are not Mille Fleur project birds. As stated in my auction, they are culls from my Porcelain project that I gave up on. I got a wide variety of colors, these will never breed true. Their mother was a Lavender hen, their father was a Mille Fleur Roo. These are just off-color culls, they will not improve any breeding program, they are just cheap eye candy.

 

[Funky Feathers]

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I never said I was breeding these to the Standard. They were simply a color project I gave up on. I made no effort to improve type, I was shooting for a specific color only. I try to breed my "real" colors to the Standard (which I do have a copy of).

 

[Coopa Cabana]

There are a ton of Cochins around the country now that are out of Mille Fleur projects. Problem is, MF's are still a project, and no one has yet to breed them true. So any other project that has MF in it will also not breed true.

There are only one or two CLOSED Mille Fleur project flocks in the country, to my knowledge. They are the only breeders that can tell you the exact genetic makeup of their birds, going back several generations.

 

[lilcrow]

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they look like project mille fleurs and the middle one appears to be a sort of brown red

I agree it looks like a red brown project of some sort.

Shawna, minor point but if you're going to be talking with folks about these colors you need to know it's Brown-Red not red brown.