Cochin Thread!!!

[Black Cochin Bantams]

I saw some were wondering about me. I got home 1 hr ago and am thrilled to have 14 chicks on the ground with more eggs in the incubator. Will be getting ready for spring shows soon.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

I saw some were wondering about me. I got home 1 hr ago and am thrilled to have 14 chicks on the ground with more eggs in the incubator. Will be getting ready for spring shows soon.

 

[jdemars]

I am a newbe and still looking for some help figuring out what I've got here. I'm fairly sure cochin bantam but not sure on color they are now 6 days old. Here the are any help would be great the first is the dark which is getting black and white feathers on its wins (molted?) the other im not sure but thinking silver pencil? please help. also is there any way to sex these little ones

 

[tiki244]

jdemars I am waiting for the pictures to load up.

Hi Black Cochin Bantams

 

[jdemars]

did the pics load? I see you're WI as well us to Osceola area you?

 

[tiki244]

jdemars they definitely look like cochin bantams. There is no way of telling the sex on the black one. The black one looks black to me, as they do have white in their wings when young. I have only had one mottled chick in my life and it took months before I could see any mottling.

The cochins behavior of male and female seems to show at a younger age than some other breeds, but it still will be a while. (in my experience) The boys act like boys fairly young.

(I am not familiar with the other color. It looks like partridge but I could be way way off. I know for the old english game s bantams I have, they look like that and the females have a much more pronounced V on their head and darker mascara (eye stripe) than the boys. But this is all speculation. )

 

[tiki244]

I live near Eau Claire. Where is Osceola? Stop by cheeseheads if you have the time. Nice foot feathering on your cochins.

O MY Gosh you are practically in my backyard!!!!!

 

[tiki244]

StevenW what an adorable chick. What type of incubator is that?

Rey Vaughn nice buff columbian and the splash one. He has some nice foot feathers on him.

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

Twyla, here are some pictures of my mottled chicks.

Lots of potential there!

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

I really wished we had as much effort and as many people interested in breeding recognized varieties that are rare instead of focusing attention on "creating" a new variety that will take years and lots of money to get correct. I understand that without people doing this then we wouldnt be where we are today with the amount of vareties we have, but it just is a little disapointing that there are so many people ready to make time and spend a large amount of cash on trying to create a new variety when that time, money, and effort could be put where it needs to be and help revive some of the dying varieties that exist in Cochins today. And again, I am not knocking anyone for doing it, kudos to anyone who can make the whole way through. This is just my opinion on the issue and I soley speak for myself. Just wish we had more people working on Birchen, Red, Black-Tailed Red, SL, GL, etc instead of having so many "projects" to be working on.

And something else that really gets to me(a pet peeve I guess you would call it) is when people have imported birds of a breed and sale them for extreme prices because they were imported. I understand that every country has a different standard for what each breed then we may have, and some may be almost exact to one another, but when you buy a bird that was bred for another countries standard then how in return is that breeding birds to our standard?

Sorry to rant and rave, just my $.02.


~Casey

I feel for you on the varieties that need support and work. I also think everyone need to think about how they are going to make a good bird per the standard not just a color in a bird of hatchery quality. To do that all varieties need to be better so our projects can be worthy of our efforts..

I also agree with those that say it doesn't matter because I am the one feeding them. I also think those people need a plan to get to their goal. Without a plan you a re only making pretty chickens.


Our breed has only a few Bantam varieties that are in decent shape(Black,White, Blue, Mottled) to a lessor extent( Buff, Birchen, Partridge) everything else is a variety in need of serious work.

In large fowl there are some nice Blacks, Whites,Buffs and Partridge out there. You can find some others of quality but they are scarce. More committed breeders needed to maintain quality and diversity.