Cochin Thread!!!

[missmedic2]

anyone want to guess if this Bantam Cochin is a pullet or roo??? she is super sweet and if she is a roo we will have to sell her. Any thoughts??? Thanks She is 5 1/2 weeks old.

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[ShysCreations]

With the prominent comb & wattle showing, I'd say cockerel

 

[BunnyMomma]

Here is an update on the tiny homely wet chick with the quarter. I called the chick "Teenie Tiny".
Here it is all dry and fluffy! The other chick is a small bantam cochin chick but not a "Baby Doll"
Both hatched on the same day.

 

[Grumpypantsmomma]

Well hello again Cochin friends, My Black cochin bantam has been setting on her eggs for 6 days now but has not gotten up to eat or drink in the last 3, is this normal? I was worried so I made her get up and she stood ate like she was starving and drank some but then hunkered down by the food dish instead of her nesting box with the eggs. So I picked her up and put her back on them as i could feel them cooling down, she has since readjusted on her eggs. am I going to have to do this often with her or will she get hungry enough to get up on her own and eat and drink, she also took her broody poop in the nesting box without even getting up

. This is my first time with a broody and her first time actually brooding because the eggs were already two days developed I said heck with it and let her continue. I had to take her away from the rest of the flock because they wanted to lay in her nesting box and she wouldn't let them then they all stopped laying. So she is in a broody pen in the house where i can keep an eye on her but not where she should get stressed.
Any advice would be awesome!

 

[ROCKIN R FARM]

going to agree, that it's a roo

 

[ROCKIN R FARM]

Hello,
just read your post about your Cochin and yes its normal for them to not get up and get anything to eat or drink. She will get up and eat and drink when she is ready too. Taking her out of the pen away from the others was a good move as well. I have had to that as well. You are doing just fine, just relax and let her do her thing she knows what she needs to do believe it or not. And do not feel bad i was the same way the first time I had seen one of my hens do this too.
And sometimes when I am not to sure if they are eating or drinking and the way my pens are set up I can give them small bowls of food near them and water as well. So this way they do not have to get up and walk to far to get what they need but enough so they can stretch their legs too.
In fact I just had to do this with a Buff that I have. But she stopped sitting on her eggs and it was because they were not going to hatch. I candled them to make sure.
we are here if you need anything else.
deana

Well hello again Cochin friends, My Black cochin bantam has been setting on her eggs for 6 days now but has not gotten up to eat or drink in the last 3, is this normal? I was worried so I made her get up and she stood ate like she was starving and drank some but then hunkered down by the food dish instead of her nesting box with the eggs. So I picked her up and put her back on them as i could feel them cooling down, she has since readjusted on her eggs. am I going to have to do this often with her or will she get hungry enough to get up on her own and eat and drink, she also took her broody poop in the nesting box without even getting up

. This is my first time with a broody and her first time actually brooding because the eggs were already two days developed I said heck with it and let her continue. I had to take her away from the rest of the flock because they wanted to lay in her nesting box and she wouldn't let them then they all stopped laying. So she is in a broody pen in the house where i can keep an eye on her but not where she should get stressed.
Any advice would be awesome!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

My Splash Cochin hen went broody....just when I wanted her to keep on laying! Arrhhgg!! Oh well, I'll just give her some of her own eggs to sit on, I was going to hatch them out anyway.

~ Aspen

 

[Featherland26]

On the subject of broodies, I put 8 bantam cochin eggs under my bantam cochin hen, is that too much?

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

On the subject of broodies, I put 8 bantam cochin eggs under my bantam cochin hen, is that too much?

8 eggs is too many for most of my hens but I do have 1 that has hatched 10 before.

 

[thecochincoop]

I was keeping 6-8 call duck eggs under my broodies

On the subject of broodies, I put 8 bantam cochin eggs under my bantam cochin hen, is that too much?