Cochin Thread!!!

[ROCKIN R FARM]

well now at least you have a helper to help you hatch out some eggs.

 

[County Boy]

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

this isn't a cochin batam but I've got a 10 month old brahma bantam that keeps getting more eggs under her. She's got 18 now. she covers every one and then my cochin bantam has 13.

 

[DANNY]

I have some cochin eggs listed here on BYC if anybody is interested.

 

[Funky Feathers]

I have some cochin eggs listed here on BYC if anybody is interested.

I saw, you have some interesting (and pretty) colors.

 

[NancyWicker]

Danny, what color is the roo in your avatar? (Gorgeous!)
I can't wait wait wait for my eggs from you!

 

[DANNY]

He is chocolate/dun. It will be a while before any eggs are available.

Danny, what color is the roo in your avatar? (Gorgeous!)
I can't wait wait wait for my eggs from you!

 

[Grumpypantsmomma]

Thanks everyone for all your advice on my first broody! She only has 2 fertile eggs under her the other one was hers and infertile We will see what happens! I really hope they hatch, she is such a sweetheart and would be a great momma! Both of my Cochins have gone broody but only the one hen Which has been on her eggs for a week is going stung. the other one i had to pull out of the pen as well because she wasn't letting anybody into any of the nesting boxes to lay and was standing guard, my other girls stopped laying and some of them would drop them outside so they wouldn't have to muscle with her i have plenty of nesting boxes for them too. I watched her do it Every time one of them would go to lay she would continuously peck them until they gave up or just flat chase them out of the coop. everybody is much happier now that she is not in the flock even the little Roo, I wasn't to give her some eggs to see if she will settle down, but i have a feeling she just needs time away from the flock and the flock from her.

 

[County Boy]

Goodluck with your broody. I've got a batch of eggs in the bator due the 14th and 3 broodies due over the next 2 weeks.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Hi Danny,
Have you had a chance to do much breeding with him yet to know if he is Dun or Chocolate? I've read that they (all those "experts" out there) believe that Chocolate is a separate gene from Dun, and is much the same except that it is recessive.


He's gorgeous no matter what his genetic makeup is!

He is chocolate/dun. It will be a while before any eggs are available.


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[DANNY]

I actually breed these birds from scratch and they are Dun. The difference being they do not breed true. If you breed Chocolate/Dun to Chocolate/Dun you get Black, Kahki and Chocolate colored birds. If you breed the Kahki to Black you get all Chocolate colored birds. Kahki delutes the Black. With Self Chocolate there is no delution. You breed Chocolate to Chocolate you get all Chocolate or Chocolate to Black you get Chocolate and Black. No Kahki is involved. Chocolate is sex-linked reccesive and as you say dun is recessive. Dun works like blue. I think this is right. If anybody knows more please chime in.

Hi Danny,
Have you had a chance to do much breeding with him yet to know if he is Dun or Chocolate? I've read that they (all those "experts" out there) believe that Chocolate is a separate gene from Dun, and is much the same except that it is recessive.


He's gorgeous no matter what his genetic makeup is!