Cochin Thread!!!

[Grumpypantsmomma]

I picked up a few chicks yesterday and posted them on the "what breed am I thread". The first poster thinks they are all bantam Cochins, so now I'm curious what colors they might be since I didn't think there were Cochin colors. I know very little about Cochins since I just picked up chicks of this breed this year.
Can anyone identify colors?




This one has a faint barring type pattern, even on it's foot feathers.



This one I thought might be a porcelain D'Uccle, but I guess not?

The first two pics look like Buff brahma chicks, the third pic unsure, and the 4th pic looks like a porcelain booted bantam chick. but i am no expert.

 

[County Boy]

Do golden laced cochin roosters tend to always be red because I've been breading them for 2 years and every roo is red. Do they ever mature to be gold. The hens that hatch have really nice quality lacing though.

 

[lilcrow]

What did you order?

The first two pics look like Buff brahma chicks, the third pic unsure, and the 4th pic looks like a porcelain booted bantam chick. but i am no expert.

 

[ki4got]

What did you order?

the chicks were feed store birds from ideal hatchery. not mine, but i was chatting IM with the person that posted them...

 

[ki4got]

I have to say those 2 blue partridge girls that were posted back a week or so ago, look much better in person.

my mille roo (who will get them) is in love already even tho he can't get close to them yet. LOL he's long distance flirting right now. even hubby thought they were interesting. and that's something from someone who's favorites are the oegb LOL

 

[TexasChick09]

Yes, Ki4got has been trying to help me via IM and yes, they are hatchery chicks from Ideal. I didn't order anything, I just took over ones that someone else ordered (mixed bantams) and never showed up to get.

I thought the bottom was a Porcelain D'Uccle, but then I was told it might be a Cochin, but couldn't find any Cochins that color. I still think it could be a D'Uccle.

When I went home yesterday, I inspected the top 2 chicks better and realized they do not have single combs, so I believe they are Buff Brahmas. I'm still stuck on the light buff chick and the black chick. I think they could be Cochins possibly, but I have no idea what the buff color could grow up to be.

Thanks everyone for the help!

 

[Bluegrass Chick]

Ok so I have a question, I am new to having chickens. I really Just want a few (but they are addicting) a friend of mine got a shipment of eggs of ebay, which were suppose to be a sortment of Bantams. I got two of these, one of which didnt make it, I have been told that the black one i have is a cochin. It is 6 weeks old now and has grown a little bit, but still has no feathers besides its wings which it has had since about 2 weeks of age. Is this normal, I have a one that is two weeks younger that has substancially more feathering, and the others from the hatch do has well.

 

[ki4got]

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Ok so I have a question, I am new to having chickens. I really Just want a few (but they are addicting) a friend of mine got a shipment of eggs of ebay, which were suppose to be a sortment of Bantams. I got two of these, one of which didnt make it, I have been told that the black one i have is a cochin. It is 6 weeks old now and has grown a little bit, but still has no feathers besides its wings which it has had since about 2 weeks of age. Is this normal, I have a one that is two weeks younger that has substancially more feathering, and the others from the hatch do has well.

are any neck feathers coming in yet? my guess is it's a birchen. they tend to feather slower than solid blacks. my little birchen girl didn't feather in fully until well over a month old. also from ideal via a rabbit show exhibitor LOL.

the black all the way to the left is the same hatch as the white on the right... (yes i mix ages of babies when they're small groups)

 

[TexasChick09]

I want blue prints on how you made that feeder ki4got..lol. I especially like the handy dandy handle.

 

[ki4got]

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I want blue prints on how you made that feeder ki4got..lol. I especially like the handy dandy handle.

1 plastic base to the mason-jar style waterer, 1 1 qt paint mixing container from lowes, 1 piece heavy wire. i used copper clad rod from hubby's welding mix. lol

drilled a hole in the peak of the base, bottom of the quart container. bent a loop on the wire to hold it on the bottom, pushed up thru and another loop at the top to hang it with. then to fill you just slide the cup up the wire (upside down) and fill and slide back to make contact with the bottom. oh and i cut notches for the feed to come out on the edge of the container. 4 of them spaced around, about 1" long and about 1/2" high. works great for small chicks but the bigger babies drain it fast.