Cochin Thread!!!

[ki4got]

If I have a flock of whites, blacks and blues will I get all three of those colors plus splash in the resulting chicks?

Thanks,

which are the roos and hens? white is usually recessive to black, so bred to a black you'll get black, to a blue you'll get blue or black. black to blue again you'll get both, blue to blue you'll get black blue and splash.

so no, i doubt you'd get any whites, probably mostly blue and black.

 

[hannahwren]

Ok! I have a question.

I have a Blue Bantam Cochin Rooster in the coop with 3 black bantam cochin hens and 2 blue bantam cochin hens. In another coop I have a White Bantam Cochin Rooster, who helps his self to the girls when let out to run around in the back yard!!!

What do you think they will look like?

 

[hannahwren]

 

[hannahwren]

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

Ok! I have a question.

I have a Blue Bantam Cochin Rooster in the coop with 3 black bantam cochin hens and 2 blue bantam cochin hens. In another coop I have a White Bantam Cochin Rooster, who helps his self to the girls when let out to run around in the back yard!!!

What do you think they will look like?

All chickens have black and red (gold). These are the only colors in chickens. All the different patterns and colors depend on either restricting or enhancing these two colors

Ii -- Dominate white. effective in changing black to white but not so good on red e.g. creaminess on whites. Birds with Ii will have some black spots on breast.
cc -- Recessive white --Changes both black and red to white. Working with recessive white can be tricky as it "white washes" a bird. It may have the phenotype of a totally different color or even a nonstandard color underneath the white. The only way to determine what the white is hiding is to mate it to a black bird. You can get barred, polecats, etc.
Blue to Blue = 50% Blue, 25% Splash, 25% Black
Splash to Blue = 50% Blue, 50% Splash
Splash to Black = 100% Blue
Splash to Splash = 100% Splash
Blue to Black = 50% Blue, 50% Black
Craig

 

[ki4got]

Ok! I have a question.

I have a Blue Bantam Cochin Rooster in the coop with 3 black bantam cochin hens and 2 blue bantam cochin hens. In another coop I have a White Bantam Cochin Rooster, who helps his self to the girls when let out to run around in the back yard!!! What do you think they will look like?

like all the rest of the chicks you get probably... like i said just a couple posts ago. white's recessive to black, so your chicks will all be just like the black's chicks.

 

[Adoravachick]

I've got a little black bantam cochin pullet and she is the sweetest little thing. She is certainly one of my faves next to the silkies. Are cochins known to be chatty? Some days I feel like she is is clucking her whole life story to me,

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

If I have a flock of whites, blacks and blues will I get all three of those colors plus splash in the resulting chicks?

Thanks,

Please read post 9961. I think I copied and posted all the applicable information to answer your question.

 

[PiecesofAmber]

Here's my baby buff: She's in the middle. It's a group shot...she's two weeks old.

 

[ki4got]

Please read post 9961. I think I copied and posted all the applicable information to answer your question.

you did... but i have 1 thing to say regarding that... sorry it's a pet peeve.

genes are not dominate they are dominant.

other than that it is a good post.

edit: this was not directed at anyone on this thread, but to the original author of the page that was quoted... i just mentioned this because some people may be new to cochins or poultry genetics and not realize that's an error.