Cochin Thread!!!

JosieChick · Jun 8, 2012

Adoravachick said:
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,

They are!! That is my favorite part about them!

Funky Feathers · Jun 8, 2012

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

Hey, we're neighbors! I live in South Dorchester Co., 30 miles S of Cambridge. Where are you?

destin0709 · Jun 9, 2012

Black Cochin Bantams said:
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

I have a white hen but she has a couple gray feathers on her neck and I see a few on foot feathering and body not many but they are there. So are you saying if I breed her with a black it will bring out what she may be mixed with? Sorry I am genetically stupid! LOL. Or can white have some gray feathers here and there?

Black Cochin Bantams · Jun 9, 2012

destin0709 said:
I have a white hen but she has a couple gray feathers on her neck and I see a few on foot feathering and body not many but they are there. So are you saying if I breed her with a black it will bring out what she may be mixed with? Sorry I am genetically stupid! LOL. Or can white have some gray feathers here and there?

Yes that is what the text was saying. Try it and find out.

If it is a fleck of black on a few feathers yes they can have some color. They can not be full feathers of color only a quite small spot of black on some. Not going to the other room for my SOP so doing this from memory so if I gave her misinformation please post correct data.

destin0709 · Jun 9, 2012

Black Cochin Bantams said:
Yes that is what the text was saying. Try it and find out.

If it is a fleck of black on a few feathers yes they can have some color. They can not be full feathers of color only a quite small spot of black on some. Not going to the other room for my SOP so doing this from memory so if I gave her misinformation please post correct data.

No they are not flecks. There are full feathers in different areas. I thought maybe could be mixed with splash??

Adoravachick · Jun 9, 2012

JosieChick said:
They are!! That is my favorite part about them!