Cochin Thread!!!

[Sanna]

It'll be good practice for our first show in April.

 

[Mr. Ree]

Couldnt remember if I had posted the pic I took of the Red pair I decided to keep or not, so I thought Id share it. If I have posted it before, I apologize.

Again, type is far from good, but its something to start with. Color is there for sure. This pic is a few weeks old, and they both have actually filled out a little more, they dont look so leggy or like they are so narrow looking.




~Casey

 

[riversedgefarm]

IfHi everyone I'm just starting to get some cochins little by little I have 1 pair of calico and some blues and such my questions is I found some very nice mottled hens and havnt found a rooster yet but I do have a very nice millie rooster. If I put the mottled in with the millie roo what would that make anyone have a guess???

 

[davony's chicks]

Glad you made it up today. We are going to get 3 to 8 inches of snow tonight depending on which weatherman you believe. I hope you enjoy them like I do. Also hope you picked up some helpful information and useful ideas.

Craig

I did come away with some very useful information and ideas. I love the great idea you had about the back up heat for the brooder! You will have to share that idea on here for everyone! I did learn some breeding pointers and wished I had more time to spend picking your brain! With the weather so nasty all I could think about was getting on the road. I had wanted to see your SOP. I got my hard back cover from the APA and was disappointed at the tiny section dedicated to bantam cochins! It doesn't even mention anything about colors just the basic black, blue and buff! I really hoped to have some wing pattern information on columbians, but you were helpful in that area.
My trip was longer on the way home because my stupid GPS took me home on a completely different path!!! It took me west on 34 to 63 south. 63 from Iowa down is just 2 lanes all the way to south of Kirksville! With heavy rain it was a slooooow trip! Oh well, I made it home safe.
I sure could have spent much more time there talking and learning.
Thank you so much!

Sounds like quite a trip!
Looking forward to seeing pictures after you & they are all settled

I had hoped to get pictures last night. I will get some soon. The weather here turned nasty cold and snowy and blowing wind today and is supposed to last a few days! YUK!

Entries will be accepted for the Cochins International Online All-Cochin Show between February 1st and Midnight, February 7th. All details are on the Cochins International website on the Online Shows tab. www.CochinsInt.com

Thanks for the information! I will have to enter my new arrivals!

I'm washing my guys too!! And boy are they ANNOYED

He loooks very annoyed! I will be bathing too!

 

[AndyCap]

Hey all,

a pic of one of my first generation partridge X black chicks, this little boy shows a few things i am a bit concerned about.
His feet are yellow underneath but mostly black on top and his beak is black. I was hoping to keep the best girl from this generation to cross back to partidge to improve the type of my partridges. Unfortunately all of the chicks have black beaks, and all have black legs.





My partridge cockerel is looking better though, although i am still concerned about the under colour in the tail, the grey feathers are still very visible, but i am hoping that because he is only five or six months old that these will fade. He had a beautiful 5 point comb too until he got taught a lesson by my dominant hen. Poor boy. Here he is with his first chicks and the broody i used to hatch them.





i am more then a little bit surprised at just how good this boy is, after reading all the horror stories about roosters on this forum.
He makes his girls a nest when i put fresh straw in the coop, always calls them for food, doesnt mind being picked up, always put himself in between them and danger and never pecks me.
He is behaving very well around the chicks too, he still dances for their mom but doesnt try to mount her.

All in all he is a fantastic boy, very noisy, but a great flock master, it seems there are very good boys out there

 

[thecochincoop]

I have a pair of splash red columbian bantams that need homes. They are both sweet and the cockerel has to be one of the sweetest birds I've owned. They can be shipped as long as it's above freezing. the pullet is about 3 months old here and cockerel about 4.5 months

 

[guineaguy]

hey Casey will you give an honest critique of this cockerel thanks

 

[guineaguy]

His tail is still filling out from a very hard first moult.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Entries will be accepted for the Cochins International Online All-Cochin Show between February 1st and Midnight, February 7th. All details are on the Cochins International website on the Online Shows tab. www.CochinsInt.com

We are NOW accepting entries thru Midnight, February 7th. We are happy to announce that Jamie Matts will be judging our Premier Show.

http://www.cochinsint.com/about-online-shows.html

 

[Sanna]

We are NOW accepting entries thru Midnight, February 7th. We are happy to announce that Jamie Matts will be judging our Premier Show.

http://www.cochinsint.com/about-online-shows.html

Darn it! I'm not a member of CI and doubt that I would make it even if I sent my form in today. It's sitting here on the table, filled out.