Cochin Thread!!!

[mama2my4]

Keeping birds can be so heartbreaking -
I lost my Blue Mottled hen. She was fine one Monday but dead Tuesday morning.
I have got to change my avitar pic because I can't bear to look at pictures of her right now.

I am so sorry.

 

[mjgigax]

Can anyone tell if this guy has vulture hock?
It is not a very good pic but I can't get this guy to stand still.

 

[mjgigax]

Oh what a naughty little bugger! He needs some corporal cuddling. I scoop up my bantam cochin boys and carry them around and scratch their necks. After a while they come to respect you, some even get to like the attention. I used to have one black that would fall asleep in my arms.

I never would have mixed bantams and standard fowl when I first started but over the winter it is so much easier to have them all running together so they can share heated water bowls. One night I went out and I always do a head count at bed time to make sure everyone made it in. Well I counted and was missing a cochin hen. I looked all over for her and finally started looking on the perches and she was jammed between two LF orp girls and was just gone in the fluff! What a nice place to sleep with two big orp down blankets!

A friend has a Showgirl pullet that is best friends with her LF Splash Cochin roo. If she can't find the pullet she has learned to check under the roo first.

 

[NanaKat]

MJ...change your avatar to your gorgeous Peaches!

 

[wwmicasa1]

Keeping birds can be so heartbreaking -
I lost my Blue Mottled hen. She was fine one Monday but dead Tuesday morning.
I have got to change my avitar pic because I can't bear to look at pictures of her right now.

 

[lilcrow]

Hi everyone! I would like some opinions on my buff Cochin Bantams I got from Urch/Turnland poultry. Gender would be helpful as well, but it's looking like they are all cockerels. :/ They turned 5 weeks on Monday.

Cockerel (?) #1

Lighting was different in this picture:







Cockerel #2






I had a picture of his head, but he would NOT coroporate so it turned out blurry.

Cockerel (Or maybe this is my pullet)? #3







Weird lighting in this picture, but it really shows his/her head.





Sorry for the dirty foot feathers. The reason I took pictures of those is because on #1, I think it was, had feathering on the smallest toe. Is this a major defect in a Cochin? I'm hoping to start breeding Cochins with these guys, if they turn out decent enough. Thanks for any help.

I'm a bit skeptical of what I think I'm seeing. To me they all look like pullets. I would have expected a lot more development of combs and wattles if they were males.

 

[destin0709]

lilcrow:
Most of my chickens came from luckypickens and they are just for me not for showing or anything. I just wanted more colors, my favorite coloring are the calico/milles, but was wondering what I could do with the ones that really didn't have a match like the lavendar hen and the buff columbian roo and the partridge roo. I did mix the partridge rooster with a buff hen but got all buff chicks with some black on them.

 

[Fancy Feathers]

Keeping birds can be so heartbreaking -
I lost my Blue Mottled hen. She was fine one Monday but dead Tuesday morning.
I have got to change my avitar pic because I can't bear to look at pictures of her right now.

Oh no

 

[dwegg]

Keeping birds can be so heartbreaking -
I lost my Blue Mottled hen. She was fine one Monday but dead Tuesday morning.
I have got to change my avitar pic because I can't bear to look at pictures of her right now.

Oh no I'm so sorry...was she sick?

 

[davony's chicks]

Keeping birds can be so heartbreaking -
I lost my Blue Mottled hen. She was fine one Monday but dead Tuesday morning.
I have got to change my avitar pic because I can't bear to look at pictures of her right now.

So sad. Sorry for your loss. It is very hearbreaking when you lose one.