Cochin Thread!!!

[davony's chicks]

Congratulations Tony!! I hope for a few to hatch out this week also. Keep it up.

Thanks Craig!
These guys went for so long with out laying and now they are starting to lay. I hope I get some really nice birds. Time will tell....

I hope I get some as nice as yours.
I am still looking for a couple of hens. I may replace two hens or at least one.

 

[BScott03]

Love these fluffy butts and I'm really wanting some now! Hoping my husband doesn't kill me!

 

[cieraphoto]

Does anyone know what variety this little one is? My best guess is Silver Penciled. It's a bantam Cochin. It's about 3 weeks old. Thanks!

 

[Jharper]

Does anyone know what variety this little one is? My best guess is Silver Penciled. It's a bantam Cochin. It's about 3 weeks old. Thanks!

Maybe partridge. It's hard to tell sometimes when they are that young.

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

Chicks hatched over the last 8 days. After early hatching issues I am now getting plenty of healthy chicks each week. There are Columbians, Buff Columbian, Black, Partridge, and Silver Penciled in there for sure.

Craig

 

[Frizzled Pink]

Chicks hatched over the last 8 days. After early hatching issues I am now getting plenty of healthy chicks each week. There are Columbians, Buff Columbian, Black, Partridge, and Silver Penciled in there for sure.

Craig

 

[Missyktsm]

Chicks hatched over the last 8 days. After early hatching issues I am now getting plenty of healthy chicks each week. There are Columbians, Buff Columbian, Black, Partridge, and Silver Penciled in there for sure. Craig

Wow! That's a lot of chicks...congrats!

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

Wow! That's a lot of chicks...congrats!

Thank you. I could only do it with an incubator that can handle enough eggs. Each level is a different weeks worth of eggs. Until this year I had 5 small foam type incubators that I would use. It worked but required lots more planning and monitoring. I still use the Genesis Hovabators to hatch in.

 

[davony's chicks]

Chicks hatched over the last 8 days. After early hatching issues I am now getting plenty of healthy chicks each week. There are Columbians, Buff Columbian, Black, Partridge, and Silver Penciled in there for sure.

Craig

Thank you. I could only do it with an incubator that can handle enough eggs. Each level is a different weeks worth of eggs. Until this year I had 5 small foam type incubators that I would use. It worked but required lots more planning and monitoring. I still use the Genesis Hovabators to hatch in.

Congratulations Craig!
I am happy to hear your hatching improved! And look at those lovely chicks!

I on the other hand started off with great hatches and the last 2 have been terrible! This last hatch I lost all 3 buff columbians that were in there. These darn crappy little giant incubators are the worst! My humidity and temps have been way out of control. One of the buff columbian chicks started to zip but was too dry and he was shrink wrapped and the other 2 didn't even make it that far!

I am seriously thinking about investing in a nice incubator! I don't have near enough eggs to keep it full but I am tired of losing chicks!

I set 2 buff columbian eggs under a broody mottled hen so I hope she does a good job. I have a few more buff columbian eggs to put in the incubator and they have been laying well so hopefully I will get some buff columbian chicks soon.

If you end up having some chicks to sell later please let me know.
Tony

 

[Jharper]

My Cochin bantam is trying to be a little pig and hoard all the eggs in both nest boxes.