Cochin Thread!!!

[ki4got]

yeah, so if you breed a black cochin with a white cochin would you get about 25% white 25% black and 50% blue? or am i wrong?

nope. that's wrong... the percentages would be for splash blue and black. there are no predictable results for breeding white to black because both white and black can hide a number of other mutations.

 

[ki4got]

Having said all of that, black to recessive white will give you 100% black offspring in the f1, any colour to dominant white should give you white, but with leakage.

let me rephrase that for you...

breeding dominant black to recessive white will give you all black in the F1 generation, IF they aren't carrying any other mutations. that is rarely the case though.

 

[ki4got]

I had a few cochin chicks hatch out recently from some free ranged eggs of unknown origin. well I know where they were, but not who laid them or what sired them. LOL I thought they were my SFH pullet eggs. hatched out 1 totally buff baby and 1 totally black chick (no white on him). I know black chicks typically have some white. I also have 2 that hatched out nearly silver (one has a reddish tinge to his head tho) but their foot feathering isn't great so they're probably mixes i'm guessing. one almost looks like self blue, but I don't have any that carry that anymore, as far as I know.

what I have for cochins in the yard are splash, blue mottled, black mottled, red, mille fleur, blue mille, blue partridge and silver laced. the splash MAY be mottled also since she came from the same line as the blue mottled.

what i'm wondering, is what color produces a solid black chick with no white/yellow markings? is it birchen? if so I've got that hiding somewhere among my birds.

the black silver and buff babies - you can see what I mean about the toes on the silver (likely splash)

black by himself

and the 'golden' silver baby...

 

[LOVEMYCHICKS03]

So if you bred a partridge cochin to a partridge cochin that might have something els in there genes would they not always turn out looking like partridge?

 

[LOVEMYCHICKS03]

Does anyone have a banty cochin hen for sale?

 

you might want to go on the buy sell trade part of BYC KK?

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

yeah, so if you breed a black cochin with a white cochin would you get about 25% white 25% black and 50% blue? or am i wrong?

NO

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

So if you bred a partridge cochin to a partridge cochin that might have something els in there genes would they not always turn out looking like partridge?

That is correct that it is possible to have something hidden. Unless both are carrying that hidden gene you are most likely to get Partridge from a Partridge x Partridge mating.

 

[AndyCap]

So if you bred a partridge cochin to a partridge cochin that might have something els in there genes would they not always turn out looking like partridge?

That is correct that it is possible to have something hidden. Unless both are carrying that hidden gene you are most likely to get Partridge from a Partridge x Partridge mating.

like this. both of these are from partridge X partridge breeding. Neither of the parents show anything. So even though both parents look "normal" partridge, they are both hiding mottling.

 

[LOVEMYCHICKS03]

Oh wow! They're really cute! Are they older now?

 

[AndyCap]

what i'm wondering, is what color produces a solid black chick with no white/yellow markings? is it birchen? if so I've got that hiding somewhere among my birds.



black by himself

i can see some white on that chest

i got a few like from my cross to partridge, the rest all had much whiter chests, and white spots around the eyes, this little pullet didnt though. Is that what you are referring to?