Cochin Thread!!!

[AndyCap]

well, i'm not 30 anymore, but I still like that stuff too... grew up with my grandparents listening to that all the time. and mom was part of a 'roaring 20s' group too when I was in jr high. 8)

i am sure you had some great influences, at the moment i am on a Ben Webster kick. Some great music!

I love eccentric folks and it sounds like you fit the bill.

If you make it to the states and need a place to stay, you're welcome here Andy. I don't think there are any jazz clubs around me (rural Ohio), but Cincinnati (50 miles) isn't very far away and I'm sure there are some places there. Also Dayton, which is about 30 miles from me, has some great clubs. The city population is predominantly black and the downtown area has some really great music spots. I've also got some friends there that can turn you on to some great off beat places. The Dayton Oregon District is also a great area with a variety of eateries and young performing artists looking for their break through.

Thanks Nancy. If i ever come back i think it will be more of a poultry tour then a holiday! So many breeders to see and so many more States to visit!

 

[sbucciarel]

They all seem to do doing ok now but for one or 2. They're both crusty, and the one seems kinda more so than the rest. So I'm wondering if it hurts to move, like if it's movements are stretching and pulling the skin. I will go and run them under warm water & use my finger and put them back in the incubator for a cpl hrs. Thanks! 

I've had that happen a couple of times and run the chick under warm water and remove it. Check the humidity in the incubator. Sounds like your lockdown humidity is too low.

 

[cochins1088]

Speaking of broody hens... I had one that simply would not give up no matter what I did. I threw her outside, put her in a metal cage, took her eggs everyday, but she was persistent. I don't hatch chicks this time of year because nearly all of my colors are mixed together and I won't be setting up breeding pens until November.

Anyways, I gave in and let her have 3 eggs. One ended up rotten while the other 2 ended up hatching. One chick is all white and the other has a pattern that I think may be silver laced. In the pen I took the eggs from I had a barred rooster, 2 silver laced roosters, a white frizzle hen, a birchen hen, a barred hen, a silver penciled hen, a gold laced hen, a millie fleur hen, and 5 silver laced hens (3 laying).

So here's the chick. Does it look like a true silver laced?

 

[annewandering]

Is this a Splash Blue? He is about 10 weeks old and was bought as a Blue. They did say that the chances were 25% that it would be splash. I have never seen one before but it does look like it might be to me. Is it?

 

[chick-among-us]

Is this a Splash Blue? He is about 10 weeks old and was bought as a Blue. They did say that the chances were 25% that it would be splash. I have never seen one before but it does look like it might be to me. Is it?

That's what I would call it. If it was one of my chickens thats the color I would say it was blue splash.

 

[kabhyper1]

So I moved her. After finding multiple eggs that weren't marked under her today, and three hens in the nesting box with her enabling her egg stealing problem, I moved her to the barn. She was a bit confused at first, but ate and drank and pooed and went back to the eggs. I accidentally broke one of the eggs she was sitting on this morning, so there are twelve now. But it was developing, the blastoderm/ target, was larger than a fresh egg. I felt badly, but she has twelve more to work with and there are three eggs in the silkie coop this morning, plus the four layed by the big girls, so I'm not short on fertile eggs at all. lol I plan on letting her out for 15 minutes a day with the flock, so she can keep her place in the pecking order.

She's in there, just hard to see.

 

[joanie_maine]

Is this a Splash Blue? He is about 10 weeks old and was bought as a Blue. They did say that the chances were 25% that it would be splash. I have never seen one before but it does look like it might be to me. Is it?

Is this a Splash Blue? He is about 10 weeks old and was bought as a Blue. They did say that the chances were 25% that it would be splash. I have never seen one before but it does look like it might be to me. Is it?

It's splash...no such thing as "blue splash".

 

[chick-among-us]

I didn't know that!

 

[annewandering]

I didn't know that!

Me either! So help me understand this. What exactly is Splash classified as then? Is it a group of its own but not by color or what?

 

[ki4got]

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splash is the homozygous version of blue... it has 2 copies of the blue gene, while blue only has 1. so the true-breeding version of blue IS splash. when bred to black you get 100% blues. blue to blue you'd get 25% black, 50% blue and 25% splash.

that's why it's usually referred to as bbs. blue black splash. the 3 color variations that are in the same 'color family' so to speak. a black will never carry blue, since it's a dominant gene.