Cochin Thread!!!

[moomoodiddy]

Mine start laying at 6-7 months. Give her some extra light and if she's not molting, I bet she'll lay

there is no way for me to get a light source in their pen there are in an outside dog run my other birds r laying even though it is getting cold and i think they just went through a molt so they should be getting close

 

[moomoodiddy]

I had a serious overcrowding issue in my large pen out back. It was fine up until they were about 10-12wks old. Over the last 2 months I have slowly sold most of the birds in there and/or built pens in my 12x24 shed for the others. I think my main tail eater is one of my MFCs in one of the breeding cages in the shed now.

It looks like I have 3 pullets in the back pen with some promise. They are 5-7 months old now, so tails are really mandatory for selection at this point, lol!

Oh yes, since I didn't share.... The new pens in the shed:
I am building 2 more pens on the other side of the shed. Looks like I can get a 4x6 and a 4x5 over there.


And with birds in them:

US SOP Bantam Orps. I have a 100% English black bantam Orp I hatched from TKay's eggs to put over these girls. He suffered a hock injury a while a go, though. The swelling is gone but he still favors it. I'm not so sure I'll be able to use him.


BC looking MFCs (Father was MFC x BC and mother is my black tailed buff looking girl).
I need to sort the girls and cull the youngest cockerel. I never checked the girls to see if they all had their 3rd toe. The cockerel I know does not. Their dad threw 3rd toeless babies.


My Tom Roebuck black with my chocolate Orps. Finally, the project I started accumulating birds for last year is underway.

i love ur layout i am suppose to be building a breeding shed this winter

 

[Jharper]

Well sine the birchen cockerel died she decided to sell me her nice black cockerel. I will have to get a good picture of him. He is 6 months old I think.

 

[1TurkenLover]

Here are the pictures,silly computer..

Lovely Girls. . . if only we were closer

 

[Jharper]

 Lovely Girls. . . if only we were closer   

Mmmm... I think those are males.

 

[1TurkenLover]

How So ?

 

[Jharper]

How So ?

How old are they? Because the facial structures are looking like males to me and I can't really see the tails good.

 

[Reyvaughn]

The blue is a cockerel/roo. The blacks don't have saddle feathers that I can see, so I would say at this point they are girls - if they are young, I'd keep any eye on them. They could still be roos.

 

[Dello]

Well, they may be roos, they are May 2013 babies and I have never had that breed before. If they are roos they are free to a good home,as I have too many. They have grown a lot since I got them from my mother a month ago. When she bought them she was told they would be bantam cochin pullets. I hope they are done growing,they are over a foot tall at the top of their backs

 

[Reyvaughn]

Well, they may be roos, they are May 2013 babies and I have never had that breed before. If they are roos they are free to a good home,as I have too many. They have grown a lot since I got them from my mother a month ago. When she bought them she was told they would be bantam cochin pullets. I hope they are done growing,they are over a foot tall at the top of their backs

Nope, not done yet! another 4-6 months maybe.