Cochin Thread!!!

[Dianne88]

Thanks

[COLOR=0000CD] I would say yes those are Splash chicks. Other then the black on its beak it looks the same as mine did at 1 week old.[/COLOR] [COLOR=0000CD]And I want to say those are Silver Laced not Gold Laced because of the gray stripes on their back but that close up of that first one you posted does have a very brown head, so your most likely right about those ones. With my chicks the ones with the gray stripes on their back all turned out Silver Laced and a few of them did have a light brown on the top of their head. My Gold Laced chicks were just a very dark brown almost black in color with a lighter brown on the top of their head. Silver, Gold, and Splash are the only colors I have raised so I'm not familiar with how other color chicks are suppose to look. As for sexing, I could tell who was a little boy by the time they were 3 weeks old. By 3 weeks the boys should have a bit taller and darker comb then the girls.[/COLOR] [COLOR=0000CD]Your chicks are very cute and I love that Black EE! You'll need to keep us updated on how they feather out![/COLOR]

, I can only keep a few due to the fact the coop is getting crowded, this is why I want to pick out a couple of pullets. I'm keeping a black OE and a black mystery chick. I will post pics in a week or so of the Cochin I keep.

 

[flynntheduck]

I got me a black cochin today! The feed store says she is a month old bantam. Does she look that old? Does she look like a bantam? This feed store doesn't seem to know much about their chicks.

The other chick (small one) is a 10 day old golden laced Wyandotte.

 

[flynntheduck]

I got me a black cochin today! The feed store says she is a month old bantam. Does she look that old? Does she look like a bantam? This feed store doesn't seem to know much about their chicks.

The other chick (small one) is a 10 day old golden laced Wyandotte.

 

[WendyF]

Cinder is beautiful! Your Cochins have much better feet feathering than my 9 week old Xena (you didn't hear that from me). They are so gorgeous!

 

[BlueChick62]

This is my blue roo. He's a bantam blue Cochin. 15 weeks old. I have his two black sisters and a Wyandotte cross that is mottled brown and white. I'm patiently waiting for my fist egg. My chickens were hatched in my second grade classroom on May 7th. My students loved the hatching process. We candled eggs along the way and watched them develop. The whole school was excited on hatching day!

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

This is my blue roo. He's a bantam blue Cochin. 15 weeks old. I have his two black sisters and a Wyandotte cross that is mottled brown and white. I'm patiently waiting for my fist egg. My chickens were hatched in my second grade classroom on May 7th. My students loved the hatching process. We candled eggs along the way and watched them develop. The whole school was excited on hatching day!

Congratulations. I am so happy to see you used this as a teaching opportunity. Hope you are allowed to do this again.

 

[mindylee]

I collected 3 dozen (actually 38) eggs yesterday. My girls are on a roll!

I had a huge red tail hawk watching the coop run yesterday too. When I walked out to free range them, the hawk took off and there wasn't a chicken in sight. I giggled as I walked into the barn and every single chicken was hanging out in the coop dust bathing and 2 roos sitting in the doorway keeping an eye on the sky. I'm guessing that's y I got so many eggs. The hawk scared the eggs right out of them. Lol.
But of the looks of it, the flight netting over the run is doing its job as everyone was there safe and sound. It didn't look like the hawk even tried as there was no hawk feathers in the netting anywhere. BUT I do give the hawk a benefit of the doubt... It was a older wiser adult and was only watching for someone on the outside of the pen. Its the younger Jr hawks that are more of an issue as they don't know how to hunt just perfectly so chickens are easy pickins. And their the ones that slam into my flight netting and causing ruckus. After the mature hawk flew to the other side of the field to his other sitting tree, I let everyone out to free range for a couple he's while I was out there cleaning and doing chores. Eventually the hawk flew off and was never seen again last night.

 

[kabhyper1]

My little Sunny is 5 months old now. I think she is getting really cute.

If I bred her to him, what would I get, just black chicks?

 

[mindylee]

Most likely black or black with min golden lace leakage

 

[BrandyJK]

Is it possible that 15 week old bantam cockerel is fertile? He perfected his dance and "technique" a few weeks ago. I don't want to crack the only hen's eggs that is laying to check for bullseye, I want to collect them for incubating.