Cochin Thread!!!

[joshbparker]

Thanks. Are yours standard or bantams

 

[guineaguy]

hey nancy compton thought you might like to see how nice a pullets the birchen hens you sold me are producing!!

 

[guineaguy]

another pullet different view

 

[guineaguy]

 

[mindylee]

Ohhhh
Them gals are beautiful.

 

[kabhyper1]

Thanks. Are yours standard or bantams

both.

 

[Rafter H Farms]

This will be my first post on BYC so I hope I do it right. Sorry if this is not completely relevant . My wife and I just wanted to tell you how beautiful your flock of fluffy feather foots is. My mother raised both standard and bantam cochins when I was a youngster but my wife and I have only had standard cochins , until recently. We love our standard barred cochin hens though they don't lay very well because they are the sweetest girls and the best mother hens on earth in our opinion. My wife was at the feed store a few weeks ago and they were selling the last of their chicks at a bargain. I remember how excited my wife was when she called saying " They have chicks on sale and they have some cochins ! Can we have some ? Can we ? Huh ? Can we ? " Well , what was I to do but say yes. Right away upon seeing my wifes purchase I noticed the two cochins seemed smallish but my wife told me that the lady at the feed store assured her they were standard cochins so .... Well , now , a few weeks later and sadly the little cochin roo passed on for unexplained reasons but the little "standard buff cochin" hen has indeed turned out to be NOT a standard. She is however a very spunky , friendly and curious little bantam cochin that we absolutely adore. It was a happy accident so to say and now we are contemplating getting more bantam cochins in the future. We'll have to see how well she gets along with our large fowl flock but if her attitude and personality are indicative of the breed I think they will do fine.
I do have one question if I may. Do the bantam cochins share the same traits as the standards ?

 

[kabhyper1]

I find that the bantams are a little more bold than the standard, or large fowl Cochins. For instance my little black bantam roo Oliver is a little Napoleon. He thinks he is big, and not a shy bone in his little body. I have 2 large Cochin roos in my flock and they are very mild and get along with everyone. My Large Cochin hens are sweet but sort of shy, not flighty just shy. My bantam hens are right in my business all the time. They think I am a scratch and cracked corn dispenser. All birds are different, but as a whole, all sizes of my Cochins are very sweet birds.

 

[Rafter H Farms]

Thank you kabhyper1 for sharing your experience with the two apparently different birds. We have a large variety of birds and I enjoy them all but I look most forward to checking on our little hen each evening when I come in from the fields. She's a hoot.

 

[jaymeellis06]

My week old babies from Ideal. The standard i got from a friend.

Standard partridge cochin. Think this one may be a roo.


Bantam mottled



Bantam Partridge



Self blue bantam. Thinking this one is a roo.