Cochin Thread!!!

[Daisies]

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This is my giant cochin rooster Ross. He's super sweet and a total gentleman with the ladies. He's still trying to get to the top of the pecking order because he is younger than half our chickens and used to be smaller than all of them. We really like him at my place though so I thought I'd show him off a bit.

 

[Daisies]

This is probably my favorite picture of him.

 

[CrazyChickLady7]

Ross? Omg I love it! That is an amazing name for a rooster.

 

[Daisies]

Ross? Omg I love it! That is an amazing name for a rooster.

Thanks! My step dad picked him out back when he was a she and we named her Rosie as in Sam's wife in Lord of the Rings because the Hobbits have furry feet. And then Rosie became Ross.

 

[CrazyChickLady7]

I love Lord of the Rings, but I live the Hobbit even more. I should consider some dwarf names for the ones is the incubator

 

[Daisies]

I love Lord of the Rings, but I live the Hobbit even more. I should consider some dwarf names for the ones is the incubator

Totally! My sister used to have a dwarf rabbit named Gimli. What kind of chickens are you incubating?

 

[Shadow920]

my cochin Shadow lost his dominance to my new hampshire red last spring. Rudy nearly killed him because Shadow's not really a fighter. he's healthy now. although my flock is so big that i had to limit the amount of hens that i keep with Shadow because he is so slow and clumsy that he almost starved to death, litterally because everyone had most of the food gone. he'd be dead by now if it wasn't that the first thing i do if a chicken is sick is to see if they'll eat. my birds are so greedy that if they aren't eating then i'm about to lose one. so when i saw that Shadow was eating i blocked him off from everyone and gave him is own bowl. he recovered and is copletely back to normal. although he ate so fast the first time that i thought he'd die from that. Shadow is my first and my precious baby. i will be devastated when he does die. but he's survived alot. my sweetest rooster i also my toughest. fingers crossed for his chicks next year.

 

[Daisies]

my cochin Shadow lost his dominance to my new hampshire red last spring.  Rudy nearly killed him because Shadow's not really a fighter.  he's healthy now.  although my flock is so big that i had to limit the amount of hens that i keep with Shadow because he is so slow and clumsy that he almost starved to death, litterally because everyone had most of the food gone.  he'd be dead by now if it wasn't that the first thing i do if a chicken is sick is to see if they'll eat.  my birds are so greedy that if they aren't eating then i'm about to lose one. so when i saw that Shadow was eating i blocked him off from everyone  and gave him is own bowl.   he recovered and is copletely back to normal.  although he ate so fast the first time that i thought he'd die from that.  Shadow is my first and my precious baby.  i will be devastated when he does die.  but he's survived alot.  my sweetest rooster i also my toughest.  fingers crossed for his chicks next year.

I'm glad he's better. That's too bad he lost his spot though.

 

[Shadow920]

hopefull he'll get it back. they're separated now.

 

[crystalgoltz]

My first large fowl Cochins! I did not know they were so big! The roo is about 15 pounds.