Cochin Thread!!!

[Coopa Cabana]

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Foot and leg color for all Cochins is yellow to dusky or swarthy yellow. Pure yellow legs on a Black or Blue Cochin is tough to get, and invariably if you do have nice yellow shanks, you'll have issues with white undercolor. Pullets tend to have darker legs than the males, but you at least want to have yellow on the bottom of the feet of Black or Blue birds. The dark shanks would be considered a defect, but from a breeding perspective tough to get away from without losing something somewhere else. With White, Buff, Splash, Barred, etc, they should have yellow legs.

It was just a couple of weeks ago that I finally gave in and looked up "swarthy" in the dictionary!!

 

[bburn]

and swarthy is........?

 

[MrsChickendad]

While on the subject of leg color, I have been noticing a lot of whites with pink feet and shank as well as pink beaks. I have some with more yellow shanks and feet, but also some with pinkish. How do you get the leg color back without introducing other problems into the whites?

 

[juliechick]

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Are you asking if the breed is Mille Fleur or the color? Because the first one is not a Mille Fleur d'Uccle. It looks like a Cochin, probably red. Sometimes the chicks have spotted wings, but they will grow out red.

 

[chasehope]

I am looking to purchase a pair or trio of bantam millie fleur cochins. I would like to have some with good type/color. If you have any, or may have any in the future can you PM me? I am not picky about age etc, quality is more important. Thanks!

 

[usschicago1]

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Theres some in the BST section in adult bird section!

Check soon im not sure when it ends !

 

[chasehope]

The only ones I saw are pick up only. Its a bit of a drive from Washington state to West Virginia!

And I guess there are the ones in Texas, but I am hoping to find some that already have the correct color if possible!

 

[DANNY]

I am looking for some good quality gold laced bantam cochins that could be brought to the Ohio Nationals Nov. 12. Can anyone help?

 

[wildwoodcochins]

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Are you asking if the breed is Mille Fleur or the color? Because the first one is not a Mille Fleur d'Uccle. It looks like a Cochin, probably red. Sometimes the chicks have spotted wings, but they will grow out red.

I was making a guess at Mille Fleur d'Uccle. It wouldn't be a cochin MF, hatcheries don't sell them (yet!) So you think red? Anybody else have any guesses?

 

[usschicago1]

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I just double checked and it says she will ship but shes never done it before

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