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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.
Thank you so much for your input. Here are some photos of the only one out of 10 chicks that has feathers, color (at this point), that would lead me to think I could at least enter a bird in a small show. Please feel free to comment!
In this picture, the white rooster is "daddy" & the blue hen behind him is the "mother".
These are pictures of their baby that I'm in hopes to show. She has yellow pads with dark color going up the shank (everything can change as she grows) I am not sure about the hocks. They are not stiff and they lay over, I'm accustomed to Bantam Cochins.
The next interesting thing is the colors that cropped up. From charcol to redish browns like what is shown in this pic. Other then this one gal, I do not see any other middle toe feathers. Someone jumped the fence at some point!
Congrats rnorris1234! I make more coffee on hatching days! Everyone comes and watches, its fun!
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.
Thank you so much for your input. Here are some photos of the only one out of 10 chicks that has feathers, color (at this point), that would lead me to think I could at least enter a bird in a small show. Please feel free to comment!
In this picture, the white rooster is "daddy" & the blue hen behind him is the "mother".
These are pictures of their baby that I'm in hopes to show. She has yellow pads with dark color going up the shank (everything can change as she grows) I am not sure about the hocks. They are not stiff and they lay over, I'm accustomed to Bantam Cochins.
The next interesting thing is the colors that cropped up. From charcol to redish browns like what is shown in this pic. Other then this one gal, I do not see any other middle toe feathers. Someone jumped the fence at some point!
Congrats rnorris1234! I make more coffee on hatching days! Everyone comes and watches, its fun!
