Cochin Thread!!!

[flood1964]

I just ordered 25 bantam cochin chicks from Cackle Hatcheries, has anyone ordered from them before? I currently have 8 standard birds in my coop now, my question is, how many of the 25 bantams that I ordered will I be able to keep?

Is this a freindly more docile bird than other breeds? The colors that I ordered are, splash, partridge, black, blue, and gold laced. Does anyone have an idea of the ratio of roosters to hens I may come up with? The only way to order them was to buy straight run, I heard the ratio is 50/50. Thanks in advance.
J.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

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I've never ordered from Cackle so I can't help you there but when I've ordered from Ideal and gotten straight run chickens my ratio has pretty much been 50/50. Alot better than my hatching ratio has been.

Laurie

 

[dak]

Well, I trimmed the fluffy britches off my GLCs yesterday for breeding, and it hurt something deep inside me.

 

[smoothmule]

Do any of the hatcheries have the standard cochins that actually mature 11 pounds for a rooster? Are there any that have quality Cochins?

 

[Chickielady]

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No pictures???

Oh my, that I want to see !

 

[poultrycrazy]

Ok, lets try this again... I have just been given the oppertunity to aquire more bantam cochins. I started with chickens about a year and a half ago and boy do they grow on you! i have a bantam black cochin but i dont think she is laying anymore. I also have 3 bantam splash cochin chicks, pretty sure a pullet a roo and an iffy. The breeder that is offering me these chicks is selling right now blue, black, black frizzle, red frizzle/sizzle, partridge, black mottled, splash, and maybe one blue frizzle/sizzle roo, she has male and females of each color. I dont want seperate pens with different colors so witch color/s would be best with my splash cochins? and Male or Female? i also have a bantam black frizzle cochin hen.

Thanks, poultrycrazy

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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Clare, it only hurts until you have a new batch of fluffy butt chicklets running around (if not sooner)!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I posted a response to this the last time you asked, it's either on the previous page or the one before that.
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--You can put blue, black, splash, black/blue/splash frizzled, and black/blue/splash mottled all in the same pen.

--If you have a frizzled rooster at least half of your chicks would hatch out frizzled, if the frizzled is a hen only half of her chicks would be frizzled. You don't want to cross 2 frizzles, this results in weak feathers and can leave the birds bald.

--Mottled is recessive, so most likely you won't have any mottled chicks unless you have at least a pair of mottleds or if some of the others are split to mottled.

--Blue, black, and splash are compatible because this is andalusian blue. Andalusian blue, in its pure form, is splash--that one has 2 blue genes. One dose of blue gives you a blue bird, and a 'sport' from this would be the blacks.

--I would stay away from the frizzle/sizzles unless you put it that way just because you didn't know the correct term. A frizzle is a frizzled cochin, a sizzle is a silkie and frizzled cochin cross

 

[dak]

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Clare, it only hurts until you have a new batch of fluffy butt chicklets running around (if not sooner)!!

I have a 6 day old GLC and another one hatched this morning. Hopefully, that will shut the little singleton up. It is NOT happy about being alone.

One of my new LF black pullets from Tom was making herself a nest yesterday! The blacks are just amazingly beautiful! It will be great if we can get the GLCs that round and fluffy.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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I posted a response to this the last time you asked, it's either on the previous page or the one before that.
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--You can put blue, black, splash, black/blue/splash frizzled, and black/blue/splash mottled all in the same pen.

--If you have a frizzled rooster at least half of your chicks would hatch out frizzled, if the frizzled is a hen only half of her chicks would be frizzled. You don't want to cross 2 frizzles, this results in weak feathers and can leave the birds bald.

--Mottled is recessive, so most likely you won't have any mottled chicks unless you have at least a pair of mottleds or if some of the others are split to mottled.

--Blue, black, and splash are compatible because this is andalusian blue. Andalusian blue, in its pure form, is splash--that one has 2 blue genes. One dose of blue gives you a blue bird, and a 'sport' from this would be the blacks.

--I would stay away from the frizzle/sizzles unless you put it that way just because you didn't know the correct term. A frizzle is a frizzled cochin, a sizzle is a silkie and frizzled cochin cross


I agree with Shelley. And as you already have a frizzle hen, I would stay away from getting any more - definitely not the roo, as you don't want to pen them together and take the chance of hatching out curlies (frizzle x frizzle).

As you have only had chickens for a little over a year - are you sure you're hen has quit laying? How old is she? Or has she just slowed down due to fall molt or shorter days?

My preference would be to stick with the Blues, Blacks and Splash. Next would be the Mottled. I would stay away from the red or partridge - only because you are penning together, and the red and partridge don't have the same gene pool.