Cochin Thread!!!

[serendipityfarm]

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Your best bet to improve Silver Penciled would be to cross with Partridge. If you cross a SP male over Partridge females all of the females would be SP in color and the males would look like a golden duckwing.......Keep the SP females with the better type and cross them back to the original SP male and you should have improved type and pencilling from the better Partridge.
I have used this cross many times with SP/Partridge Wyandottes.
Hope this info helps. Crossing with Black would work but you would lose alot of the pencilling and would probably take about 6 or 7 generations to get it back.

Good info. Thank You! I don't have SPs (yet) ha!, I was ONLY going to have Mille Fleurs...........

OK, so I am having difficulty finding the SP's through a breeder, and a friend is getting an IDEAL order next month, so I had him throw in 1/2 dozen of their SP bantams for me. Just going to see what they grow up like, and then I think I saw some nice Partridge bantams here at the local fair last year. (Darned if I can find a way to find out who they are NOW, though!) I'm thinking that by fair season I should have a fair idea as to what I have to work with in SP, and go from there.
So much for a "straightforward" second project.

 

[Ms. Lewis Rich]

I am reducing my Cochin flock . I have worked with a pure strain of the Rue line since 08.When Carl and Norman retired the I asked them to send me a few birds the best they had. Have been breeding on a small scale and showing . Have had some nice wins!
I have two Pullets listed on featherauction.com Pettibones poultry if interested take a look! I have a few more, not listed yet.
Listed under Bantam started

 

[cochinman2005]

Some of the first hatch of the season. 4 Large Fowl Whites.

 

[dmiravalle]

I can't wait for ours, we have started collecting eggs, but our girls are soooo old, it is a slow process!

We will see if a 7 yr old rooster can still do his job!!

 

[Sweetfolly]

Ms. Lewis Rich :

I am reducing my Cochin flock . I have worked with a pure strain of the Rue line since 08.When Carl and Norman retired the I asked them to send me a few birds the best they had. Have been breeding on a small scale and showing . Have had some nice wins!
I have two Pullets listed on featherauction.com Pettibones poultry if interested take a look! I have a few more, not listed yet.
Listed under Bantam started

They're very pretty! I love that Blue pullet!

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

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I see you are off to a good start this spring! Now begins the long wait for them to mature. Good Luck

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

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They're very pretty! I love that Blue pullet!

It's good to see you back on BYC Kayla. I know you turned on the lights a while back. are you getting eggs out of your Columbians yet? They are beautiful!

 

[Sweetfolly]

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They're very pretty! I love that Blue pullet!

It's good to see you back on BYC Kayla. I know you turned on the lights a while back. are you getting eggs out of your Columbians yet? They are beautiful!

None yet. It turns out, the 12-year-old was turning the lights (set to a timer to give an extra few hours of light every morning) off when she got up for school and fed her rabbits every morning.

She's a great help and lets the birds out every morning, keeps all the water clean and refilled, and generally keeps and eye on the birds for me (okay, okay - I'm bribing her with $10 a week and the promise of a Sebastopol gosing to raise for 4-H

) - she thought she was helping by turning out the light.

Another week or so is when all the birds generally start laying eggs without any supplemental light in the spring anyways. And we're having such a heat wave this week! I'm seeing grass for the first time in months too! I've been checking ALL the pens for eggs first thing every day, but nothing yet!

It's just as well - my incubators are filled with Coturnix Quail eggs at the moment!

 

[growinupinfl]

Oh, Columbines.. I want some of those.. they are so pretty... You are a very lucky breeder.. Oh well I think I need to stream line my own flock soon.. But I could stream line it with columbines..LOL

Christal

 

[chickenlady81]

Here are my two mfc chicks going on 4 weeks old.