Cochin Thread!!!

[rnorris1234]

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Nice birds. I've got the first eggs from my mottled pair in the bator now. I have high hope for them. i especially like your cushy hens.
I love everyone's pics.

 

[theimis67]

Love all the Cochin pictures. A very young pair of mine that have a ton of new feathers coming in under their other feathers. They are very white, just the lighting from the flouresent lights makes them look off white.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Beautiful birds, EVERYONE!!!

I'm thinking 2011 is going to be a great year for Cochins!!

 

[Bo Garrett]

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there is a seller in south east oklahoma
think his last name may be garrett
i found him on an internet search.

cant remember his name exactly

i see you have already been in touch with mr. garrett, awesome!
i found him looking for bantam cochins

I do have large Mottleds (developing 5 different bloodlines) with excellent hatches and fertililty so far this year. I have about 50 large mottled chicks out so far and an incubator filled to capacity. Some of the older chicks are starting to show some type and tail carriage and I believe they will be as good as my blacks and whites. If I can figure out how to post pictures I will try to do so tomorrow, I am about 150 years behind the times technologically speaking. I hope to have a good string of Mottleds and Blacks to take to Indy this fall and a few to sell as well.

Bo

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

*Sits for Bo's awesome bird collage!*

Can't wait to see these!


How're you all doing down there? No fires that way right?

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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i see you have already been in touch with mr. garrett, awesome!
i found him looking for bantam cochins

I do have large Mottleds (developing 5 different bloodlines) with excellent hatches and fertililty so far this year. I have about 50 large mottled chicks out so far and an incubator filled to capacity. Some of the older chicks are starting to show some type and tail carriage and I believe they will be as good as my blacks and whites. If I can figure out how to post pictures I will try to do so tomorrow, I am about 150 years behind the times technologically speaking. I hope to have a good string of Mottleds and Blacks to take to Indy this fall and a few to sell as well.

Bo

Bo, Here's a link with some directions on posting pics - just let us know what we can do to help.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=504

~Gail

 

[Bo Garrett]

Doin' OK, not burning here but the smell of smoke is always in the air. When do you leave for Pennsylvania?? Sure gonna miss you guys. Have you gotten any chicks from the white langshans yet? I'll try to get the pictures tomorrow weather permitting, we've had chances for rain the past month and a half but they all seem to miss us, it is March and I'm waterin' the garden, what the heck is up with that?????? I aways thought March = Mud!!!!

Bo

 

[bburn]

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i see you have already been in touch with mr. garrett, awesome!
i found him looking for bantam cochins

I do have large Mottleds (developing 5 different bloodlines) with excellent hatches and fertililty so far this year. I have about 50 large mottled chicks out so far and an incubator filled to capacity. Some of the older chicks are starting to show some type and tail carriage and I believe they will be as good as my blacks and whites. If I can figure out how to post pictures I will try to do so tomorrow, I am about 150 years behind the times technologically speaking. I hope to have a good string of Mottleds and Blacks to take to Indy this fall and a few to sell as well.

Bo

Where are you located in SE Ok? I am in Arkansas. I love my cochins. All are so gentle. We just lost one of our hens this week to a racoon. I would like to find some eggs...LF. Would you have any that I could buy in about 21 days. I have a incubator going right now. I ended up with a beautiful black LF hen and a barred rooster. I would prefer to find a black rooster and a couple of black hens or even chicks or eggs. Can't seem to find any barred cochins to go with my rooster.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Same here! They are having controlled burns in AR at the moment. We leave mid-May for Pennsylvania. Really not happy about it, but we're hoping after a few years up there we can move to mid-OK or TX. It'll be good to be back home, but I'm optimistic about PA (and the Langshan breeders up there!

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I did get some chicks from the whites, looks like all males, but nothing outstanding. They just look, well, dull compared to the blacks and blues. I bred the blacks to the whites to improve size, type, eye color...pretty much everything. One of the split cockerels is just amazing..

ETA: Heading to bed for the night, I'll catch back up in the morning!

Sorry to interrupt the Cochin chat!

 

[Bo Garrett]

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I do have large Mottleds (developing 5 different bloodlines) with excellent hatches and fertililty so far this year. I have about 50 large mottled chicks out so far and an incubator filled to capacity. Some of the older chicks are starting to show some type and tail carriage and I believe they will be as good as my blacks and whites. If I can figure out how to post pictures I will try to do so tomorrow, I am about 150 years behind the times technologically speaking. I hope to have a good string of Mottleds and Blacks to take to Indy this fall and a few to sell as well.

Bo

Where are you located in SE Ok? I am in Arkansas. I love my cochins. All are so gentle. We just lost one of our hens this week to a racoon. I would like to find some eggs...LF. Would you have any that I could buy in about 21 days. I have a incubator going right now. I ended up with a beautiful black LF hen and a barred rooster. I would prefer to find a black rooster and a couple of black hens or even chicks or eggs. Can't seem to find any barred cochins to go with my rooster.

Breed your barred male to black hens, then next year breed him back to the best daughters and so on. Barring is sex-linked and the male carries both copies so he will pass this on to his pullet offspring if I remember correctly. It will take a few years to clean them up but it can be done. I live in the metropolis of Garvin (pop. 250), actually the I'm in a suburb called Forest Grove (pop. 50). I like living in the fast lane!!! I have some black males 1 and 2 years old I can sell, they are very nice and I just have too many of them. No pullets, they tend to go quickly in the fall. Was just in Arkansas on Wednesday (Little Rock), needed to stretch my legs a little.

Bo