Cochin Thread!!!

[PhoenixFeatherFarms]

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Aww Dak your LF chicks look good

What happened to you over on the new CI forum?

 

[joanie_maine]

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That's the red roo I got from you!! He has his own private pen and two hens to keep him company!

 

[RustyHen]

Can you feather sex bantam cochin chicks?

 

[dak]

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No

 

[thecochincoop]

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yes I do mine and I'm usually pretty accurate

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

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I can't or haven't figured out how to on Blacks and Columbians. So I just let them grow until it becomes obvious.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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Theortically, the feather sexing works best with chicks of birds considered fast-feathering. Cochins are considered slow-feathering.

I gave it a try last year - the single and double lengths on the primaries were VERY CLEARLY evident - just like the videos and illustrations show. However, I ended up raising some very gender-confused roos with very feminine names.

I know some say it works with Cochins, but most say it doesn't work.

All I can recommend is this - go ahead and give it a try, but PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL!! Feather-sexing is best done (so they say), when the chicks are 3 - 4 days old. You can do serious damage handling those tiny bantam wings at that age if you aren't very careful.

 

[1muttsfan]

CC hope your day is going better than yesterday - if not go hug a cochin (or visit the stink eye thread

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[Coopa Cabana]

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Thanx!! Better than yesterday?? Hmmm . . . well at least yesterday I didn't get rear-ended on the way in to work like this morning.

 

[1muttsfan]

Eeek! You OK?