Cochin Thread!!!

[Paganrose]

I am sorry if this has been asked already but 500 some pages is too much for me to sort through. I am new to cochins. I have four week old standard blues (Hatchery stock, I think they will be black instead of blue though). I have 3 chicks which appear to have the cochin type, and from what I can tell by combs and wattles are roos. 2 chicks do not have the same body type, but I believe are female. Is it normal for pullets to be not as "fluffy"???? They seem not as boxy and have longer tails.....

My suspected pullets:

My suspected roos:

A pic with both a roo and pullet:

 

[Msbear]

They are probably cochin crosses of some sort. The feathers on the feet should be more dense. The tooshie should be round and their feathering is too stiff. Cochins are fluffy like BlackCochinBantam's pullet.

Craig, It's nice to see you chatting about silver columbian down color. I remember how true that was about the darker chicks... and Murphy's Law of Chicken Breeding. ..just how it goes.

happy to say I'm back in it with the columbians... been sore about that ever since I parted with them last year. Now that I have a bit more room (and a decent incubator) I should be able to make some progress. They are laying now. I already have a couple a hundred chicks on the ground from my other birds and was thinking of cutting the cord soon... oh well.. what's a few more

 

[the*chicken*chik]

lol. i am having trouble telling my newly hatched babies apart. lol. hatched out silkies, chochins, serama, and duccles. how can you tell the difference? i know silkies have five toes and black skin, okay not the cochins. and seramas do not have feathered feet. so how to tell the duccles from the cochin chicks?

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

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Last year I had 4 chicks like the silver pullet. I culled hard and only have one like that this year. Still plenty (lots) of smutty ones to sort through soon. Those 4 chicks in the picture hatched out under a hen on Sunday.
Did you get some new breeding stock recently? Will you hatch some columbians this year?

 

[Msbear]

Craig, I'll pm you. Think we'll be swapping at some point

 

[lilcrow]

the*chicken*chik :

lol. i am having trouble telling my newly hatched babies apart. lol. hatched out silkies, chochins, serama, and duccles. how can you tell the difference? i know silkies have five toes and black skin, okay not the cochins. and seramas do not have feathered feet. so how to tell the duccles from the cochin chicks?

I raise both d'Uccle and Cochins, and what I look for in identifying who's who is: d'Uccle SHOULD have beards and muffs even at one day old, they stand more upright, even at one day old. Cochins SHOULD have heavier feathering on their feet and legs, and the feathering on their hocks is not as stiff as the d'Uccle. d's will develop their vulture hocks pretty early, Cochins do NOT have vulture hocks. I've got some porcelains that don't have the best muffs and beards, so the identifier with them is stance, very upright.​

 

[ChickLover98]

I got some LF Frizzled and Smooth cochins from Fay at Frizzled Feathers last month. There are 16 of them. They have the sweetest disposition and are very docile. I'll get a link to the thread with pictures, but here are a few of them. Can you guys help me with gender and color please? I can only keep 6, five girls and a boy, and I need to be sure. The rest are going to some friends. Oh and I do plan on showing them.


Cloudy, I think she's a girl, what color could she be?

Rosie, girl? Black maybe?

Onyx, my boy, color?

Lilac, girl? No idea on color.

Shadow, girl? Black maybe?

Unnamed, girl? No idea on color.

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

I need to get my camera out and take some pictures of my BBS grow-outs.

Makes mental note to add it to my list of things I should do.

 

[olives]

Hi Everyone. Finally registered after using this site as a resource for weeks. I'm posting on this thread because I have a partridge cochin who's about 4 weeks old. I was hoping some of you cochin lovers might be able to clue me in on wether my cochin is just a brutish girl or I may have actually ended up with a boy. So far from everything I've referenced, it seems the comb would be a little more pink and prominent right now if it was a boy. It's still pretty yellow with just a hint of blush at the base that I noticed today. But I'm still not so sure because she/ he/ it is such a little beast. And look at that foot feathering! Bless her/ his/ it's heart.

 

[lilcrow]

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Is this a LF chick? If so Tom Roebuck would be the one that could definitively identify the sex at this point. I can't tell as it is still too young for me to know for sure. You can't tell by attitude as I've seen some very assertive pullets before, even down right nasty. If they stay that way, I don't keep them around as disposition is inherited.

Nancy
By the way

So nice to have a new person on board, glad to have you.