Cochin Thread!!!

[mjgigax]

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I am just a novice but I think it is too early to tell. Mine sure change alot, in color and combs. I may be imagining it but I think combs grow at different rates on individual birds.

 

[olives]

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Thank you for the warm welcome!

The feed store advertised them as Giant Cochins. So I would take that as large fowl I gather?

I feel kind of silly contacting Mr. Roebuck just to ask a question like this, but then again I'm getting nervous as to what I'll do if the cutie pie ends up crowing one morning and I don't have a plan in place for a new home. Hmmm....

Thanks for the feedback!

 

[Ivywoods]

I'm not expert, and I've never had a partridge cochin, but I do have some partridge wyandottes. Judging strickly from the feather coloring my guess is that you have a pullet.

Someone correct me if they think this is not right.

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

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[lilcrow]

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OK, I'm very interested...........how can you tell at this point based on feather color? My bantams look alike at this age. I've got a little roo that looks just like his sisters only he's sprouting a comb. What do I look for?

 

[Msbear]

I thought the partridge boys would begin to develop a black breast and the partridge pattern would only be on the young pullets. I have mille crosses that come from a partridge background and the male juvies do not have a civilized partridge pattern like the pullet's.. but, more an erratic smudgy look with a dark breast.

 

[rnorris1234]

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This is all so helpful! I was wondering about this just this morning. I have my first partridge that hatched from a variety pack of bantam cochin eggs. She? is feathering out with a distinct partridge pattern (only about 2 weeks old) and I was wondering if the feathers would be different. I really can't keep another roo, but a pullet is a different story all together. We'll keep an check on it and see how it develops.

Thanks for all the great tips and ideas.

Robert

 

[cochinman2005]

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At this point, it appears to be a pullet. Regarding the other posts relating to the chick coloring on Partridge Cochins or Partridge in general, I'll try to take a few photos this weekend for comarison purposes, both large and bantam. Some Partridge cockerels tend to feather in like pullets more so than others. To a certain degree all PArtride males' initial feathering looks like the pullets, but they start to show black in the breast, and different wing pattern at a certain point.

 

[olives]

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Yay! Phew! And thank you.

Hopefully her beastly ways will subside as she matures.

 

[olives]

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Hopefully I didn't "yay!" too soon. Comparison pictures would be great.

This is the best forum I've ever been on. Everyone is so friendly and helpful!