Cochin Thread!!!

[akcharlie1960]

This is Romeo, a 3 week old gold laced banty roo.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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They will stay white. They will not change to buff. The are Cochin Frizzles.
The dark legs are showing up because something else was bred into them at some point, like a Sizzle or dark feathered bird.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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What personality he is showing!!!

 

[thecochincoop]

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TOO CUTE!!!

 

[andalusn]

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Oh my gosh is that Romeo ever cute! The personality of the picture.

 

[rnorris1234]

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He look like he is part cheetah! Love that look he's giving.

 

[buildingmyark]

Beautiful chicks, everyone!!!

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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Sweet! He looks so inquisitive!! Be sure and keep us posted with pics as he matures!!

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

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Thank You

Would swarthy yellow include some gray/black on the tops of the feet and shanks? But the bottoms of the feet are yellow?

Everthing that Coopa has posted from the Standard is 100% correct. The problem with the text in any book describing a "standard" is that it's somewhat open to interpretation; in some instances at least. Swarthy yellow. Swarthy is defined as "of a dark color, complexion, or cast." My interpretation of swarthy yellow is: yellow with a tendency toward black, but not black. Totally Black legs are something different altogether and something you definitely do not want. In a Black or Blue bird is stands to reason that their leg color wouldn't be a crisp bright yellow just by the nature of their overall pigment. You want some yellow showing in the shanks and definitely the bottoms of the feet. The more yellow the legs, the more the males will tend to have white in their undercolor at the base of the tail and in the lower hackle. Males like this are of some value in breeding pullets with good leg color. Not necessarily everyone's cup of tea to resort to a kind of double mating for Blacks, but something that can be done if you are focusing on getting great leg/foot color in your females. The males tend to have better leg/foot color than females. Along the same lines, the Partridge tend to have horn colored legs/feet (sort of brownish red cast), but again, yellow bottoms for sure.

Large Fowl leg/foot color is the same. All Cochins are yellow skinned birds, and therefore require yellow/swarthy yellow legs/feet. The APA Standard of Perfection is certainly a book to own if you are breeding toward the standard. The 2010 edition just came out and it's $59.00 on the APA site.

This should answer the previous question/post. Sorry was meaning to post on LF cochin thread. But looking at some of the feet I have seen on here lately I decided to leave it up.

 

[Nicole01]

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Beautiful! Also, very lucky to have so many frizzled feathers in one hatch! The average is only 30-40% that actually come out frizzled from a breeding pair!