Cochin Thread!!!

[chickensRcute]

I just love my cochins! I just bought three frizzle cochin bantams while I was at the fair with my Daughter and her Reserve Grand Champion barred cochin bantam! I got two red and one black which they told me was a girl, but after I got them home it started crowing at me!

The red ones are girls though!

I am trying to name them and I am stumped for names!

I am putting pictures of them on here and would love to get some names back from you all!

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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I'm so bad with names, but Congrats to your daughter on her win!!

 

[Ivywoods]

Congrats to your daughter! Nice accomplishment.

How about "Sizzle" for that "Red Hot Frizzle?"

 

[buildingmyark]

She reminds me of "Reba".

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Ricky, Lucy and Ethel.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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Ricky, Lucy and Ethel.

PERFECT!!

 

[luckypickens]

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With the heat out there all over the country I would not expect a good hatch from any shipped eggs at this time. It gets hot enough in trucks to damage eggs. I would think your best bet to get a good hatch is to find some within driving distance until it cools down some. Good Luck!

I shipped some out 3 weeks ago and it has been hot here in AR go an email from the woman I sent them and she got 20 out of 24 eggs to hatch. I bought eggs from brahma bantam eggs from Aarron Hunsinger and had 8 out of 12 hatch this week also. As soon as I got them I put them right in the incubator and let them set in the turner for 12 hours before turning it on and think that helped. I pack with a lot of paper and think that helps insulate them also. Expecting another batch from Aarron so we'll see how it goes this go around. I have been keeping vitamins and electrolytes in their water and think that helps my birds and keep the eggs strong thru shipping. Also I make sure I ship eggs no older than 4 days old, the fresher even the better helps keep the air cell in place.

 

[buildingmyark]

luckypickens, are you shipping out any hatching eggs? I'm in MS so it probably wouldn't take very long for them to get here.

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

Well my hopes of a breeding project just went *flush* down the toilet. Petra, my blue cochin hen, is VERY aggressive with Duchess, my cream colored hen, so I can't put them in the breeding pen together. Charlie, the buff roo, is a little larger than Duchess, and he has evidently injured her while mating as well...she can't walk "right" at the moment. She is still laying though, so I can maybe get a couple of little ones from her...but now she is segregated by herself...and Petra started picking on EVERYONE else so she had to go to another segregation area too...sheesh. I guess whatever eggs the girls lay in the next few days plus what was layed before all HELLO broke loose will be the only option I have unless I want to start from scratch with all new adults...

 

[buildingmyark]

Chickens are often like soap opera stars... Oh, the DRAMA....