Cochin Thread!!!

[NewMommy123]

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If you are planning to exhibit you need to refer to her as a Large Fowl, not a "Giant". There are no "Giant" Cochins.
Clare

Thanks for the advice!

 

[NellaBean]

Dropped off my birds at the TN Valley Fair today. Judging in the morning.

Love this pullet. She is young and hasn't had her first molt yet. Not much mottling but she should be a stunner next year.

Another great one, but she's broody now (whoops). Hoping she breaks from show stress ha.

Decent...this hen won BOV at Jefferson county fair (I disagreed)

New hen, on the large side but looked great in the show pen and was not stressed at all.

My favorite blue, still recovering from a butt trim earlier this year (had a poopy wound that got maggots)

5 month old cockerel. not a huge fan of him, but going to see what they think. he is absolutely COVERED in pinfeathers.

Heavily heavily overbred hen, missing head feathers and most of cushion worn off. She is there only to sell afterwards. I think her type would be decent once she recovers though.

blue mottled hen to be sold

another blue mottled hen to be sold

horribly type (nice head though), GREAT GREAT broody, she is there to be sold

 

[Countrypunk92]

Hey peeps, just bought a pair of black cochin bantams yesterday. They are GORGOUS. I dont want to get rid of the roo, how can i get both of my roos to get along and share the hens. Lol

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Whew, Nella Bean, can't wait to hear how they do at the fair! Gorgeous birds!

Especially that first hen.

 

[mjgigax]

Cowboy, my black roo, scared me good today.

-I have him to breed with my Lavender/Self-blue hens. He is from Bo Garret's lines and I should try showing him. I had 3 hens to breed to my Lav./S-B roosters but lost them in the heat

I got 1 chick from one of them and a Lav./SB before they died.

Back to the story -
I found him in the pen, laying belly up in their favorite dust bath spot. He was not moving and eyes not blinking. My heart sank! Then I saw him blink. I thought "He is still alive!, maybe I can save him." I picked him up and he was and is fine. Maybe it was a ploy to get extra mealworms? Well it worked.
Our cats sometimes nap laying belly up and completely relaxed. We call it the "Fur Monty" Was Cowboy doing a "Feather Monty" or is it something to worry about?

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I found my Mottled roo, Rascal like that one time. He could not get up! He was flat on his back under his foot high roosting pole and as I fed and watered his tractor pen I watched him as he has been rotten in coming at me. Come to find out he just could not roll over and get up at all!

I used that to teach him not to come at me. For 1 1/2 years I have had to watch him especially in the spring. This year when he came at me I snatched his fluffy butt up and laid him on his back. I left him laying there kicking in the wind (reminded me of a kid doing "Wheels on the bus") while I fed and watered the pen and collected eggs. I rolled him back over before I left out. About a week later he tried it again so I again rolled him onto his back but this time I got over the top of him and yelled in his face. That did the trick. It has been several months and he still gives me a wide berth!

 

[Mr. Ree]

I took these pics a few weeks ago but never got around to putting them on the computer. I finally did, but the quality isnt the greatest, they were taken on my cell. But you can see the gist of what I am trying to show you. This is one of my White frizzle Pullets and the White smooth Male I am breeding her to. I really hope the chicks have his foot feathering.

~Casey

Edited to add this photo of my nephew, Wyatt, with two of the first chicks I hatched this year. These are the two White frizzles that hatched, the other is a smooth Pullet. Of the three two are pullets and two are frizzles so even thoug only three hatched my odds ended up pretty good. The secnd hatch I had 6 hatch, and of those 5 are roosters, 4 White smooth and one Red frizzle/White smooth, and one White smooth pullet. I have two more that are around 2 weeks old now, and I have a frizzle and smooth.

 

[silky_3699]

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Are they availible in Australia?

 

[mjgigax]

Mr. Ree :

I took these pics a few weeks ago but never got around to putting them on the computer. I finally did, but the quality isnt the greatest, they were taken on my cell. But you can see the gist of what I am trying to show you. This is one of my White frizzle Pullets and the White smooth Male I am breeding her to. I really hope the chicks have his foot feathering.

http://i56.tinypic.com/jkxaax.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/2w1ryiq.jpg


~Casey

Edited to add this photo of my nephew, Wyatt, with two of the first chicks I hatched this year. These are the two White frizzles that hatched, the other is a smooth Pullet. Of the three two are pullets and two are frizzles so even thoug only three hatched my odds ended up pretty good. The secnd hatch I had 6 hatch, and of those 5 are roosters, 4 White smooth and one Red frizzle/White smooth, and one White smooth pullet. I have two more that are around 2 weeks old now, and I have a frizzle and smooth.

http://i52.tinypic.com/y15p0.jpg

So beautiful and cute!​

 

[Mrs.Carron]

Mr. Ree,

Your Cochins are beautiful! Absolutely stunning. Thanks for sharing these pics with us.