Cochin Thread!!!

[SierraView]

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I have 3 lemon blue cockerels. These guys are 4 months in the picture. I'm on cockerel overload.

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r9/jenjeran/2011-08-20_10-01-09_697.jpg

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r9/jenjeran/2011-08-20_10-00-37_520.jpg

Do you want to sell any?? I'm VERY interested!!

After January I will most likely sell one. I want to take all 3 to a show and find out what one does best.

 

[wildwoodcochins]

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Do you want to sell any?? I'm VERY interested!!

After January I will most likely sell one. I want to take all 3 to a show and find out what one does best.

Keep in touch and good luck with the show! They are beautiful. I have some brown/reds that are just chicks right now so I'll be starting my lemon blue project next spring. I love this color~

 

[wildwoodcochins]

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Wow

 

[nicalandia]

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Yipes!! He's breathtaking. That's the Langshan color isn't it?

No.. Silver Spangled is one of those Nice to the eye pattern but very difficult to get right,

this is a Silver Spangled Hamburg...

 

[chickendales]

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You can show them but they really are not good examples of mottled. Way too much white. Feathers are supposed to be white tipped Read the SOP. Those birds are nowhere close to the standard.

Thanks, I won't show them then. I bought them to keep good color in my Splashes, not to show. Just wondered if they were close to the standard.

i would try showing them most mottles in USA look like this last time i look blue mottle where aov

 

[chickendales]

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Thanks, I won't show them then. I bought them to keep good color in my Splashes, not to show. Just wondered if they were close to the standard.

I can almost guarantee that they will turn out to be show quality. It just takes time on the mottleds to get their color in and they will also get more white each time they molt. A young bird that shows well will most likely get too much mottling and a lightly mottled youngster may grow out to be a beautiful adult.
these two pics are the exact same bird as a pullet and then as a hen (she's sunburnt in the bottom pic)
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...03736274_100000560950503_257820_4181687_n.jpg
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...22921248_100000560950503_746370_7875699_n.jpg

here's what she looked like as a baby
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/17469_8-5-10_003.jpg

check thse babies out

 

[meepitqueenie]

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You can show them but they really are not good examples of mottled. Way too much white. Feathers are supposed to be white tipped Read the SOP. Those birds are nowhere close to the standard.

Thanks, I won't show them then. I bought them to keep good color in my Splashes, not to show. Just wondered if they were close to the standard.

they may change there mottling with there moulting through adult hood. but they should have white spots on the tips of the feathers

 

[chickendales]

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Thanks, I won't show them then. I bought them to keep good color in my Splashes, not to show. Just wondered if they were close to the standard.

they may change there mottling with there moulting through adult hood. but they should have white spots on the tips of the feathers

and they well with age

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

I agree that they may change as they age but I can only go by what I see now. When the show
comes along get out the SOP and check them against the standard. Then you will know if you should enter them.

 

[thecochincoop]

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Thanks, I won't show them then. I bought them to keep good color in my Splashes, not to show. Just wondered if they were close to the standard.

they may change there mottling with there moulting through adult hood. but they should have white spots on the tips of the feathers

they will when they get their adult feathers in. the perfect SOP feather pattern is a diamond shaped white tip on the end of the feathers but it's not supposed to be on every one. for the female the head should be 1 in 3 tipped, neck, breast and back 1 in 2 tipped, and the wings and tail all tipped. The male should have about the same as the female but 1 in 5 on the back tipped.