Cochin Thread!!!

[wwmicasa1]

Here are a couple pics of my "oops" project hatching. They certainly are not show prospects, but the sweetest girls.

Group shot showing part of the "family". "Will Scarlet" is my little roo & he oversees his ladies so nicely.

 

[Cynthia12]

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Dollies..and handsome.

 

[joanie_maine]

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I looked them up in the directory and they have no internet info, just a mailing address, not even a phone number

I googled him - richard andree poultry - and got his work email through Riverland College and then an email address through an United Orphington Club.

He's reachable, but maybe doesn't necessarily want to be, since I didn't come up with a website for their birds

 

[wildwoodcochins]

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I looked them up in the directory and they have no internet info, just a mailing address, not even a phone number

I googled him - richard andree poultry - and got his work email through Riverland College and then an email address through an United Orphington Club.

He's reachable, but maybe doesn't necessarily want to be, since I didn't come up with a website for their birds

Worth a try though I say! Only one wayt to find out~ Might be someone not comfortable or has time to set up a website etc. I have several friends that should have a site but are a little afraid of the internet and all that comes with it.
I'd like to know a little about his Butterscotch!! LOL I saw them at Crossroads and fell in love with them!

 

[NellaBean]

Went to a local show today. Brought the new pair of blue mottleds I got at Crossroads, just for kicks. They were the only blue mottld there, so cockerel got BOV and pullet got ROV

Pullet

Cockerel

Both together

 

[tracysbantams]

I am so very excited.....I got a mottled bantam cochin (momma) and three babies today. I will try to take a picture of her tomorrow.

 

[tracysbantams]

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Yay NellaBean.......Congrats!!

 

[RustyHen]

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Yay NellaBean.......Congrats!!

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[1muttsfan]

I enjoy following along this thread and seeing all the beautiful pics posted. Yourexpertise has helped me appreciate the appearance of quality cochins. This spring I started a lemon blue bantam project, hatching out about 40 chicks from different breeders. Of these I got down to 6 birds, 3 of them promised to another bycer up here in michigan interested in breeding lemon blues. Then, last week, a friend who keeps her horses here left the coop door unlatched, and a varmint got in and killed my 3 cochins and one other hen

, leaving 13 laying hens that could easily be replaced. A really nice brown red pullet, my favorite blue pullet, and a truly fine lemon blue splash cockerel from eggs from candiss. Fortunately the very kind breeder who took the other 3 birds (in a separate pen so untouched) offered chicks and/or eggs to restock. Human error can be so unkind, thank goodness for the kindness of fellow chicken fanciers.

 

[wildwoodcochins]

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I learned a long time ago that EVERYBODY gets tight lock down EVERY night. I had Coyotes get in my chicken house years ago and killed all 21 of my chickens. They killed so many of them that they left their bodies out in the yard. It was horrible and I was devastated. My human error cost all of them their lives. I have a lot of money vested into my birds, I don't want to lost any of them~ Hard lessons to learn but as long as we learn from them