Cochin Thread!!!

[just2rosey]

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Wow! Rose is a very pretty girl, and she knows it!!

 

[thecochincoop]

sagersilkies :

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I just found out tonight! went and bought 33 packs lol. they're all gone here in my town except for the expensive ones

Is it the infa red 100 watt bulbs goin to plus dose this occur for canada​

just the plain incandescent white light bulbs. don't know about canada. i heard it on the news tonight so i bought 33 boxes of bulbs lol

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I thought this photo turned out nice yesterday. I just happened to snap it while getting some of other birds. I have always loved my whites! She is an older lady but bounces back pretty good after a molt.

And my beloved Prince, old man that he is. He is a second generation from my first breeding stock I got out of FL. Still doing his deed. I have a few youngsters I need to snap photos of out of him. They are lovely!

And a few of my buff Mottled project girls. Still fighting that black that turns up in the hackle feathers but this year we are taking a new route in hopes of demolishing that. Time will tell.

Happy New Year, everyone. Open a bottle of water and kiss a Cochin!

 

[mjgigax]

my only LF, Peaches. She is Flock Manager. A couple of my 2nd generation Mille Fleurs think she is their mother. She is in love with my Bantam Black Rooster, Cowboy, stays near his pen alot.

Cowboy-

 

[lilcrow]

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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your Buff Mottleds. I'm assuming the black in the hackles is coming from the Columbian, which you had to have to get your lovely mottling. They are just beautiful. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them. How do the roosters look? I'm guessing they show much more black...........STILL........VERY beautiful!

You know, there are a couple of people on here that have developed Silver Lace and also Gold Lace Brahmas. The fellow that developed the Silver Laced is currently (and has been for years) working on Blue Laced Red Brahmas. his user name is Big Medicine and he's a good friend of mine. I'm sure if you wanted to pick his brain about how to continue with your variety, he'd be more than happy to help out. He is such a nice person and that is how we became friends, he has taken pity on me many times in the past when I was up against some simple issue that I had no idea of how to proceed. He's even been kind enough to do some of my dirty work for me, like putting down a sick or injured bird when it needed to happen. I can't do it..............it makes me feel like a puss, but I've never been able to bring myself to deliberately kill something, even when it NEEDED to be done. What a chicken I am. ANYWAY, he is very kind and funny, I think you'd enjoy talking with him. I know the genetics for lacing is different from mottling, but there are some similarities and of course genetics are genetics. Sometimes it's a simple matter of the gentle tweaking of a certain allele, or whatever. I've got an entire generation of Partridge that have gone awry, I'm loosing the penciling on the feather pattern.

There are entire areas of the birds (seen best on the pullets) that have become barred, rather than penciled.

I thought initially that I needed to look at pattern genetics, but I found some info that leads me to believe it may be more connected to color. My birds are too light (golden) and they need to be darker, more red or dark brown. This is why I went nuts over Craig's Partridge hen. His birds have the most exquisite feather pattern, crisp and clean, they look perfect to me. Maybe this is a discussion that should be moved over to the genetics thread, if anyone would be interested in talking further about it. I've been wanting to bring up this issue with my birds anyway, so maybe I'll post over there and see if I can get any input.
PLEASE understand I am not trying to say anything negative, obviously you know what you're doing or you wouldn't have come so far with these guys; it's just that I always benefit from talking with folks about any given thing, so naturally I think everyone benefits from the same thing.
I guess I'm feeling a little gun shy since Casey left,

I don't want to offend, but also don't want to hold back info that might be helpful to someone.
Nancy

 

[just2rosey]

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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your Buff Mottleds. I'm assuming the black in the hackles is coming from the Columbian, which you had to have to get your lovely mottling. They are just beautiful. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them. How do the roosters look? I'm guessing they show much more black...........STILL........VERY beautiful!

You know, there are a couple of people on here that have developed Silver Lace and also Gold Lace Brahmas. The fellow that developed the Silver Laced is currently (and has been for years) working on Blue Laced Red Brahmas. his user name is Big Medicine and he's a good friend of mine. I'm sure if you wanted to pick his brain about how to continue with your variety, he'd be more than happy to help out. He is such a nice person and that is how we became friends, he has taken pity on me many times in the past when I was up against some simple issue that I had no idea of how to proceed. He's even been kind enough to do some of my dirty work for me, like putting down a sick or injured bird when it needed to happen. I can't do it..............it makes me feel like a puss, but I've never been able to bring myself to deliberately kill something, even when it NEEDED to be done. What a chicken I am. ANYWAY, he is very kind and funny, I think you'd enjoy talking with him. I know the genetics for lacing is different from mottling, but there are some similarities and of course genetics are genetics. Sometimes it's a simple matter of the gentle tweaking of a certain allele, or whatever. I've got an entire generation of Partridge that have gone awry, I'm loosing the penciling on the feather pattern.

There are entire areas of the birds (seen best on the pullets) that have become barred, rather than penciled.

I thought initially that I needed to look at pattern genetics, but I found some info that leads me to believe it may be more connected to color. My birds are too light (golden) and they need to be darker, more red or dark brown. This is why I went nuts over Craig's Partridge hen. His birds have the most exquisite feather pattern, crisp and clean, they look perfect to me. Maybe this is a discussion that should be moved over to the genetics thread, if anyone would be interested in talking further about it. I've been wanting to bring up this issue with my birds anyway, so maybe I'll post over there and see if I can get any input.
PLEASE understand I am not trying to say anything negative, obviously you know what you're doing or you wouldn't have come so far with these guys; it's just that I always benefit from talking with folks about any given thing, so naturally I think everyone benefits from the same thing.
I guess I'm feeling a little gun shy since Casey left,

I don't want to offend, but also don't want to hold back info that might be helpful to someone.
Nancy

My daughter is breeding partridge cochins for her 4H project, so I am interested in your mention of partridge genetics. Is there a seperate thread for genetics? I thought this was the thread for discussing genetics related to cochins. We hatched our first chick just this week and have a small second batch of eggs which we set this week. I would love to learn more about Partridge genetics. I did buy a book on poultry genetics, but it doesn't go into the genes themselves. I does describe how feather patterns in the male contribute to feather patterns in the female and how to select to improve penciling. Any partridge related info would be appreciated! Thanks.

 

[mjgigax]

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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your Buff Mottleds. I'm assuming the black in the hackles is coming from the Columbian, which you had to have to get your lovely mottling. They are just beautiful. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them. How do the roosters look? I'm guessing they show much more black...........STILL........VERY beautiful!

You know, there are a couple of people on here that have developed Silver Lace and also Gold Lace Brahmas. The fellow that developed the Silver Laced is currently (and has been for years) working on Blue Laced Red Brahmas. his user name is Big Medicine and he's a good friend of mine. I'm sure if you wanted to pick his brain about how to continue with your variety, he'd be more than happy to help out. He is such a nice person and that is how we became friends, he has taken pity on me many times in the past when I was up against some simple issue that I had no idea of how to proceed. He's even been kind enough to do some of my dirty work for me, like putting down a sick or injured bird when it needed to happen. I can't do it..............it makes me feel like a puss, but I've never been able to bring myself to deliberately kill something, even when it NEEDED to be done. What a chicken I am. ANYWAY, he is very kind and funny, I think you'd enjoy talking with him. I know the genetics for lacing is different from mottling, but there are some similarities and of course genetics are genetics. Sometimes it's a simple matter of the gentle tweaking of a certain allele, or whatever. I've got an entire generation of Partridge that have gone awry, I'm loosing the penciling on the feather pattern.

There are entire areas of the birds (seen best on the pullets) that have become barred, rather than penciled.

I thought initially that I needed to look at pattern genetics, but I found some info that leads me to believe it may be more connected to color. My birds are too light (golden) and they need to be darker, more red or dark brown. This is why I went nuts over Craig's Partridge hen. His birds have the most exquisite feather pattern, crisp and clean, they look perfect to me. Maybe this is a discussion that should be moved over to the genetics thread, if anyone would be interested in talking further about it. I've been wanting to bring up this issue with my birds anyway, so maybe I'll post over there and see if I can get any input.
PLEASE understand I am not trying to say anything negative, obviously you know what you're doing or you wouldn't have come so far with these guys; it's just that I always benefit from talking with folks about any given thing, so naturally I think everyone benefits from the same thing.
I guess I'm feeling a little gun shy since Casey left,

I don't want to offend, but also don't want to hold back info that might be helpful to someone.
Nancy

I'm gun shy too, plus I know way less than you do. Did I say something stupid? I am very enthuiastic because I just love Cochins.

 

[wildwoodcochins]

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Oh, how I love the Calicos! How totally gorgeous and look so very nice and typy!

Thanks Amy~ These came from Erin Moshier. (Msbear) I bought a trio from Erin a few months back and she sent some extra eggs in the box, I was so happy to have these 2 little girls hatch out, I just love them

Erin has some of the most gorgeous birds I have ever seen~ I wish I lived next door to her!!

 

[ChickcrazyCharlie]

I wish I lived half way between Amy and Erin. LOL I would be broke and in the poor house. All my money would be spent on gas and chickens.

 

[lilcrow]

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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your Buff Mottleds. I'm assuming the black in the hackles is coming from the Columbian, which you had to have to get your lovely mottling. They are just beautiful. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them. How do the roosters look? I'm guessing they show much more black...........STILL........VERY beautiful!

You know, there are a couple of people on here that have developed Silver Lace and also Gold Lace Brahmas. The fellow that developed the Silver Laced is currently (and has been for years) working on Blue Laced Red Brahmas. his user name is Big Medicine and he's a good friend of mine. I'm sure if you wanted to pick his brain about how to continue with your variety, he'd be more than happy to help out. He is such a nice person and that is how we became friends, he has taken pity on me many times in the past when I was up against some simple issue that I had no idea of how to proceed. He's even been kind enough to do some of my dirty work for me, like putting down a sick or injured bird when it needed to happen. I can't do it..............it makes me feel like a puss, but I've never been able to bring myself to deliberately kill something, even when it NEEDED to be done. What a chicken I am. ANYWAY, he is very kind and funny, I think you'd enjoy talking with him. I know the genetics for lacing is different from mottling, but there are some similarities and of course genetics are genetics. Sometimes it's a simple matter of the gentle tweaking of a certain allele, or whatever. I've got an entire generation of Partridge that have gone awry, I'm loosing the penciling on the feather pattern.

There are entire areas of the birds (seen best on the pullets) that have become barred, rather than penciled.

I thought initially that I needed to look at pattern genetics, but I found some info that leads me to believe it may be more connected to color. My birds are too light (golden) and they need to be darker, more red or dark brown. This is why I went nuts over Craig's Partridge hen. His birds have the most exquisite feather pattern, crisp and clean, they look perfect to me. Maybe this is a discussion that should be moved over to the genetics thread, if anyone would be interested in talking further about it. I've been wanting to bring up this issue with my birds anyway, so maybe I'll post over there and see if I can get any input.
PLEASE understand I am not trying to say anything negative, obviously you know what you're doing or you wouldn't have come so far with these guys; it's just that I always benefit from talking with folks about any given thing, so naturally I think everyone benefits from the same thing.
I guess I'm feeling a little gun shy since Casey left,

I don't want to offend, but also don't want to hold back info that might be helpful to someone.
Nancy

I'm gun shy too, plus I know way less than you do. Did I say something stupid? I am very enthuiastic because I just love Cochins.

Nope, not as far as I'm concerned, you didn't.