Cochin Thread!!!

[Coopa Cabana]

Simmons - so sorry to hear about your hen. It's never easy to lose one.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Maybe it's because it's a cold and gray day here today. Maybe it's because I've been spending so much time putting together photos of stunning Cochins for the CI website. As long as I continue to work only with Golden Laced, I feel like my birds will never be up to par with anyone else's. Sometimes I think I should add a second Variety, but that will cut down on the space I need for the GL's.

Think I'll just put on another pot of coffee, pull up my big girl panties, and move on. Or maybe just go back to bed.

 

[Lady Ressler]

Maybe it's because it's a cold and gray day here today. Maybe it's because I've been spending so much time putting together photos of stunning Cochins for the CI website. As long as I continue to work only with Golden Laced, I feel like my birds will never be up to par with anyone else's. Sometimes I think I should add a second Variety, but that will cut down on the space I need for the GL's.

Think I'll just put on another pot of coffee, pull up my big girl panties, and move on. Or maybe just go back to bed.

Don't give up. The coffee will help. The birds need you to make them better.

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

Gail it cold and windy here. Contact me before doing anything rash with the GL. Got a call last night that it is possible they might start excavation on my new poultry building on Monday. I have to move my current building about 75ft because that is the site for the new 24 x40 garage/poultry building. Two neighbors showed up this morning and helped me split the building , move it, get it back together so birds are safe until the new one is ready to move in to. It sure is nice to have GREAT neighbors.

Craig

 

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[ki4got]

Maybe it's because it's a cold and gray day here today. Maybe it's because I've been spending so much time putting together photos of stunning Cochins for the CI website. As long as I continue to work only with Golden Laced, I feel like my birds will never be up to par with anyone else's. Sometimes I think I should add a second Variety, but that will cut down on the space I need for the GL's.

Think I'll just put on another pot of coffee, pull up my big girl panties, and move on. Or maybe just go back to bed.

if you DO decide to part with any gl, let me know please? i would like 1 pair to work with to start...

my incubator now holds 41 more potential cochins. 12 silver laced, 7 buff barred, 8 blue/splash, 7 red and 7 partridge. (eggs of course). so now we sit back and wait and

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this is my 3rd batch of eggs from this breeder, the first 2 batches both did quite well, so i'm hopeful. they were set on Wed.

 

[lilcrow]

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Gail, I relate so much to how you're feeling, but I keep telling myself that it will pass. I think back to this time last year and I felt something similar. I think it's the time of year, and being alone doesn't help either. I seem to get into a blue funk every fall and even consider getting rid of ALL of my birds............... but I won't. I feel overwhelmed at the thought of another winter and the work that it takes to care for the birds in the freezing weather. I've got two varieties - the Birchen and Blue/B/S and I think that maybe I should cut back to one variety, but I wouldn't know which one to ditch if I did.
As far as your birds ever coming up to par with others birds, that's not why your doing this, you're doing it for love and to save them from fading into history. I've seen pictures of your beautiful GL and you aren't that far off, they are beautiful and look every bit like good Cochins, without you I fear for the future of the variety. Hang in there girl friend, the sun will come out again. At least you're in Colorado where the sun shines nearly every day. Thank your lucky stars you're not in Ohio, we won't see the sun again until April.

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

Gail, I relate so much to how you're feeling, but I keep telling myself that it will pass. I think back to this time last year and I felt something similar. I think it's the time of year, and being alone doesn't help either. I seem to get into a blue funk every fall and even consider getting rid of ALL of my birds...............but I won't. I feel overwhelmed at the thought of another winter and the work that it takes to care for the birds in the freezing weather.I've got two varieties - the Birchen and Blue/B/S and I think that maybe I should cut back to one variety, but I wouldn't know which one to ditch if I did.
As far as your birds ever coming up to par with others birds, that's not why your doing this, you're doing it for love and to save them from fading into history. I've seen pictures of your beautiful GL and you aren't that far off, they are beautiful and look every bit like good Cochins, without you I fear for the future of the variety.Hang in there girl friend, the sun will come out again. At least you're in Colorado where the sun shines nearly every day. Thank your lucky stars you're not in Ohio, we won't see the sun again until April.

Nancy keep the Birchens. They are about as good as any in the country! Saw that at Sedalia/ Western National. Agree that if I was only breeding to win I would only keep Blacks but I enjoy the challenge of trying to work with patterned birds. I don't need more varieties but I wonder sometimes if we all couldn't/shouldn't work together in a different way to get results. I don't have the answers but wide open to suggestions.

 

[Scifisarah]

I was reading that article about what to look for in young cochins - very helpful! - but I do not know what he meant by a "crow headed cochin". Could someone post a photo of a "crow headed" bird next to one they would consider "typy", so I can see the difference? I am so used to my Ideal Poultry hatchery birds that I can see it is going to take some work to train my eye for what to look for in a good bird. Looking forward to starting anew with some of Amy's (West Knoll) beautiful mottled babies.