Cochin Thread!!!

[humphrey farms]

Oh dear me, she's horrible. You should probably send her to me.

Actually, for not quite 6 months I think she's lovely.. nice tight wing set, beautiful head, good chest and depth of body, looks like she'll have a good cushion. -- I hope someone else chimes in because I don't actually have large fowl yet, but I love her. Seriously, you should send her to me.

Thank you. When you speak of her cushion are you talking about her butt & tail?????

 

[ki4got]

woohoo! I candled all the unhatched eggs last night, and saw NO signs of life anywhere. but because my hands aren't 100% put off cleaning until today. someone heard my grumbling about only 1 buff barred. LOL another was fully zipped, and shrinkwrapped. so he's now in with the rest. now i'm not sure if i'm crossing fingers for a pair, or 2 pullets so i can get a good buff roo down the road. LOL

so 10 chicks total.

 

[ki4got]

ok double posted because the first didn't show up... go figure.

 

[Fancy Feathers]

Thank you. When you speak of her cushion are you talking about her butt & tail?????

Over her back and to her tail

woohoo! I candled all the unhatched eggs last night, and saw NO signs of life anywhere. but because my hands aren't 100% put off cleaning until today. someone heard my grumbling about only 1 buff barred. LOL another was fully zipped, and shrinkwrapped. so he's now in with the rest. now i'm not sure if i'm crossing fingers for a pair, or 2 pullets so i can get a good buff roo down the road. LOL

so 10 chicks total.

 

[davony's chicks]

I love this picture I took yesterday. Looks like he's saying
"I am lion, hear me roar!"

Awesome picture! This should be entered into pick of the week!

 

[davony's chicks]

From materials on a truck to building up in less than 9 hrs. Tomorrow I HAVE to wash birds for the show this weekend! This will be my new Cochin shed when I get it finished on the inside later this fall.

I'm Jealous Craig! Very nice!

 

[davony's chicks]

I'll be re-setting my cochin pens soon, for blue (bbs) and mille fleur, and just hatched out 5 silver laced, 2 red, 1 buff barred and 1 partridge. disappointed on buff barred, but can always cross to awesome type buff if i want. the partridge i'm kinda hoping is a roo. then i can put him over my 2 blue partridge girls (if i ever take them out of my mille pen - 100% fertility and 100% hatch lately from these 2 girls!)

Congratulations! cute babies. I have been so tempted to incubate but really don't want to have to keep them in all winter!

 

[ki4got]

Quote: i don't plan to keep them in all winter... here in sw virginia the winters are usually pretty mild, and i plan to start integrating them into the outside chick pen probably in another 3-4 weeks. complete with heat emitter. then once they're used to the temps and free ranging, they'll get to graduate to the big coop like everyone else.

 

[Mr. Ree]

Thanks Casey!

No problem. Good luck with her.


~Casey

 

[qldchook]

Looks like a sinus infection to me. Just treated a bird for one, and like yours it just appeared one day. She acted totally fine otherwise, but had this spot on her, just like your bird. It got massive before I got it taken care of. I also put her to herself, especially since she was penned with birds who shared a waterer, and didnt want it spread through my flock. Gave her antibiotics and cleaned it every other day with warm water, and flushed it with VetRX every day I cleaned it. In a little over a week, she was as good as new.

And, is it just me or is anyone else dealing with birds having the sneezes? I think the weather over the weekend really took a toll on my birds. It was in the 70's most of last week, and rainy and chilly over the weekend, back up near 80 for most of this week, and now I have a few birds sneezing. And it looks to be more of the chilly rainy weather for this weekend. I started giving everything I have some VetRX, and mixing V&E in the water hoping to snip it before it gets to something worse. And, has anyone else seen a spike in mites on their birds? I have noticed a few on the birds the past few days.

~Casey

Hi, I am in Australia so do not know if anything simililar overthere. I have never seen it since but once was enough. I had a chicken with similiar swollen eye. Rang a vet and he suspected "eye worm" no idea of correct name. Advised a diluted peroxide solution (cannot remember dilution so please do not just experiment) be sqeezed into eye. It was horrendous, these tiny worms exited the eye immediately. Really gross but extremely effective.