Cochin Thread!!!

[County Boy]

Thank you so I guess he is bad because he is not hatchery.... but thank you for your in put

Did you get him from a hatchery? Hatcheries usually aren't good show birds.

 

[elieugene6]

Question. I have been working on self blue. I have what I believed to be a black split to self blue pullet that finally started laying well I had her in with my black sq roo because she had good type and I wanted to hatch out a few more blacks. Then after getting a few eggs I put her in with my self blues. Well all of her eggs got put in the incubator. One hatched a few days ago and it is a chocolate brown chick. By that I mean the chick is all one color, chocolate. Now I know this isn't chocolate or dun from looking at pics of those chicks. Any ideas what color and what has happened?

 

[ki4got]

Question. I have been working on self blue. I have what I believed to be a black split to self blue pullet that finally started laying well I had her in with my black sq roo because she had good type and I wanted to hatch out a few more blacks. Then after getting a few eggs I put her in with my self blues. Well all of her eggs got put in the incubator. One hatched a few days ago and it is a chocolate brown chick. By that I mean the chick is all one color, chocolate. Now I know this isn't chocolate or dun from looking at pics of those chicks. Any ideas what color and what has happened?

post pics of the parents and the chicks? no way to guess without seeing what you're looking at, I think.

 

[Cynthia12]

hummmm...............

 

[NanaKat]

My little Birchen


Pretty sure this is a little girl. Hoping more white comes in as she gets older?

How old is she? The Birchen should develop more white with the next molt.

 

[mjgigax]

well, so much for my hopes of having bbs cochins (for now)... something got my blue girl today. she was just coming up on POL, looking very nice.

I got home and let the dogs out, my youngest std poodle, Sunny, starts wandering around behind the coops up into the woods. since he's an avid egg-eater i have a tendency to follow him by sight to see if he can tell me where the girls are hiding eggs. instead i find a mass of blue feathers spread in about a 4' circle. no body. but then he went over to the fence line, and there was what was left of the carcass (legs wings neck and body cavity, all cleaned of meat) hanging from the barbed wire. I wasn't sure if it was the pullet or roo, but turned out to be the pullet...

from what i can tell, she was killed where the feather pile is, and then snagged on the fence when whatever killed her tried to take her with it.

the roo's just fine. but i don't have any girls to put with him now, so do i keep him in the hopes of finding another blue girl in the next 3-6 months or sell him off with my other excess roos and start over in the spring? my only hens are the self blue (for sale with her roo) and 4 in my mille fleur pen. and a ton of mille fleur chicks. (plus some silver laced, buff barred, red and partridge)

suggestions? (and no, shipping a bird isn't an option right now since i'm out of work until the end of November).

So sorry! Dogs killed my Blue mottled cockerel, among others.

 

[mjgigax]

mjgigax I'd love to see some recent pictures of your Mille Fleurs

Sorry about your pullet, Karen

I'll get some up soon. I'm getting 2/3 of my pullets with pretty consistently good buff. they6 start out to look like they will not have enough chevrons but develope more and more as they grow. One of my foundation hens had hardly any as a pullet but now is just about overed with them.

 

[Sk8inChick(en)]

Hello there!

I've been reading this thread and looking at all the pictures. What beautiful birds you all have!

I just want to ask a quick question about Cochins. How do you pronounce the name? Is it cawk-in or coh-shin? Or something else?

Thanks! I just wanted to clear this up once and for all.

 

[BantyChickenLuv]

Hello there!

I've been reading this thread and looking at all the pictures. What beautiful birds you all have!

I just want to ask a quick question about Cochins. How do you pronounce the name? Is it cawk-in or coh-shin? Or something else?

Thanks! I just wanted to clear this up once and for all.

Like co-chin, exactly like it is spelled.

 

[ki4got]

Hello there!

I've been reading this thread and looking at all the pictures. What beautiful birds you all have!

I just want to ask a quick question about Cochins. How do you pronounce the name? Is it cawk-in or coh-shin? Or something else?

Thanks! I just wanted to clear this up once and for all.

co (rhymes with toe) ch (like in chubby) in (not out)