Crele Bantam Cochin Project

[JenEric Farms]

Can't wait to see your progress.

 

[ShysCreations]

Phoenix--He is quite beautiful!! The Crele is a lovely color on cochins. Now to get them to the round, volleyball shape!

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Well, I think you're off to a fantastic start, and approaching in correctly.

Just stay true to your plan, and you will prevail.

Having said that

, I will say that at some point you may want to breed in (a Cochin!) that is based on e+ (duckwing). The Crele purists (I'm not one, but I know they're out there!) will tell you that they have to have the duckwing to be a true Crele. I'm thinking if your cockerel was based on e+, the duckwing would be obvious by now (?). But maybe it's there and I'm just missing it.

I applaud your work, tenacity and commitment! Good job!

 

[kelliepulido]

nice

 

[nzpouter]

did you use cuckoo cochin x BBR cochin?

 

[swheat]

Here is my project Crele cochin roo(actually a Barred Partridge), I can't find a BBR cochin, but I am going for the Crele look-a-like. He is F1. Sort of hard to tell on a frizzle but I want to start with frizzle along the way, instead of incorporating it in later.

PFF your birds have good color. Wish I had hatched a hen with the color on yours.


F1 Barred X Partridge(needs more red in the hackle & saddle areas).

 

[wwmicasa1]

Hi all~!

I'm also working on this color. My F2 chicks just hatched last month & I have some high hopes for a few of them. It is not an easy color to reproduce. My F1 roo has excellent shape & I'm hoping he has passed it on to his chicks. I'll get a pic of him today. I'm not as far along as PPF or Swheat but do have my fingers crossed that this will be an interesting project for me......if I live that long

 

[swheat]

I have had some solid white chick hatch from my F2 eggs. I was baffled at first and didn't know where the white chicks were coming from. I will be using them also just to see what may come from them. I am not really sure how these came about. I think PFF replied on my thread I posted when I was getting the white chicks. wwmicasa1 have you had any white chicks hatch from you F2's ?

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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I've been told that generations back, a lot of breeders would breed in whites to improve type, because white is recessive in Cochins. However, any time two birds carrying recessive white are bred, the white will become dominant and the result can be a solid white bird. Just one of those hidden genes that you won't know your bird is carrying until it's bred.

 

[PhoenixFeatherFarms]

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Yes I did reply when you got the white chicks hatch

Can't wait till my girls start laying so I can see what my f2s look like.