Does any body know what breeds these chickens and bantams are?

[hdowden]

They dont exist in the uk. Are they standardised?

i dont think they are yet and i have only seen very very few of them

 

[mohawkbrian]

Ahhh. Thays why i dont knpw abput them. It would be great if they cpuld become standardised or brought to the uk. Also do you get large fowl cochins in the us

 

[aoxa]

Ahhh. Thays why i dont knpw abput them. It would be great if they cpuld become standardised or brought to the uk. Also do you get large fowl cochins in the us

Yes, large and bantam.

Blue Barred is a project colour. You could attempt to make it over there with your own stock - though not sure how. nicalandia would be who you would ask how.

I've ended up with ghost barring (white with light cream barring) but never anything as cool as blue barred.



I breed partridge Cochin (Standard)

 

[NosiphoChooks]

Sorry OP! I did warn you I have only kept chickens for a few months! I didn't notice the feathered feet on the first ones. We have pekin (cochin) millefleur bantams at home and they just looked so fluffy that I thought they were orps! Thats why you need the pros to answer! Learn something new every day.

 

[aoxa]

Sorry OP! I did warn you I have only kept chickens for a few months! I didn't notice the feathered feet on the first ones. We have pekin (cochin) millefleur bantams at home and they just looked so fluffy that I thought they were orps! Thats why you need the pros to answer! Learn something new every day.

Did you know Cochins (Pekins) were used to make the Orp? Probably why it looked so similar to you. Orps look a lot like cochins without feathered legs (and with more of a tail), but orps have white/pink legs and feet, and cochins have yellow (under the fluff).

 

[mohawkbrian]

Thats wierd cos we got standard cochin with no miniture and pekin bantams but no larger counterpart

 

[aoxa]

Thats wierd cos we got standard cochin with no miniture and pekin bantams but no larger counterpart

You're right. I'm looking it up and Pekins have a few differences than cochins.


Pekin Bantams

Uses: Exhibition.
Origin: Peking, China. Eggs: 120 - 160 White / Cream.
Weight: Cock: 680g Max.Hen: 570g Max.
Colours: Black, Blue, Buff, Cuckoo, Mottled, Barred, Birchen, Columbian, Lavender, Partridge, Silver Partridge, White (Standardised UK).
Useful to Know: Known as Cochin Bantams outside of the U.K. although there are differences between them.
Photo: A Black Pekin Bantam owned by Mr. A. Floyer. Photo courtesy Rupert Stephenson.

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ekin Bantams are true bantams, they have no large counterpart. They were originally Cochin Bantams when they arrived in the UK, however they had no relationship to large Cochins and looked quite different. They came from a different place (Peking in China) so after much debate over many years, they were renamed as 'Pekin Bantams'. Around the rest of the World, Cochin Bantams are similar in appearance to the British Pekin Bantams although breed standards are slightly different.
The first (Buff) Cochin Bantam were originally thought to have been found in Peking in the gardens of the Emperor's palace that was looted in 1859 by some of the 11'000 British and 6'700 strong French forces during the opium wars. Further birds were imported in later years and further colours followed, some, like the white being from white 'sports' that hatched from Buffs, crossed with white Booted Bantams.

 

[aoxa]

http://pekinclub.backyardpoultry.com/
also on this website, the front page has a picture of a lavender cuckoo pekin - which looks very similar to our version of blue barred. Thing is - lavender here is really called Self Blue in the standards. I don't use the lavender term at all. I've been lectured about using it.

 

[mohawkbrian]

Weird. I wonder if you could get cochin bantams in the uk as well as pekins

 

[mohawkbrian]

Having seen the picture of the lavendar cuckoo it looks like it has a conplete different base colour ti thr blue barred at the top of this thread. They do look actually blue were as the lavendars are more grey