Fluffy lamb's Bantam Cochin thread!

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I doubt I would be able to get a male/female pair, probably one or the other. I would cross with regular feathered cochins, then breed breed offspring back to them to get silkieds. Should I try to keep colors pure, or do you think I should just mix them?

I would say it depends on what your goals are for them. My goal with mine is preservation of the variety and to breed them to the standard with the hopes one day they could be accepted in alongside frizzled Cochins as a variety of the breed, so I opted to only breed them in pure colors. I might end up mixing varieties in an attempt to 'silkie' more varieties of Cochin bantam sometime in the future, though. And a fair number of people also just keep them in mixed color pens just for fun, and that's perfectly fine, too.

 

[Chikyboy]

I would say it depends on what your goals are for them. My goal with mine is preservation of the variety and to breed them to the standard with the hopes one day they could be accepted in alongside frizzled Cochins as a variety of the breed, so I opted to only breed them in pure colors. I might end up mixing varieties in an attempt to 'silkie' more varieties of Cochin bantam sometime in the future, though. And a fair number of people also just keep them in mixed color pens just for fun, and that's perfectly fine, too.

I would like them because they are really cool, and to make them more common. I would also like to cross them with frizzled cochins to make a sizzled cochin.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Aw, well I think no matter how you breed them would work out just fine for that, then!

I was actually thinking about how easy making sizzled Cochins would be not that long ago. Outcross silkied to frizzled, cross the resulting frizzles back to silkied, and bam, 1/4 of the chicks are sizzled, just like that! Much easier than most of the projects I have in mind would be, anyway, like silkie-ing Chocolates or Bobtails as I mentioned before.

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

So I'm here today to give one of the saddest announcements to everyone here and to all my friends I've made on this thread and to everyone on this website. This pains me more than anything I've ever had to deal with, but after a long and painful amount of arguing with my mom we've decided to sell off most of my beloved hens and roosters... My mom has said that she is and I quote:

"I'm F*cking done with chickens and I want them all gone" "they were fun in the beginning, but now they are just a chore and a waste of time and money"

So I can only now have five hens and one rooster. I'm so sad and through this arguing and plan making I'm crying at just even the thought of selling me loved hens. I love them so much and they all feel like family and now I must say goodbye to most of them.

I'm now deciding who will stay with my flock and who will go and these are some of the hardest things I've had to do. I know for a fact I will be keeping Susan and Eda, but I don't know who else. I'm Also trying to decide between my two beloved boys Buff Buck and Darcy.

We are planning on using the money from selling them to get a metal horse trailer and that way we will solve the biggest problem, the wood mites that have absolutely invaded our flock and wooden coop! I'm saying this to mainly you all because I don't really have many other people who like or want to talk about chickens.

This does also mean that my whole selling hatching eggs and starting a business has gone completely out the window and will never happen until I eventually go to college and can get my own place with my own chickens and restart my business.

I am thinking about possibly getting an eglu coop do I can have Darcy and his own hens and Buff Buck in the horse trailer with the flock.

 

[Chikyboy]

So unfortunately two of the chicks died. It was likely due to the heat.

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

Gooooood morning everyone

 

[Chikyboy]

Gooooood morning everyone View attachment 3626924

Hey! Got some new chicks!

 

[Chikyboy]

So Fluffy, if I would order eggs from you, is there any way you could separate your frizzles long enough to get 6-12 eggs? Since I mainly want blue frizzles

 

[NagemTX]

Oh I have some pictures!

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

So Fluffy, if I would order eggs from you, is there any way you could separate your frizzles long enough to get 6-12 eggs? Since I mainly want blue frizzles

Hhmmm I don't think so, I only have 2 and they may not be laying right now anyway