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[Studio2770]

Our cochin is 26 weeks old and started squatting on Monday.Comb and wattles are bigger and pinker/redder.

 

[PolkaDot77]

How fun! I love the funny first eggs that chickens lay, too. I've gotten round ones, elongated ones, tiny tiny ones, etc. Let us know when you find the magic egg!

 

[Kelsie2290]

Hope your girl hurries up with that first egg for you, tell her it would be a nice xmas present.

 

[Studio2770]

Hope your girl hurries up with that first egg for you, tell her it would be a nice xmas present.

She laid hers today! Barely 6 months old!

 

[Kelsie2290]

Congratulations on her first egg! She makes a good Santa!

 

[Studio2770]

Congratulations on her first egg! She makes a good Santa!

Hopefully she lays tomorrow too! But I can't expect too much eggs out of a cochin, maybe she'll prove to be a great layer!

 

[PolkaDot77]

Go Cochin, go!! Surprisingly, my Buff Cochin is one my most reliable egg layers.

 

[Studio2770]

Go Cochin, go!! Surprisingly, my Buff Cochin is one my most reliable egg layers.

I want more cochins! How often does she lay? I doubt Gracie can compete with our leghorns though.

 

[Kelsie2290]

She might surprise you. The Leghorns are in another league of course, but Cochins actually seem to be pretty decent layers in the weeks/months when they aren't broody... most of them just go broody -a lot-, so that brings their total egg count down. Since she is a barred color, if they crossed in something like Barred Rock pretty close up to get the color, she might turn out to be a decent little layer.

 

[Studio2770]

Maybe she'll lay as much as our EE. Hopefully she doesn't go broody soon. She actually wasn't supposed to be barred, but blue. Barred wasn't even in the color selection!