Hey Patty, Gator, Mike and other mille cochin enthusiasts

[tfpets]

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Type or not, your little Rooster can strike a pose!! I vote for him for Rooster of the year as "Eye Candy"!! I just love that center pick with his head turned sideways, thanks for the morning smile.

Your pics are awesome! I have tried to get some decent shots of my babies but between being so absent minded, my Full time work, having a narrow time frame to get a picture, the heat over 108 degrees, and chasing these guys in and out their little trap door - I'm a lousy photographer! This is my best so far.

Hope to some day be able to actually breed the Mille Fleur Cochin stock I have now and see the results myself, knowing the hard work all of you have already put into them.

 

[Msbear]

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Hey T, do you have any pics of these chicks as they have grown?

 

[Msbear]

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Hippi, I'd love to get juvenile and adult pics of these for the down color analogy. eta: I found Juve pics on page 33... I guess just get some pics of them when they mature and we'll upload them then.

And AlpineFarms and whomever else may have some great chick, juvenile and adult pics of the same bird, I would love to see them so I can use them in my down color analogy.

 

[ShysCreations]

Something just for fun with the mille chicks...Am doing blocks with white border/black hens and a white hen/black border too. Quilt projects can be a little like chickens...too many at once!

comb& wattle are coming in....a roo?

This one has a teeny bit of white at the wing bases, hoping to grow more. An earlier spring chick started quite solid, but grew in alot of white later

 

[alpinefarm]

I am so enjoying the photos everyone!

Josh, that little roo has got charisma, for sure...

...and sackman, I love both your "works in progress"---mini-milles on quiltblocks.

...and Erin, I'll do my best with getting some taken of my chicks pronto.

I'm amazed how gentle the mf roos are with the 8 new babies. Talking to them, pointing out food morsels, careful not to step on them.
Years ago, I had a lemon blue bantam cochin roo that was a truly proactive papa. He helped brood the eggs from start to finish, was on the nest most of the time, and would move over and settle down to "egg-sit" when the hen wanted to get out to dust-bathe or eat...and he tended the hatchlings, as well, protecting and teaching them every bit as much as the hen. I fell in love with cochins on account of him.

 

[hippichick]

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Hippi, I'd love to get juvenile and adult pics of these for the down color analogy. eta: I found Juve pics on page 33... I guess just get some pics of them when they mature and we'll upload them then.

And AlpineFarms and whomever else may have some great chick, juvenile and adult pics of the same bird, I would love to see them so I can use them in my down color analogy.

Hey, Erin. I'll try to get those pics tomorrow. I took a few today of my first chicks that I hatched from Lynne. They're 3 months old now. I don't know if you need those also, but if you do, let me know.

 

[cruzinTbird]

Here's an update on my projects -

These are chicks that I hatched last fall out of my Ralph birds

This is how they look now

 

[cruzinTbird]

Heres the chicks I hatched from Lynne's eggs in Feb.

This is how they look now, at exactly five months old

 

[Msbear]

Thanks, T!!! They are all just gorgeous. You have a wonderful start. Make sure to keep us posted as you get babies

I'll update my page again tomorrow if I get the time.

 

[cruzinTbird]

Finally got time to take pictures of the pair I got from Mike and a few of their offspring . I am hoping to mix and match the three different bloodlines and see what they produce.
This pair from Mike-

offspring