Is there a difference between Standard Cochin and Giant Cochins?

[crazy huhn]

I love Cochins and I am wondering if there is an "official" difference between the Standard Cochin size and the Giant Cochin? There is a breeder on ebay offering Giant Cochin hatching eggs (refering to the Cochin size, not the egg size).

 

[mikarod]

nope..not a difference at all.

Standard can mean Giant as well as bantam is banty and shorties.

 

[MandyH]

We raise Standard cochins, and they are giant balls of feathers! Some people call them giants and some call them standard but they are one in the same.

 

[crazy huhn]

Thanks a lot. I almost fell for it. Not that I would have any more room.....lol.........

 

[MandyH]

Don't fool with ebay, if you need eggs I got them!!! My Blue, Black, splash hens are laying up a storm right now. My partridge ones are a bit tempermental.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

I have Giant cochins from a friend and they are HUGE. Nothing like the standards from the hatchery. And very fluffy too.

 

[crazy huhn]

Quote:
Kristen H, I know, what I have posted a little further up...., but hey, maybe I can make some room during spring....My thought was, if the girls go broody next year, maybe I can get some eggs to put under them as I just had to give my cockerel away 2 weeks ago, because he crowed at 3 AM and my neighbors got cranky....Do you have photos of your flock or a webpage? Yikes, just got over a flu virus, but the Cochin virus is coming back....over and over again......

 

[MandyH]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=98047

There is a pic of some of the BBS pen on here. I still don't know what happened to my other pics that were on here.

 

[crazy huhn]

Kristen, I will PM you....

 

[LilPeeps]

If you look at a hatchery standard or "giant" cochin, it is dwarfed by an exhibition LF cochin.