Large Fowl Cochin Thread

[ruffledfeathers1234]

Theese are my Golden Laced Cochins!!! They are one of my favorite chickens to raise and breed. They meet me at the coop door every day and wait for their morning feeding, they are just pets.

 

[Dannee]

I have a Silver Laced Cochin and a Partridge Cochin....They are 8 weeks old now My Lacy(Silver Laced) looked like she was going to be black, and now all of a sudden white markings are showing up out of nowhere! Jenny my Partridge is a beautiful reddish brown with black markings. They are sweet as all get out!!!

Jenny

Lacy-found out she loves jewelry(my toe ring)

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Oh, I am so excited to see a Full Size Cochin thread. I raise the Partridge Cochins as you can see the male in my avatar. Once my computer is working right as far as moving pictures from one place to another(ughhhh)..I will post some new pics. I also just set my incubator with 23 Partridge Cochin eggs...

 

[Bo Garrett]

Well, I have 4 brown red LF and 7 brown LF out so far. The brown red hens are laying slowly now as the oldest of the two hens is seven the younger is six. Won't hatch anymore browns this year just needed a a few to keep the project going. I have an eight year old black hen that has laid 4 eggs, she is mated to a blue male. I will set her eggs tomorrow. Partridge started slowly but I now have about 20 and that will do for the year, close to 100 mottleds and 100 blacks and 25 or so whites also have a few blues hatched and 50 barred rocks.
The quality in the blacks and mottleds is looking very good and this has been a pullet year ( about 70/30 pullet to cockerel ratio) so far. Next year I'm working on improving the type on the partridge by crossing into the black lines. Hope to see over 200 LF cochins at Indy this fall, there were nearly 150 in '06.

Bo

 

[emptynester]

I have just started with the LF cochins this spring but already I see I am missing some colors! I have blue, black, splash, buff, and gold laced. So far I am kind of partial to the gold laced. I would like to find some silver laced hopefully and ummmm, what other colors am I missing?

 

[Bo Garrett]

Quote:
Standardized varieties are:
black
blue
white
buff
partridge
gold laced
silver laced
barred
brown

Non-standardized varieties that I know of are:
lemon blue
brown red
red
columbian
mottled


I didn't have my Standard of Perfection handy so I may have missed one or two but I think this is close. I have always wanted to make birchen large fowl cochins but after several attempts I gave that one up. I am working on browns and brown reds. The browns were once shown in very good quality by several breeders and about 30 years ago or so they went the way of the dinosaur. The genetics still exist so I am trying to find the combination. I am also working on Mottled which are a very striking variety, I have hatched about 100 of these this year.
Tom, did I miss any?

Blessings to all,


Bo

 

[miraclz5]

Hi Everyone,
I am new to chickens this spring (had RIR as a kid in 4H...20+ years ago)...my kids and I REALLY wanted mostly cochins...Large Fowl Cochins! We found a breeder....and we had a case of don't count your chickens until they hatch....and she did not hatch out as many as she planned...she had some other wonderful breeds....and we took a few of each. A friend up the street ended up getting a few in a managers special....and so we ended up with 9 cochins, all straight run of course...we lost 2 and ended up with only 2 pullets (two wonderful girls, Daisy is our black and Dahlia is our dark blue)! Very sad when we wanted mostly cochins

Low and behold, our friend up the street...her turkey order got messed up and so she got a free managers special along with her additional turkeys....Lucky us.....she got 9 more cochins! Woohoo! We are happy campers...they are straight run, but we will take our chances and surely get a few more beautiful hens! Will keep you posted! We have we have buff, blue, silver laced and 1 partridge....more than one of each so we will see!!! So happy...also REALLY happy that we found a happy home for 2 of our roosters....two beautiful blues who will enjoy lots of pretty hens! Life is good!

I know my post is a little wordy (and reposted from the cochin thread....just feel like it's not the right place for me....) I am just excited about our cochins and our new cochin babies and finding this thread!!!

Lovin my chickens!!!

 

[bburn]

Quote:
Standardized varieties are:
black
blue
white
buff
partridge
gold laced
silver laced
barred
brown

Non-standardized varieties that I know of are:
lemon blue
brown red
red
columbian
mottled


I didn't have my Standard of Perfection handy so I may have missed one or two but I think this is close. I have always wanted to make birchen large fowl cochins but after several attempts I gave that one up. I am working on browns and brown reds. The browns were once shown in very good quality by several breeders and about 30 years ago or so they went the way of the dinosaur. The genetics still exist so I am trying to find the combination. I am also working on Mottled which are a very striking variety, I have hatched about 100 of these this year.
Tom, did I miss any?

Blessings to all,


Bo

So, Bo.....you have the Barred LF Cochins? I think I read that right. If you end up with too many hens let me know as I am just over in Arkansas and would buy a couple of hens from you at some point. I have a Barred Roo and we hatched out eggs out of him and the Black Cochin we had left so I have a few hens growing out. But my goal has always been to find Barred Cochin hens....they are just hard to find.

 

[scrange79]

Just curious.

Of you large fowl cochin owners, how many eggs/week do you get from your hens? I have two cochins who I mostly picked to be the eye candy of the coop, but still want some eggs from them.

Thanks,
Angie

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

I dont know about others but I have 2 cochins hens that are 4 years old and are l laying everyday. I was very disappointed when they were younger as they were not the best egg layers I was lucky to get 2-3 a week between them Now its everyday. that is when they are not broody or sitting on eggs. I swear they take turns one goes then the other either takes her eggs over or the chicks. The younger hens that are in the same run dont lay half as many eggs.