Mille Cochin Info

[bantyman]

Hey Patty

I have a couple or three roos that could very easily have the red hackles Will know more for sure before to long If you be interested I will swap you for some eggs..or maybe not But you will have to pay shipping to get him to CA
Mike

 

[mjgigax]

CJ and Jackson and the frizzles.
I never have been fond of frizzles but Mille ones are changing my mind!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Danny,
you always have such typy birds! Even your Frizzle looks great. Keep working on it. These buggers are wonderful.
I think I will put a few of my Frizzle girls in with the light roo you sent me. DH and I both love him. The other roo, Dan the Man, seems to give me better MF color but Wizard is our love. Almost every son he produces looks just like him no matter what hen is in with him.
Thanks again for some fantastic typy blood!

 

[onthespot]

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Hey bantyman. I'd love some red hackle influence. I am getting a lot of mille markings on the breast, but black is just creeping into my flock here and there, especially the roos. I have two pens right now, but they are all mille mottled. I have my mottled roo (split) over mille hens, and I have a mille roo over a lot of mottled hens, most are split. I have a youngster pen growing out, not sure what I will do with what out of that pen. That pen is growing out more white showing. The mille over mottled pen has a lot of extra big spots on the mottled hen. I can't find my camera right now. Might be at my brother's house, but here's what some of the "extra white" hens look like. I have about eight or ten that look about like this, more or less.

Here you can see the black creeping up even in this spring's pullets. To me it looks cool on the hens, but it is disastrous on the boys.

 

[jbear]

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niiice!

 

[serendipityfarm]

I think my favorite little Mille hen is trying to go broody on me! I planned to let her raise some babies in the Spring, and it's getting COLD here now! But I must have put her out of the nest box 5 times today and every time I went out, there she was again. Took her out again at bedtime and put her on the roost. She just sat there all squatty...

PLEASE help me control myself and fight the urge to sneak some eggs under there... (I had secretly been stashing a few to try in the new incubator after the Silkie babies that are due this week)
Oh, I think I'm in trouble over here

 

[Funky Feathers]

Awww, give her those eggs. You want her to be happy, don't you? She'll do a better job than the incubator will and save on your electric bill. You don't have to plug her in, Lol!!

 

[Msbear]

Hey Patty, those pullets are nice. I'd love to see what it looks like on the boys. IMO your progress is to be expected. Just last generation you had 100% mottled birds in your program. You're doing the right thing and putting all those offspring back to typey splits. Keep the birds that best resemble mille fleur and cull all those heavy white girls and boys with way too much black on the hackle. If you have one with exceptional type, I would keep him and put him to your girls that lack the black. It seems, when outcrossing for type, I get birds that either resemble the typey parent bird OR the nicely patterned parent bird... it's getting crosses that take on both traits that is the mission though rather elusive. Im choosing typey so I have VERY tough decisions to make. Lot's of those not so nicely marked babies will still be considered in my project.

I keep going back to the progress page and seeing what HUGE progress some have made in color and I am very hopeful our projects will be just fine as already ....the improvements are super nice. Try and get two generations a year if you can. Hatch in Feb. and again in Oct

You live in San Diego!!! You have no excuse!

 

[DANNY]

Here is my first blue mille sport/splash.

Are these Calico's?

 

[Funky Feathers]

Beautiful colors!!

Hey guys, I have 18+ (up to 24) MFC eggs I am trying to sell with no luck. $50 plus shipping. I hate to have to throw these out, a bidder backed out and I need to ship these tomorrow morning. My auction ends in 5 hours. Anyone?? Please help! Pics of my birds are a few pages back. Please don't let these go to waste. My Roo has red hackles and good mottling.