Mille Cochin Info

[WestKnollAmy]

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WOW!

This is going to be better then TVs fall lineup

I can't wait to watch!

X2

 

[Msbear]

some have already started the process by using serama.. let me say, it will be a whole lot easier than that. He's an english line orpington bantam so he's pretty full and fluffy as it is. I would say he has better fluff than many MFC's I see on here

The foot fluff will take longer. I would say 4-6 generations until we're back in business. I will try my hardest to get the first generation this fall and work on two a year as I am just an impatient person. This first one is nothing exciting.. just getting a chocolate bird with some mottling and the start of cochin shape. Next year I will take those females and put them to an excellent cochin typed roo which will give me chocolate based males and black females. Hopefully, those chocolate based males will have some orange vermillion in the hackle and saddle. I will think of that bird like a black mottled with gold leakage and put that male to excellent quality lighter hens... which will give me chocolate females and no males since the genes is sex linked. It will be a while until I am breeding chocolate to chocolate.

 

[Mrshollywood]

This is so interesting to me! Who knew you could design your own chicken

I thought it was a cochin by the picture you posted and was surprised when you said it was a orpington, so pretty!!!!

I look forward to seeing progress pictures

 

[grimreaper]

HI I am new to this i am looking for a Milla Fleur Cochin Rooster. iIf anyone In Indiana Or Ohio along the us 20 or us 30 corridor has one for sale i would be interested.

 

[twinlights]

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I have a bunch of young roos, but I am in MA. Unless you want to ship.

 

[Funky Feathers]

I have a beautiful one for sale in the BST section.

 

[alpinefarm]

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Fascinating new project, Erin!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I think this is a fella I am going to cull. I kept him thinking maybe I could use him but I like my boys with more type than he is showing me.

And here is a pullet I had high hopes for but she seems to be falling apart on me. I love that she has feather tipping on her feet as well as her body but the type is starting to disappear. I hope she will get it back in another few months. She is only 4 1/2 months. I try not to look at her color and pattern. Type is the way to go and I have tried to stick to that. But as you see, after 2 years of breeding the color and pattern are showing up despite not working totally towards that end. It is in the birds, it will come. Type is too hard to get back later so I am questioning this girl and others like her. I need another 20 pens just to play and have fun with.

It is going to be a long winter. I don't plan to hatch much of anything though I still have kids growing up and eggs due to hatch. I doubt I will set much of anything else though. I feel I need to take a step back, evaluate what I have and then move forward with what I can keep after culling back to get some really nice stuff producing next spring. I feel my birds are still just average in the typiness area.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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Amy, You're doing great with the color/pattern! The roo looks near perfect in color/pattern. But I applaud your commitment to type. I think you're correct about the roo. He could use more chest width, and better wing carriage.

 

[Msbear]

Amy, I think you need to weigh the good with the bad. The chest on that little boy is just beautiful. He looks small overall but, if you put him to excellent quality girls, you may get something nice... the same with the hen. ..just depends on what you've got better.. which I am dying to see