Mille Cochin Info

[horsechick]

Hello,
Does anyone offer chicks for shipping?
Thank you,
Angela

 

[Funky Feathers]

I ship started birds, 3 months old and up. My 7 best are already spoken for. I may ship some at 2 months old if I can tell their quality.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Hello,
Does anyone offer chicks for shipping?
Thank you,
Angela

Hi, Angela.
Unfortunately finding breeders that will ship chicks out is going to be difficult, unless they are not serious about this variety. This is an on going project and we have to take care to keep our best so we can continue to breed and improve this variety.
I have hatched out hundreds of chicks in this variety for the past 2 1/2 years all year around and still never let go of birds until they are 4+ months old. To know what the type will be like and who may carry on the better pattern is very difficult to tell at chick age. A serious breeder has to hang on to most everything until it is several months old to evaluate whether it is good enough to keep for future breeding. No one wants to let their best escape them.

I encourage you to get started with this variety but it is only in it's infancy so if you get pattern you may not get type and if you get type, you may not get pattern.

I wish you the best of luck and hope you will join us in our struggle to get the best Mille Fleur bantam Cochins to place in front of judges so we can get them added into the SOP.

 

[Reyvaughn]

I know they are not Mille Fleur...

My next project came to me in a vented box yesterday! I got my bantam Chocolate Orps yesterday! That means my Chocolate bantam Cochin project will be getting under way as soon as they are all of age! I have two black b.Cochins in the grow out pen and I have a few mottleds, too. I may work on a chocolate mottled once I get some good leg feathering bred into the solid chocolate.

Well, here they are!


They are 3.5wks. I am guessing by leg/comb size I have 2 girls and 3 boys.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Cute! And interesting.

 

[georgialee]

I've enjoyed looking at all the pics! I hatched TONS of roos last season and only a few 'good' hens. I do feel like I improved upon my foundation stock though which I think is a great achievement I'm going to attach some pics, the roo is still young so he'll fill out some more in the next few months. FOrgive the pic quality - they were taken with my phone

 

[BirdCrazyLady]

Funky Feathers, do you have any more Roos that you would be willing to part with? I just started with Millies, I ordered 18 eggs and out of them only hatched three hens and no roos with good color. They are 4 months old and I rather not start back at the begining again with eggs, while trying to get them a man. Please PM me if you can help! Or anyone else that can help me out. Thank you so much for your time.

 

[Funky Feathers]

Hi, right now I don't. I am down to just my breeder birds. I have to hatch some out as soon as they start laying again. Not sure when that will be.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I have an auction up in the BST area that goes through Monday night for eggs, if anyone is interested. I have a few pens that are laying well but my girls are all starting to think about broodiness so this may be the last I offer for a while unless the other pens pick up again.

 

[davony's chicks]

I've enjoyed looking at all the pics! I hatched TONS of roos last season and only a few 'good' hens. I do feel like I improved upon my foundation stock though which I think is a great achievement I'm going to attach some pics, the roo is still young so he'll fill out some more in the next few months. FOrgive the pic quality - they were taken with my phone

beautiful birds! do you have any eggs for sale?
I missed Amy's auction. I bought some from Lynn in California last year but only had one that I kept.