Mille Cochin Info

[thecochincoop]

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Cochincoop, what pretty girls!

My Cochin girls are so shy. Here's my fav: (Don't tell anyone!)

 

[JosieChick]

It is my understanding that calicos are really just mille fleurs with too much white. So in theory if you have birds with a bit more white you could breed them together, separate out your lightest chicks and breed them together and eventually get calico. Or you could look around for a juvenile or adult calico cochin roo for sale to cross over your mille fleur hens. There is a calico cochin thread on BYC you could try posting a want to buy thing on that thread and maybe someone has an extra roo? They are addictive little birds!!

This is my first time owning bantam cochins, I hatched my first ones last August and I just love them! I have been buying shipped eggs in different colors for my own enjoyment not showing them or anything. I cannot find the cochin chicks or eggs in my area.
I have tried twice to hatch out shipped calico eggs (more white feathering) and had no success either time. So right now I have milles, calicos, and black mottled in the incubator and are due the 5th but again the 2 calico eggs are clear. So my question is... Can I use the milles to make calicos and what would I breed the mille with to get the calico color or more white feathering? I am horrible at chicken genetics but really like the looks of them with more white feathering. Any info much appreciated!!
Or if anyone is in my area have chicks please PM me, I can't find them anywhere around me.

 

[destin0709]

JosieChick: OK Thanks

 

[JosieChick]

destin-Maybe someone else will chime in on this that has hatched more but I have hatched a few calico cochins and they were usually really light in color, almost yellow colored down. I was thinking after I wrote my reply the other night that you could also look for a hysterical mottled rooster that has a lot of white and cross that into your mille fleur then cross those chicks back together. If you could find a nice roo that would be a great way to add white and type at the same time!

 

[destin0709]

My millie's and mottled hatch on the 5th so crossing my fingers that the millie's come out with more white like you said. And if not maybe I will be able to use one of the mottled to breed with it then. Here's crossing my fingers they all hatch. I would've thought you crossed it with a white to get more white, so I would've done it all wrong. Although I'd probly fall in love with them no matter what color they came out.

 

[JosieChick]

I am hoping someone with more color genetics will chime in here but I have not heard of anyone crossing with a solid white bird. Not sure what would happen there but I am sure you would lose a lot of the pattern? Good luck with your hatch!!!

 

[thecochincoop]

I am hoping someone with more color genetics will chime in here but I have not heard of anyone crossing with a solid white bird. Not sure what would happen there but I am sure you would lose a lot of the pattern? Good luck with your hatch!!!

from everything that i have heard i don't think it's a good idea to use white. can't remember why but i think it messes up the pattern somehow. i have always been told to use black

 

[ki4got]

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I am hoping someone with more color genetics will chime in here but I have not heard of anyone crossing with a solid white bird. Not sure what would happen there but I am sure you would lose a lot of the pattern? Good luck with your hatch!!!

the mille pattern is recessive to solid colors, so if you breed a solid color to a mille, you will get a solid color, depending on the base color of the birds bred. i'm not up 100% on cochin colors but if you breed a white to a mille i think your birds will end up black

 

[destin0709]

Thanks for the info, I will see what comes out of my eggs. Hopefully some of my milles will have more white. Can't wait til the 5th!!