Mille Cochin Info

[WestKnollAmy]

Mike! It is snowing at your place??? Wow! I love snow....in moderation.

Love your photos! Your birds and photos are always so nice! Makes me smile!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

dang Amy!!! Gorgeous mottled birds you have up for grabs!

I so miss Shawnee! Wish I could go back soon. I just miss the great state of Oklahoma is all there is to it.

Thanks! They are lovely.
However, I had a lot of folks wanting to buy a pair but when I showed them the photos a month or more back they could not see the potential of these little gems. Now they have bloomed and are glorious.
Mike is getting the roo so I guess the pullet will stay here and go back into my breeding pens. Oh well, another lovely pair of Mottleds was missed by someone. However, this is how I build my breeding pens. It seems everyone wants them to look like show beauties from the start.

Not every bird looks like my show winners. This hen is almost 4 years old. I just started putting her in shows. Her photo at a year had people asking why I even bought her. Now I can say...here's why!

 

[JosieChick]

Westknollamy- I have a pair of mottled blacks that I hatched from you this past spring. The pullet is very pretty but has minimal mottling on her chest at about 6 months. Will that develop over time? I think she is going through an "awkward" stage right now because she looked really typey as a four month old but is a bit gangly these days! She is the friendliest little girl, so chatty and follows me all over the pen. The roo has a split breast so he is just going to stay with my big flock of layers. I actually really like using extra cochin cockerels as my watchdogs for my layers. Plus the girls don't get beat up by a large fowl roo over mating them!

I am also wondering what you think about pairing a really typey solid black split to mottled roo over this mottled pullet this spring. I am new to genetics but would love some more black mottled, they are just lovely!

That hen is just gorgeous!!!

Thanks! They are lovely.
However, I had a lot of folks wanting to buy a pair but when I showed them the photos a month or more back they could not see the potential of these little gems. Now they have bloomed and are glorious.
Mike is getting the roo so I guess the pullet will stay here and go back into my breeding pens. Oh well, another lovely pair of Mottleds was missed by someone. However, this is how I build my breeding pens. It seems everyone wants them to look like show beauties from the start.

Not every bird looks like my show winners. This hen is almost 4 years old. I just started putting her in shows. Her photo at a year had people asking why I even bought her. Now I can say...here's why!

 

[County Boy]

Mike! It is snowing at your place??? Wow! I love snow....in moderation.

Love your photos! Your birds and photos are always so nice! Makes me smile!

Thanks Amy~!

Here are some more pics of Sunshine Roo & Remington! Remington has more type than the pics show.

 

[JosieChick]

Hahaha! Pic #2 is the best! Which ends the head!!!

Thanks Amy~!

Here are some more pics of Sunshine Roo & Remington! Remington has more type than the pics show.

 

[Fancy Feathers]

The infamous headless chicken! Love your boys, Mike

Lindsey I think the Mottleds get more white tipping every molt, so she should get more mottled.. & I think a black split over a mottled will give you mottled, but again, with minimal tipping. I'm sure if I'm wrong someone will correct me

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I have been amazed at how much Mottleds can change pattern. The hen pictured above looked like this when I got her. She was about a year old.



A little more than a year later she looked like this.......



And you see what she looks like now in the photo a few posts up. I am thrilled that she filled out so very nicely! She just bloomed this year so I was talked into entering her into a few shows. We have another this Sat.
I would love to take her daughter but she lost her tipping with this last molt. She is out of the pair in the first photo of this post. This is a photo from back in the summer. She is 3 years old.



And here she was at 8 months old.



She is very dark right now with very little white. I had to check her tag to make sure it was her! I will try to get a photo.

But yes, you could breed your black split to your Mottled but you never know how those genes will line up and what the modifiers will do. You could get black kids for 2 years and then bang, a bit of tipping shows up. I have had solid black kids for more than a year before they molt out and have any white. Those are typy but their tipping is much too small for my projects so they go in my pet pens. I breed those sometimes to roos like this.....




And I want to apologize to anyone coming here looking for MFC. I get side tracked talking bantam Cochin, any color!

 

[JosieChick]

Thanks Amy for the info! I think she looks a lot like the girl in the first pic so I will wait and see how she develops and plan on pairing her with that roo in the spring to see what I get for babies. Sorry to everyone for the brief rabbit trail on mottled!

I have been amazed at how much Mottleds can change pattern. The hen pictured above looked like this when I got her. She was about a year old.



A little more than a year later she looked like this.......



And you see what she looks like now in the photo a few posts up. I am thrilled that she filled out so very nicely! She just bloomed this year so I was talked into entering her into a few shows. We have another this Sat.
I would love to take her daughter but she lost her tipping with this last molt. She is out of the pair in the first photo of this post. This is a photo from back in the summer. She is 3 years old.



And here she was at 8 months old.



She is very dark right now with very little white. I had to check her tag to make sure it was her! I will try to get a photo.

But yes, you could breed your black split to your Mottled but you never know how those genes will line up and what the modifiers will do. You could get black kids for 2 years and then bang, a bit of tipping shows up. I have had solid black kids for more than a year before they molt out and have any white. Those are typy but their tipping is much too small for my projects so they go in my pet pens. I breed those sometimes to roos like this.....




And I want to apologize to anyone coming here looking for MFC. I get side tracked talking bantam Cochin, any color!

 

[County Boy]

Thanks Amy for the info! I think she looks a lot like the girl in the first pic so I will wait and see how she develops and plan on pairing her with that roo in the spring to see what I get for babies. Sorry to everyone for the brief rabbit trail on mottled!

I don't care and I don't think many of us will. The majority of us like mottleds as well in my opinion!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I know I don't! Weren't alot of these colors used to help make the Mille Cochin anyway?