Mille Cochin Info

[ShysCreations]

Amy, the above pullet is one of the best typed I've seen in MFC. You are making strides in the breed/variety!!!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Thank you.
I think she is still long backed, needs better wing carriage and a better head but she is closer to what I am trying to achieve.
This shows the better pattern but not as much type as I would like. She is one of many I have in with my darling Schmoozle to help with type.

I do appreciate the comments on her! Thank you again!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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It was fun to start pretty much from scratch with the birds but purchasing typy birds and well patterned birds to work on the project is grand, too.

I have plenty of land but my time keeps running short. I am trying to cut back with other breeds so I can focus more on my bantam Cochin varieties but people keep giving me birds! Those darn peafowl are going to run me ragged until I can get them home here to the farm. Maybe next summer I will be more organized. I think I am one of the few that hatches so many in the MFC project. I also cull a lot. It is going to be a long time before I ever have a perfect MFC but when I do I will enter it in the shows and try to get more publicity for the variety. I see no reason to enter one that is mediocre. And my well patterned birds all seem only mediocre in type at this point.

Your Mottled and buff Columbians would be a great start in creating your own blood line of MFC. At least you have the basis for it with those breeds.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I have always used the Mottled in my breeding program. In my bloodlines where I get too much red and not enough white tipping or the black chevrons the Mottleds come into play. I started my breeding program basically from scratch so I have always added the Mottled. They also bring in great type. I am still working on that perfect bird but every year get a bit closer.
The pullet in the bottom of this first photo is a daughter of the roo I first had from Bantyman's bloodline. I crossed him with a Schmoozle daughter and got this lovely lady. Schmoozle is a MF/Mottled roo that you all have probably seen on here. I use him a lot as well as Xavier.

I thought that would probably be the best bet. Would it also "darken" up the buff color? Or will it do anything to that? Will it "smutt" the buff color?

 

[bantyman]

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The mottled wont darken the buff color or smut it any It will add the chevrons and type The addition of the partridge will darken them up

 

[WestKnollAmy]

It has helped to stabilize the buff color and keep it from being washed out. It has never caused smut but the partridge has caused it, that is why I only have one pen of that breeding.
The Mottled genes help get that white tip on the feathers and will put the chevrons in place, though a lot more breeding to get them right, it at least introduces the genes into the recipe.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Well, I took some pictures of my "future" breeders.

The cockerel (young, too much white, but what the heck! ) He obviously does NOT like being cold...


Lil Ropo, the best broody hen I have!


Mottled Blue Frizzled Cochin bantam pullet, next to a back view of the cockerel:

 

[bantyman]

Dont worry about the cockeral to much yet Most of mine get alot of white then as they mature they get their color

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Luckily, not too worried about it. If nothing else, it will bring white to Ropo's chicks. I'm not sure. But, he has the best tail (non-existant right now...) but it has soft feathers, no hard-feathering. He has a nice, wide head, nice leg feathering and nice yellow color to his legs, feet and beak. The blue frizzled has the yellowest face I have ever seen.

 

[Fancy Feathers]

Well, I took some pictures of my "future" breeders.

The cockerel (young, too much white, but what the heck! ) He obviously does NOT like being cold...

HEY, that little boy looks familiar!