Mille Cochin Info

[ki4got]

Time for some chick pics!

This next one is what most of my pics look like….Mike I need some lessons! We are 3 short days away from the black Friday sales, where to you go to get your cameras? Best Buy?

got mine off hsn.com

canon rebel T3 absolutely love it. I've had it just over a year now.

a friend's a pro photographer, she recommended it to me, and it's pretty simple to use. I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of what it's capable of.

 

[Fowl Menagerie]

Help! I have seven or eight mille fleur(calico) bantam cochins to rehome. They are all this years hatch and beautiful birds. They are free to anyone who is close enough to pick them up. I live in zip code 45346. I have way to many roosters to keep. My ratio this year was about three roos to one hen. PM me if interested and we will set something up. Thanks

 

[Reyvaughn]

Finally! Pics! I put a 3rd light in the shed, so I got pics while I was out there doing that and chores.
The shed is almost done. Almost...


Left side from the front. The 2x4's and windows were supposed to go in the south facing wall before it got cold. Ooops.
There are 2 totes under the first set of cages holding a lot of dishes, waters, feeders, the new vents (ooops again), meds that don't freeze, ect. My cages are under the 2nd one.


Right side - the south facing wall. Outdoor cats' feeder & waterer, cat/chicken carriers and misc stuff under these cages.
The cans are my chicken feed. There is grit and oyster shell in the buckets. Look! The timer for the lights is on the wall, too! It's working. I collected 5 eggs today!


Down the aisle. Three pens on the right (5x5, 4.5x5, 3.5x5) and 2 on the left (both are 6.5x5). The aisle needs finished (that 1' open section and the 5' solid plywood bottom will be pine tongue and groove and enclosed so I can use the aisle for a pen, too. It's 4'4"x13" and I am going to squeeze my 19 Ameraucanas in there. They are housed in a smaller area now... I just hope they don't realize they can get over the walls into the other pens. If so, they will go back out to the big 10x10 shed. I was trying to get everyone consolidated into one building for winter. Other than the geese and turkeys, I think I may be able to pull it off!


View from the back in the aisle out to the front of the shed. I wish I had used the pine tongue and groove on both sides now.

I did sweep it, but the birds made a mess already. I still have some molting and they really enjoyed dust bathing in the new shavings. And the dust! I didn't get the new vents in in time so the back window is cracked and I will have to be very vigilante on the condition of the pens now. I bought myself a new shop vac just for the shed for the winter to help with cleaning pens and clean up the dust.



These are the 2 cockerels I still have left from my hatching this year. Still recovering for the tail eater/s.


I love looking at these guys. These are my BC looking MFCs from Byron (BC x MFC) and Bridgette (BC x MFC?). Yeah, they are brothers and sisters. Yes, I am going to hatch out babies from them once I make my final cut. I am still waiting on tails to regrow here, too.


I am hoping Erin (MsBear) sees this one. My first official chocolate MFC pen. The MFCs are Millie and Mildred - my soon to be 4yr old girls I first got from Erin in June 2010. They still lay every other day in the "on" season. Considering they didn't start laying until they were a year old and they are broody 3 months a year, they better still be laying! The girls' first chocolate MFC daughter from this year is in the background of the picture in a separate pen.

More pics to come tomorrow the camera was being stupid and only these pics came out clear. I took over 50 pics tonight. Oh well. Camera is reset and ready to go again tomorrow!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Help! I have seven or eight mille fleur(calico) bantam cochins to rehome. They are all this years hatch and beautiful birds. They are free to anyone who is close enough to pick them up. I live in zip code 45346. I have way to many roosters to keep. My ratio this year was about three roos to one hen. PM me if interested and we will set something up. Thanks

You should post pics and also on the Buy Sell Trade section of BYC. Good luck!

 

[Fancy Feathers]

 

[County Boy]

Brought these guys back in the house this past week while the weasel was around and just haven't had time to move them back out.
Floyd-



Mint-


Spearmint-

 

[wwmicasa1]

Brought these guys back in the house this past week while the weasel was around and just haven't had time to move them back out.
Floyd-



Mint-


Spearmint-

Oh, Mike~! They are so adorable. Is Spearmint a cockerel?

 

[County Boy]

Oh, Mike~! They are so adorable. Is Spearmint a cockerel?

No, pullet. It wouldn't bother be now if she was a cockerel after losing Rastas but I guess it may be better she is a pullet. That just gives me more eggs to hatch.

 

[wwmicasa1]

No, pullet. It wouldn't bother be now if she was a cockerel after losing Rastas but I guess it may be better she is a pullet. That just gives me more eggs to hatch.

Whatever, she is lovely. What a great color~!

 

[mjgigax]

Brought these guys back in the house this past week while the weasel was around and just haven't had time to move them back out.
Floyd-



Mint-


Spearmint-

Are they Peppermint's babies?