Mille Cochin Info

[chickenlittle32]

Hey Nancy! I'd like to say he's 3 weeks or so....can't find where I wrote it down lol

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Nancy, I was just checking out both your blog updates. You know I love to read them! That cockerel, "Blue", has some great color! Looks nice nice chest chevrons! Can't believe that basket of little ones has grown up already!!!

 

[BluffCountryShepherdess]

Thanks Gail!

I'm glad that you enjoy my blogs. I enjoy writing them! ;-) More importantly, they are how I document everything. When a ewe is due to lamb, when a chick hatched when eggs are due...It's my most accurate method of record keeping!

Heading for bed in the Bluff Country...

Happy Dreams!

 

[hippichick]

Congrats, Mary. I know how excited you are with these, and they're beautiful. Nancy, off to read a little of your blog...

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I read somewhere on the internet about a person (I believe in Europe) crossing in a white Cochin bantam on their darker MFC birds and the photos they showed were actually of nice offspring. It added type and lightened the darkness of the other parent but kept the pattern. I am thinking I will try that with my darker birds to see what it may change.
I already plan to cross girls like this....

to roos like this.......

But I am wondering if I shouldn't just take them all back to a Mottled roo. I do have one and he would be up for the job but what to do with all these pretty little MFC project roos growing up? I am thinking cross the better marked boy back to his Mom and maybe one of the more buff girls back to her dad. I have 2 new roos from Danny that I will be working in, too.
Oh, the possibilities!

 

[ScratchesWithChickens]

Hello again, cochin enthusiasts!

I will soon be joining all of you in your mille adventures. I set 20 eggs on Friday that I received from Lynne, along with 17 various sebrights. I have a Brinsea Octagon Adv that has a capacity for 24 standard eggs so you can imagine I had to play tetris with those eggs for a while to make 'em all fit! I wouldn't have been able to squeeze one more in there if I had one!

37 eggs??? Whew!

Out of those 20 beautiful cochin eggs,
5 are marked Juan Manuel
4 Sergio
9 Santiago
2 Fernando

Spring has sprung!

-Alex

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Alex, Welcome to the world of MFC, and congrats on getting eggs set from Lynne! It sounds like you're off to a great start. Best of Luck with the hatch. Keep us posted.

Lynne, I know Sergio, Santiago and Fernando . . . which one is Juan Manuel? Don't remember him.

 

[wwmicasa1]

Quote:
Gail,

I retired Vinnie as he was throwing chicks that were waaaay tooooo dark. Also 90% cockerels. I picked Juan Manuel out of the grow-out pen because he is a nice solid red and has pretty good type. He has mottling on his chest but no black. However, I'm breeding him to my darkest pullets & so far I'm very pleased with the results. Also he is a very agressive breeder (showing off for Mom so he doesn't go into the soup pot) & I've yet to find an infertile egg from him. The girls are very taken with him so time will tell.

What most impresses me is that this years crop of cockerels are "much" lighter than last year & less black. I have a MFD cockerel in the same pen with the MFC. I picked up the MFD & a MFC & stretched their wings out. The color is "exactly" the same. In a blind study it would be hard to tell one from the other by wing color. I'm seeing some good progress already this Spring.

 

[joanie_maine]

OK, I need a bit of help here.....

I bred my partridge bantam cochin rooster to my black mottled bantam cochin hens.

The chick I hatched appears to be a mille fleur, although I'm unsure of her final coloring at this point.

When I breed her, where do I go?? Back to the partridge roo? A black mottled roo? or even a black roo to continue the mottling?

I guess I'm asking about the process which mille fleur cochin project folks are using???

Help???

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I like doing several mixes now to see what I will wind up with.
Have you thought about a buff Columbian?
I have eggs in my 'bator from 2 girls here with different roos to see what I will get on this cross.
That is what will be my down fall.....too many choices for breeding and trying to keep up with them all. Lots of record keeping and tons of fun playing with the genetics.
And lots and lots of fluffy cute chicks that I am having a hard time keeping around to grow up. Everybody loves these fluffy chicks! I keep explaining that they are a project and I can't sell them until I know what they really will color up to be.