Mille Cochin Info

[ChickcrazyCharlie]

This is the picture I should have posted.

 

[ChickcrazyCharlie]

Erin, these are from your eggs. Hatched on 4-22-11.

I think the first one is the only cockerel. There is one more pullet. Did not get a picture, she is shaping up like the others. She looks similar to the pullet in the second picture, not as much white.

Charlie

 

[Msbear]

Charlie, boy.. you did get some dark ones. I had some dark hatches but, most were 50/50 or better.

I would keep at least one of those girls. They will have fabulous type and will be black mottled but leaking gold... whichever shows better type, keep. If you put them to a male that is well marked like that one from Nadine that is pecking the ground, you will get some dynamite chicks. He is showing some awesome color and she will have great type and plenty of mottling. That golden laced looking one by the way is an exact remake of a hen I hatched from Lynne a few years ago. We had a long conversation about her some... hundred pages ago. Well, the outcome was this girl.. her daughter.

I have quite a few awesome girls from her this year and a handful of boys. Actually, I think that cockerel you hatched is from her. I can tell by the black edging on the feathers and the extremely dark red in his tail and the tips of his wings. I can see his "partridgey" look coming out. He probably won't be as typey as the others as his mother was an F1 outcross for type. He has another dose so he will be better than her. I would definitely cull that silver columbian looking boy. He's not going to help the situation at all but, that little golden laced looking hen is showing nice type already and I think could benefit.. doesn't hurt to try. If she doesn't, then cull her. Some have had good experiences with those hens and others have had no luck.

I would suggest you contact some breeders later this summer and keep your eyes open for a nicely colored and nicely typed pair to put with this bunch. Hatching eggs are a gamble and you can never be positive of anything.. especially with MFC.

 

[DixieChickie]

Just wanted to update what my little cockerel is looking like a week and half later....He's just now getting his neck and head feathers in....and they're covered with little white tips and cheverons....he's also lost quite a bit of the completely white feathers on his body and chest, and has white tips and cheverons coming in there too. I'll try to get some good pics this evening of him in the grass, to see type.

His neck, he was stretching way down to watch his girls, who were at my feet.

Sitting in my hand...

He is in the background in this pic...In the cage inside of my coop

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Beautiful!

See, ones like that make me drool. For some reason I just absolutely love to watch them mature. My dark ones will slowly get more white tips but the whitest colored ones are simply fascinating to watch grow up. I get the best surprises from them!

I have a few like that right now and am trying hard not to look at them every day but it is so hard. That color just draws me. I have to focus on type and that coloring blinds my senses!

Good luck with him! I hope he grows up to be something to help you considerably!

 

[DixieChickie]

Thanks Nadine. I noticed this morning that my partridge colored pullet has a bunch of whit tipped feather coming in, they're not in enough to see if cheverons are present. It's really neat to watch them change.

 

[Msbear]

If any of you are close enough to make it to my place for The Maryland Poultry Swap & Farmers Market on June 18th, I'll be offering a nice pair from my grow out pen in the silent auction. The proceeds go to support the MD. State Poultry Fancier's Association. Here's our website http://mdpoultryswap.blogspot.com/

Im located in Sharpsburg, MD.. about an hour and a half NW from Washington DC. The swap will be pretty good. We have quite a few show breeders coming from good distances... some even camping out the night before. We'll even have buyers camping out anxious for first dibs on the goodies.

Here's THE LIST from the vendors so far... hearing about more stuff each day
black rosecombs
welsummers and hatching eggs
delawares and hatching eggs
royal palm turkey poults
jumbo coturnix quail chicks and hatching eggs
bantam cochins
white leghorn pullets
cart coop
yard tractor coop
silkie chicks (exhibition lines)
standard buff leghorns (exhibition lines)
Polish (exhibition lines)
dutch (exhibition lines)
australorp chicks
1-2 mottled Java roo chick(s)
EE roo
1-2 white (hatchery) Silkie
More silkies from breeder in southern MD
wire cages for rabbits or bantams
Red Bourbon Turkey a
rhode island red
More silkies and polish!
8 Large Fowl Partridge Wyandotte chicks from Mr.Urch that are for sale.
List of what I will have is:
Lemon Blue Cochins Large Fowl (LF)
Dominique LF
Blue wheaten Marans LF
New Hampshire Reds LF
Blue Wyandottes LF
Partridge Wyandottes LF
Guineas mix of colors(White, Pied,Pearl,Lav,Royal Purple)
Turkeys ~ Blue Slate (few), Silver Penciled Palms, Burbon Reds,
Black Spanish,Narragansett
Citron Hamburg Bantams (few)
Buff Wyandotte (1) LF
May have SLW (1) LF
Extra roosters:
Blue Wheaten Marans(Davis line)
1~ Wheaten Marans (Cree line)
May have 1 extra roo from my AM/EE/OEL pen.
6 tray hatcher GQF
call ducklings and/or eggs (blue fawn pied and butterscotch)
English riding tack, some plants (cottage style type stuff, lambs ears & daisies & the like)
Runner Ducklings both crested and non-crested.
large fowl blue/black/splash Cochins
large fowl blue/black/splash Orpingtons
LF buff cochins (show quality)
black cochin bantams (show quality)
local honey products
horse tack
old crocks
wire cages (used for rabbits)
farm fresh eating eggs
Silkies, from chicks up to 4-6 weeks old in several colors
ShowGirls
heritage rhode island reds (the dark reds)
Black Australorp
Buff Orpingtons
Easter Eggers (blue/green egg layers)
Bantam black cochin
Light Brahma
Sulkie (the cutest little Silkie x Sultan babies) & some OEGB
Chick waterers & large waterers
iris and daylillies
strawberry plants, grapevines
MORE SILKIES
Rhode Island Red pullets
white rock pullets
white crested b/b/s polish straight run.
naked necks 4 hens and 1 roo that are 9 months old
a few extra roos.
welsummer chicks
guinea keets
call ducks, mixed ducks
geese
red and golden pheasant
mixed turkey poults (royal palm and easterns)
‎2 Nigerian Dwarf (2 month old boys) and 2 or 3 Mini Nubian does
rabbits, used rabbit cages and a few used aquariums
guinea pigs
muscovy ducks
two started pairs of Davis blue wheaten Marans
nesting boxes
wooden wine boxes
plywood brooder with lid
hoop house tractor coops
Wheaten Ameraucana, Blue Marans,
Sumatra, Coronation Sussex,
Exchequer Leghorn, White Phoenix,
Mottled d'Uccle, Sebastopol Geese
AND PEAFOWL yearlings whom must be pre ordered; cameo, cameo pied, india blue pied, white, bronze and more. Contact me for more info.
blue wyandottes
dark brahmas
excellent quality welsummer started birds
light brahmas
black tailed white japanese bantams
white sebastapol geese
antique farm stuff and other country vintage items.

and you can "like" us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maryland-Poultry-Swap-Farmers-Market/131707836905457

 

[DixieChickie]

Thanks Nadine. I noticed this morning that my partridge colored pullet has a bunch of whit tipped feather coming in, they're not in enough to see if cheverons are present. It's really neat to watch them change.

 

[DixieChickie]

Sorry for double post...phone told me it didn't send. Lol

 

[mjgigax]

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I just love them at this age, so cute!!!!! -other breeds look like awkward teenagers, but maybe I am biased.