Mille Cochin Info

[FleurSlkie]

Thanks for the information Mjgigax and Keep us posted on your improvements in this line of yours. Beautymous indeed!

 

[Msbear]

As for the sex linked question, I am unsure of the proper answer but, I do know that the males are a darker, richer red and females have a more buff background color. So, when they start to feather out and the deep reds come in like in ChrisF's chick, you know right away it's a boy. Just like when you hatch a wheaten chick and the very first black feathers appear...boy. And, that is true with my wheaten rosecombs. The boys will get that deeper coloring in fairly early on.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Wow, I had to really search for this thread. It was back on page 7!

I wanted to report that I had 2 chicks hatch out a few days ago from crossing granddaughters back to grandfather. (Great granddaughters were not laying at that time.)

I had a yellow chick hatch and a black chick to hatch out. I have tagged them to watch how they grow up plus more of the eggs developing in the bator and this time a few are from great granddaughters.

My foundation MF/buff Columbian roo, Fred.

Here is Speckles, one of several that look like this in the pen with Fred.

I got sort of bored waiting for the others to grow up enough to put into breeding or set eggs from so I thought I would try that breeding.


I had been crossing daughters from Xavier.......

back to Schmoozle......and the other way around, too.

I do have girls in with these boys now but the eggs are much too small to hatch out. I find the chicks just are not as good from pullet eggs and I want my lines to be strong. I will probably set a few eggs from these boys and girls in Sept and then around Oct 1st I will shut down my bators. Maybe by Jan. I will know what direction I need to go again.

I still am not as pleased with my pullets as I am from all those dang blasted roos though.

 

[SierraView]

Don't want this dropping to page 7 again

I hatched a few eggs last year... Well more then a few and this cockerel was a keeper. I fell in love with him he's so sweet.

This year he's in a pen with a mottle hen and a buff hen. Here's a chick from the buff hen.

The buff hen is broody now with 2 of her own eggs. Chicks from the mottle hen are all dark chicks. Can't wait to see how these chickies turn out.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Cute little bugger! Your roo should sure looks like a sweetie!
I have a few buff Columbian looking hens that will probably be here for a long time. They carry some decent type but I can't get the dark neck feathers bred out of the offspring so I seldom use them.

And I know we can't help keeping those roos that are so sweet! Why do they have to be so great in the sweetness dept.? I find I am unable to put those really super sweet boys in the freezer and they are hanging out around the farm all the time until someone realizes they are as great as what they have convinced me they are. Ugh!

I don't need all of these but gosh, I like them sooo much! I figure I will be 90 years old and have tons of almost MFC!

I did sell a few Sizzles roos yesterday out of a grow up pen (Ha! Some pen! The pullets are laying and some are broody!). So now I can sort of get some breeding going as I have 3 MFC roos in there and I can rearrange some pullets around to get some older girls in the mix. If I decide I want them to hatch any eggs when they go broody then at least I may have a shot at more MFC but I would not know exactly what roo and hen produced it. I have never been one to use multiple roos in a pen and usually have only a few girls with certain characteristics with a roo that should work together to produce nice offspring.

I guess I need to take some photos of others growing up. So many birds, so little time.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Everyone must be powerful busy! This was on page 5 again. It is too hot to do much in the middle of the day so I come and wander around BYC. Cheaper than driving to the mall and spending money....well, sometimes!

I have a few roos and pullets I am selling. Most look like these below. They are 4-6 mths old.
Local folks do not know what they are but usually like to buy them in pairs and trios and then later show me photos of the chicks. They are always excited and fascinated by how pretty the babies hatch out and grow up. The genetics are there, I just try to sell them something that I think will please them later with the outcome of breeding.

Almost all the hens I have are dark that I am selling. Some have really good type and those stay but the dark ones will have a lot of white throughout the black but very little red. I am just trying to keep as much type as possible before going ahead with much more breeding.
I should get more photos but they hate being photographed or I am just a horrid photographer. Probably the latter.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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And just when I was getting used to calling you Nadine!!

 

[aurorarose25]

anybody have any calico roos they want to get rid of?

 

[Chooklet]

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Not yet - my calico project is still young. I do have a number of cockerals (6-9 months old) available for mille projects though. Is anyone else in Northern California working on either mille or calico projects? Would love to find other locals to diversify the gene pool. Here are a few of my "culls" (which is an awful way to refer to these friendly little guys!)

I really wish I could keep them all. The last two are from a group of about 5 boys that I refer to as the "bukka bukka" boys, because they run around as a pack calling "bukka bukka bukka bukka bukka" at any hen who can't get out of the way fast enough! The first is a few months older, and watches the bukka bukka boys with a look that I anthropomorphize as sheer disdain.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Awwww! You can still call me Nadine! Just don't call me late for supper!