Mille Fleur Cochin cockerel update pics

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Nice rooster!

If I remember correctly, Sandhill has mille fluer leghorn large fowl. Speckled sussex are like a mahogany version of millie fluer. If you wanted mille fluer brahmas in LF, you could start by crossing a mille fluer cochin with buff brahmas(buff columbian) then just select the birds with best color and type over time, maybe breed a LF mottled cochin into them in time to bring out the mottling more, its just a thought.

 

[amazondoc]

Onthespot, we ought to keep in touch. I now have four mille fleur bantam cochins, three from bantyman, and I am really enjoying them. We ought to keep comparing how our birds develop!

 

[onthespot]

My mottleds that are in with the mille fleur cockerel are just starting to lay. I got their first egg yesterday evening, and this morning there were two. They are light brown and about half the size of my silkie eggs. I'm not going to try to even check fertility until the eggs get bigger. The roo baby is just starting to tackle the ladies, doesn't look like he's got it quite right. I feed the extra eggs to the poodles and parrot finches.

 

[horsechick]

Hi all,
Does anyone had eggs or chick of these yet?
Located in ohio.
Thanks for any info,
Angela

 

[onthespot]

not yet. I could put some under the next thing that goes broody...

 

[CochinLover]

Does anyone know where i can find mille Fluer cochins? other than stealing pattys in the middle of the night. ( jk ) i cannot have roos so no stealing but ill pretend in my mind though cause hes gorgeous!! Im so jealous of peps with cochin roos cause i think their the sweetest birds.

 

[amazondoc]

I just put my first bantam mille fleur cochin eggs in the bator yesterday. Yippee! HOWEVER -- I have no idea whether these are even fertile. Stay Tuned!

Oh, speaking of eggs -- I have a question for you wise folks. I do also have two mottled bantam cochins -- sex still to be announced. Is it possible to tell mottled x mf chicks apart from mf chicks, as babies? I currently have the mottles separated from the mfs, but I'm considering putting them together in the future....

 

[onthespot]

my mottle x mille fleur chicks look exactly the same as mottled chicks looked at the same age. They are not mottled yet, but they are plain jane tuxedo looking, with mixed pigment on their beaks and feet. There is one that has blondish hackle feathers, but I am not assuming that to be a mille trait, could be some birchen coming through from previous generations. Only one out of a dozen had the lighter hackles. I had one like that hatch from the original mottled eggs I bought off of eggbid too. This is the only photo I have of him. I gave him away the next day.

 

[thecochincoop]

the mottled chicks will start out looking like blacks with a bit more white. my mille fleur cochin chick was a brown color as a chick with a brown beak

 

[mjgigax]

Quote:
There is a Mille Fleur Cochin thread that several breeders post on - Fattie and Wimsica (sp?) are two breeders that have beautiful Milles.