MOTTLED COCHIN THREAD~!

[maidenwolfx80]

Hi all I have a question. I have been given a friends project an need to know which ones to keep. The breeding group is a white bantam cochin roo, a white hen who has a very faint splash her or there not many, a lighter blue mottled and a darker blue mottled.There are a few 4 month old birds as well blue mottled and a couple black mottled. If I were to just keep the first 4 I mentioned that are the breeding group how will the chicks come out.? Will I get black mottled from the white roo over blue mottled? Should I keep a black mottled instead of the white hen? I tried uploading pics but my pc is talking back, will try later. Opinions breeders?

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Depends on what you would like to make from it all. But in truth, I do not go for color as much as type. I don't care what color a bird is, I like to see a nice round, fluffy Cochin.

 

[Scifisarah]

Hi all I have a question. I have been given a friends project an need to know which ones to keep. The breeding group is a white bantam cochin roo, a white hen who has a very faint splash her or there not many, a lighter blue mottled and a darker blue mottled.There are a few 4 month old birds as well blue mottled and a couple black mottled. If I were to just keep the first 4 I mentioned that are the breeding group how will the chicks come out.? Will I get black mottled from the white roo over blue mottled? Should I keep a black mottled instead of the white hen? I tried uploading pics but my pc is talking back, will try later. Opinions breeders?

Like Amy said, it all depends on what you plan on doing with their offspring. If you are looking to possibly show or sell their offspring as purebred color chickens, I would separate the whites out from the mottled ones. You can keep black mottled, blue mottled and splash (they will be mottled as well, but you can't really see the mottling on splash except when they are juveniles) in one pen, and then either keep the whites in a separate pen, or rehome them. That is what I would do anyway - some people don't seem to mind mixing colors, but they would just be pretty yard birds/pets at that point.

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Thank you both. That is what I needed to know. So the white roo should go with the white hen to her new home and I should keep a black or blue mottled cockerel. I was thinking something like that, I was afraid that the white roo would possibly dilute the blue in the offspring. I could do a black mottled cockerel with the blue mottled girls and get both blue and black and splash then. Makes better sense actually. I love the fluffy cochin too and like the blue and black mottled. I am breeding to sell for now and want to keep pretty colors.


This is a black mottled pullet I was thinking of keeping to breed with the white roo.

blue mottled boy.

 

[Scifisarah]

Thank you both. That is what I needed to know. So the white roo should go with the white hen to her new home and I should keep a black or blue mottled cockerel. I was thinking something like that, I was afraid that the white roo would possibly dilute the blue in the offspring. I could do a black mottled cockerel with the blue mottled girls and get both blue and black and splash then. Makes better sense actually. I love the fluffy cochin too and like the blue and black mottled. I am breeding to sell for now and want to keep pretty colors.


This is a black mottled pullet I was thinking of keeping to breed with the white roo.

blue mottled boy.

 

[maidenwolfx80]

This is the other blue.
I must decide now and go out and figure out who is boy and who is girl so I can pick a good mottled.
Thank you all for your help. There is so much to consider and I want to get all the info I can and do this right.
If I keep the 2 blue mottled and a black mottled pullet and keep a blue mottled cockerel I will get blue mottled, black mottled and some splash, correct?

 

[Scifisarah]

Yep, if you breed blue x blue 25% of them will be splash, 25% black and 50% blue. If some of them are young, I would hold onto them for a while and let them finish growing. It'll be easier to make a choice of which to keep when you can see how they fill in. Seems like they all have pretty small combs to be 4 month old cockerels though. Mine are all very obvious by the time they turn 4 months, but I guess it depends on what breeding line they are from. You might just be lucky and have all pullets on your hands. I'd guess it wouldn't be too much trouble finding a nice mottled cockerel this time of year though. If you do get rid of any of the mottled I saw in your photos, it would be the one you had labeled "blue mottled boy". I noticed his feet are not yellow like a cochin is supposed to be, and he looks like he might be a cochin mix, instead of purebred by the shape of his body and head.

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Thank you very much for your help on this. I do appreciate all the advice. I may be back with more questions.

 

[wwmicasa1]

Amy, this is for you~! Ebony out of your eggs Christmas 2011.

Ebony

 

[County Boy]

Gorgeous Lynne!!