My blue cochin hen (pic)

[ncgnance]

They are Both absolutely beautiful. I love black chickens and blue chickens, any kind of chickens. I have cochin eggs (standard) in the bator now. They're supposed to be black and blue. The wait is killing me...nine days to go....

 

[Bo Garrett]

The blue color is spot on!! This is some of the nicest blue coloring I have seen in large cochins. She does need some type work though. She needs softer tail feathers, with a lower tail carriage much like that of the large black male pictured by chickenlady. She also needs a more pronouced cushion on her back even more so than the black male. I would breed her to a very nice black male like chickenlady's and work from there, culling very hard all of those with stiff, high carried tails. You have the color now just work towards these other traits and you'll have yourself some hard to beat blue cochins.


Bo