Need help on my beautiful chickens breed!!

[Rhodebar Lover]

I think you have a Lavender Cochin Bantam with leakage and two Black Cochin Bantam hens. I will say, their body type is a bit odd for Cochins... @Overo Mare, what do you think? Maybe mixes?

 

[Painted Calls]

I think you have a Lavender Cochin Bantam with leakage and two Black Cochin Bantam hens. I will say, their body type is a bit odd for Cochins... @Overo Mare, what do you think? Maybe mixes?

The hens are either mixed somewhere or very poorly bred.

 

[thekittenchicken]

Thanks for your replies, everyone! but..is leakage a bad thing?isn't it just when roosters have more colour? Also, will the chicks of these chickens be grey when they're older or black? I'm not really too bothered about the colour of my rooster's feathers but I am interested in knowing what leakage is. Also is having hens that weren't bred very well a bad thing for their health or anything or only for the way they look????

 

[thekittenchicken]

also, people have said the hens might be half bantams half austrolops because they are quite large for bantams and they are very friendly and attached to their owners. they follow us around the garden!do you think they could be I know it really doesn't matter but I'm interested in their ancestory now.

 

[thekittenchicken]

They are cochins, but I don't think that are 100% pure. I think they might be mixed with something else.

What do you think they could be mixed with?

 

[HappyClucker7]

I think you have a Lavender Cochin Bantam with leakage and two Black Cochin Bantam hens. I will say, their body type is a bit odd for Cochins... @Overo Mare, what do you think? Maybe mixes?

The hens are either mixed somewhere or very poorly bred.

I knew they looked off! Glad I'm not the only one who thinks so.

 

[HappyClucker7]

Thanks for your replies, everyone! but..is leakage a bad thing?isn't it just when roosters have more colour? Also, will the chicks of these chickens be grey when they're older or black? I'm not really too bothered about the colour of my rooster's feathers but I am interested in knowing what leakage is. Also is having hens that weren't bred very well a bad thing for their health or anything or only for the way they look????

Leakage is not a bad thing on terms of health. It just means that he is not up to the standard of perfection, and would not do well in a show.

 

[HappyClucker7]

What do you think they could be mixed with?

Honestly, I'm not 100% sure. Definitely something wit a straight tail. Australorp could be a possibility.

 

[cmom]

Thanks for your replies, everyone! but..is leakage a bad thing?isn't it just when roosters have more colour? Also, will the chicks of these chickens be grey when they're older or black? I'm not really too bothered about the colour of my rooster's feathers but I am interested in knowing what leakage is. Also is having hens that weren't bred very well a bad thing for their health or anything or only for the way they look????

Leakage is not a bad thing on terms of health. It just means that he is not up to the standard of perfection, and would not do well in a show.

I agree. Good luck...