Odd colored bantam

[OF65]

8 weeks old now. One of the chicks I go from ideal. I think he is about a 1/3 smaller that the others. Slow to feather but look at the coloration!! Is he a Cochin? Seems like he has hard feathers.

 

[WVduckchick]

Looks like a mottled bantam cochin

 

[Gray Farms]

Mottled Cochin cockerel. Color should even out more after the next molt.

 

[MillersFarm]

x2 on the molted cochin, It also looks like something's picking on him and the other chick in the picture, Plucking out all of it's back feathers..

 

[Alexandra33]

Agree, Mottled Cochin bantam. He's very young still, give him time to grow into his feathers.

~Alex

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Mottled Cochin. Looks like he's been picked on?

 

[OF65]

Not sure what is going on with the feather plucking. I have some raunchy roosters , crowing and even trying to mate or is it rape? They are all 8 weeks old. I am fixing to have fryers!!

 

[OF65]

Thank you for your replies. I had never heard of mottled Cochins

 

[WVduckchick]

This is George, my blue mottled. Mottling is a gene that can be carried, but not always show, unless they receive a copy from both parents. So your guy may feather out all dark, but he is at least a carrier.

 

[OF65]

Thank you, I was hoping someone would respond with genetics. I also have a solid black Cochin, except for a white wing feather on each wing. If I keep the mottled which is very black , I have , partridge, gold laced, silver laced, black, white, and buff females. But maybe I should ask what colors or pattern were used to create the mottled?