Pipd's Peeps!

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I'm so excited to see my first hatch grow out, and I 100% know they won't be perfect as I'm breeding some unknowns, so I can only imagine how amazing the feeling you're having to see your hardwork and dedication paying off! I can't wait for my "better" silkies to start grow up so I can start making my breeding choices. Way to go Pipd, this is awesome!

Oooh, I'm excited for you as well! It truly is such an amazing feeling! Now I understand why the long-standing breeders have put up with all the hard work and hiccups and everything else that goes awry along the way!

Hmm... silkied cochin eggies you say!?!?!?! once I get my breeding plans figured out, I might just need to buy some from you next year

Definitely If not from me, then I can at least link you to other farms that have them!

I was pretty proud of myself for deciding to only do silkies, Swedish Flower Hens and some Ermines, but last night driving home from dropping some hatching eggs off with a lady, my hubby starts talking about how cute the bantams are that a local breeder has. So I told him I was trying to be responsible and had decided not to get more bantam eggs (I just have the 2 chicks, I was going to leave it at that) but he wants them, so I said I don't mind getting more, I was just trying to keep my flock and breeding plans reasonable well, I tried, now it seems we'll be adding the Ameraucana bantams and D'uccles to the mix. I mean, not that I mind. So, maybe he won't notice if I slip a few silkied cochins in there

It's soooo hard to focus on just the Cochins!! Sometimes I feel like I'm so wishy-washy about it, like I want to get this other breed to work with or that other variety of Cochins to cross into my silkieds, but I really want to focus on improving what I've got, so I manage to resist... Then I read about how so many people walk into the feed store with no plans for chicks and no room in their coop and they walk out with chicks anyway, and I'm like I would never think to do that, I must have the most powerful iron will of any BYCer out there!

D'Uccles and Ameraucana bantams With silkied Cochins in there as well, you'd have the most adorable flock in the universe!

I know exactly what you've mean. Although I'm very early in my breeding programme(s), so I have yet to make any selections, I understand the feeling. Seeing your parent choices producing very good offspring is sooo rewarding! Can't wait to see what my serama produce!

Eek, excited for you as well! Seramas are one of those breeds that I have wanted forever but never had the chance to get for myself, so I'm definitely living vicariously through watching your flock

Wow, I wouldn't have thought it took 18 months! My guess was around ten months to a year as well. I guess it can be a breed thing as well, my Tsouloufates have the awkward stage way younger, and are fully developed by 7 months old. The serama I haven't had a while, but I think they're generally a really fast maturing breed.

Yup, Cochins are slooooow to mature. The large fowl are even worse about it, they can take more than 2 years! But I think even with them most say that 18 months is long enough to pick your breeders. I'd agree that Seramas seem like they're on the faster side, at least from what I've read, so they'll probably be younger like the Tsouloufates when they're fully developed.

Side note, I so want some of your silkied cochins! Other than possibly a single silkied serama, this is the only silkied bird I'd like to have right now. I'd like to get some cochins in general, I really love the breed. My pens are full, however, so not an option for the foreseeable future

Ugh, if there was a way for me to get hatching eggs to you, I would! I just love seeing people love silkied Cochins!! Cochins in general are pretty great--but I might be a little bit biased.

 

[2ndTink]

Oooh, I'm excited for you as well! It truly is such an amazing feeling! Now I understand why the long-standing breeders have put up with all the hard work and hiccups and everything else that goes awry along the way!




Definitely If not from me, then I can at least link you to other farms that have them

It's soooo hard to focus on just the Cochins!! Sometimes I feel like I'm so wishy-washy about it, like I want to get this other breed to work with or that other variety of Cochins to cross into my silkieds, but I really want to focus on improving what I've got, so I manage to resist... Then I read about how so many people walk into the feed store with no plans for chicks and no room in their coop and they walk out with chicks anyway, and I'm like I would never think to do that, I must have the most powerful iron will of any BYCer out there!

D'Uccles and Ameraucana bantams With silkied Cochins in there as well, you'd have the most adorable flock in the universe!

Ugh, if there was a way for me to get hatching eggs to you, I would! I just love seeing people love silkied Cochins!! Cochins in general are pretty great--but I might be a little bit biaselittle it

It would be an amazingly adorable little flock wouldn't it!?! I sent a photo to the hubby and got nothing in response, I was hoping for a "wow that's cute, I'd like to set some"...

Oh, you mean, you can go in and out of a feed store without impulse buying chicks!?! This is precisely how I ended up with chickens in the first place, and then blossomed to the number I have now we had been talking about getting chickens for a couple years, and just never did. Then one day we went to the feed store and they had chicks, so we left with 5, then scrambled to get a coop we decided 8 would be the perfect number, but after 2 more oops purchases at the feed store through the summer, we had over a dozen. The next year we weren't going to get any more, so we oops bought another 13. I did manage to skip buying chicks the following year, but then last year got 11 more, then hatched 16 silkies so, the silkies have been my only intentional chickens. You can't 100% "oops, there's eggs in the incubator" or can you?

I am determined to not buy more feed store chicks though, I want to support local breeders for my layers from now on. And I'm getting pickier about how they they look, so that is helping.

I had no idea silkied cochins existed until I saw yours! You are a great ambassador for the breed!

 

[2ndTink]

@pipdzipdnreadytogo can you post some rooster pictures? I showed your girls to my hubby and he thinks he likes them better than my silkies he said they are some real pretty chickens, so congratulations! He'd like to see what the roosters look like and how tall / big they are.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

It would be an amazingly adorable little flock wouldn't it!?! I sent a photo to the hubby and got nothing in response, I was hoping for a "wow that's cute, I'd like to set some"...

Oh, you mean, you can go in and out of a feed store without impulse buying chicks!?! This is precisely how I ended up with chickens in the first place, and then blossomed to the number I have now we had been talking about getting chickens for a couple years, and just never did. Then one day we went to the feed store and they had chicks, so we left with 5, then scrambled to get a coop we decided 8 would be the perfect number, but after 2 more oops purchases at the feed store through the summer, we had over a dozen. The next year we weren't going to get any more, so we oops bought another 13. I did manage to skip buying chicks the following year, but then last year got 11 more, then hatched 16 silkies so, the silkies have been my only intentional chickens. You can't 100% "oops, there's eggs in the incubator" or can you?

I am determined to not buy more feed store chicks though, I want to support local breeders for my layers from now on. And I'm getting pickier about how they they look, so that is helping.

Haha, I can! Despite the temptation, I'm pretty strict with myself when it comes to the chickens. Though I don't know how strict I can actually say I am anymore considering I hatched 70 Cochins last year

And I like that perspective, supporting local breeders!

I had no idea silkied cochins existed until I saw yours! You are a great ambassador for the breed!

Aww, thank you! I try! I just really love them a lot, and for a long time I was afraid they were going the way of the silkied Ameraucana, practically extinct at this point. I'm hoping to see silkied Cochins added as a variety in the standard some day, like how frizzled Cochins are listed as a kind of subset regardless of color, so that even more people might take an interest in them. But mostly I just really love fuzzy feathering and Cochin bantams in general, so the variety really endears itself to me all around

@pipdzipdnreadytogo can you post some rooster pictures? I showed your girls to my hubby and he thinks he likes them better than my silkies he said they are some real pretty chickens, so congratulations! He'd like to see what the roosters look like and how tall / big they are.

I like them more than Silkies as well, but that's definitely personal preference--I don't like overly large crests on my chickens, and I find I like the Cochins' temperaments a bit more, sassy though the girls can be. Size-wise, the Cochin boys are a bit smaller and closer to the ground than Silkie boys, but definitely bigger than some other bantam roosters like the d'Uccles you mentioned, if you've ever seen those in person.

I can definitely share pictures! Here's Wyatt:

I don't know if this helps much with gauging size, but this was Gus standing on my knee:

These boys are cockerels, so not filled in all the way, but these are the two sons out of Wyatt that I'm keeping:

 

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Oooh, I'm excited for you as well! It truly is such an amazing feeling! Now I understand why the long-standing breeders have put up with all the hard work and hiccups and everything else that goes awry along the way!




Definitely If not from me, then I can at least link you to other farms that have them!




It's soooo hard to focus on just the Cochins!! Sometimes I feel like I'm so wishy-washy about it, like I want to get this other breed to work with or that other variety of Cochins to cross into my silkieds, but I really want to focus on improving what I've got, so I manage to resist... Then I read about how so many people walk into the feed store with no plans for chicks and no room in their coop and they walk out with chicks anyway, and I'm like I would never think to do that, I must have the most powerful iron will of any BYCer out there!

D'Uccles and Ameraucana bantams With silkied Cochins in there as well, you'd have the most adorable flock in the universe!




Eek, excited for you as well! Seramas are one of those breeds that I have wanted forever but never had the chance to get for myself, so I'm definitely living vicariously through watching your flock




Yup, Cochins are slooooow to mature. The large fowl are even worse about it, they can take more than 2 years! But I think even with them most say that 18 months is long enough to pick your breeders. I'd agree that Seramas seem like they're on the faster side, at least from what I've read, so they'll probably be younger like the Tsouloufates when they're fully developed.




Ugh, if there was a way for me to get hatching eggs to you, I would! I just love seeing people love silkied Cochins!! Cochins in general are pretty great--but I might be a little bit biased.

Hope my small serama flock has been entertaining, there's definitely more to come from these crazy birds! Can't imagine how long it takes a LF cochin to grow, those things are massive in every sense of the way, they sound like aseel males development-wise. If you could get the eggs to me, and I had the space, I wouldn't dare pass up on the offer of some silkied cochin eggs of yours. Maybe even giving Cruella a forever husband; although she's slightly resentful towards silkied bird, I think. Something about her sister and their first ever cockerel both being silkied. As an unbiased source, I can assure you, cochins are very much great!

 

[fluffycrow]

@pipdzipdnreadytogo can you post some rooster pictures? I showed your girls to my hubby and he thinks he likes them better than my silkies he said they are some real pretty chickens, so congratulations! He'd like to see what the roosters look like and how tall / big they are.

Do I smell another breed being considered?

 

[fluffycrow]

Haha, I can! Despite the temptation, I'm pretty strict with myself when it comes to the chickens. Though I don't know how strict I can actually say I am anymore considering I hatched 70 Cochins last year

And I like that perspective, supporting local breeders!




Aww, thank you! I try! I just really love them a lot, and for a long time I was afraid they were going the way of the silkied Ameraucana, practically extinct at this point. I'm hoping to see silkied Cochins added as a variety in the standard some day, like how frizzled Cochins are listed as a kind of subset regardless of color, so that even more people might take an interest in them. But mostly I just really love fuzzy feathering and Cochin bantams in general, so the variety really endears itself to me all around




I like them more than Silkies as well, but that's definitely personal preference--I don't like overly large crests on my chickens, and I find I like the Cochins' temperaments a bit more, sassy though the girls can be. Size-wise, the Cochin boys are a bit smaller and closer to the ground than Silkie boys, but definitely bigger than some other bantam roosters like the d'Uccles you mentioned, if you've ever seen those in person.

I can definitely share pictures! Here's Wyatt:

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I don't know if this helps much with gauging size, but this was Gus standing on my knee:

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These boys are cockerels, so not filled in all the way, but these are the two sons out of Wyatt that I'm keeping:

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Ugh, they're amazing. No

. Can't have more boys. If they ever made salon products for chickens, they would definitely have to contact you! Their hair is so luscious!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

If they ever made salon products for chickens, they would definitely have to contact you! Their hair is so luscious!

Heck, Birch might already be in talks with such a company, he already always looks like he styles the feathers on either side of his neck

 

[fluffycrow]

Heck, Birch might already be in talks with such a company, he already always looks like he styles the feathers on either side of his neck

He's in a constant state of "my hair is blowing in the wind"

 

[2ndTink]

Haha, I can! Despite the temptation, I'm pretty strict with myself when it comes to the chickens. Though I don't know how strict I can actually say I am anymore considering I hatched 70 Cochins last year

And I like that perspective, supporting local breeders!




Aww, thank you! I try! I just really love them a lot, and for a long time I was afraid they were going the way of the silkied Ameraucana, practically extinct at this point. I'm hoping to see silkied Cochins added as a variety in the standard some day, like how frizzled Cochins are listed as a kind of subset regardless of color, so that even more people might take an interest in them. But mostly I just really love fuzzy feathering and Cochin bantams in general, so the variety really endears itself to me all around




I like them more than Silkies as well, but that's definitely personal preference--I don't like overly large crests on my chickens, and I find I like the Cochins' temperaments a bit more, sassy though the girls can be. Size-wise, the Cochin boys are a bit smaller and closer to the ground than Silkie boys, but definitely bigger than some other bantam roosters like the d'Uccles you mentioned, if you've ever seen those in person.

I can definitely share pictures! Here's Wyatt:

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I don't know if this helps much with gauging size, but this was Gus standing on my knee:

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These boys are cockerels, so not filled in all the way, but these are the two sons out of Wyatt that I'm keeping:

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They are SO gorgeous! He really likes them!

I don't like the huge crests, I like a nice little round poof were they can still see, so obviously my likes don't align with what's winning at shows.

Wait, silkied Ameraucanas!?!