Self-Blue Cochin Bantams

[austinhart123]

theyre looking beautiful, when will you have lavenders or splits for sale, i have some now, about the same quality as your origionals, i have the nice blacks to breed them to, but id much rather get started where you are, id be willing to pay the price too

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

Wonderful progress, Tom. Come on Spring!

 

[cochinman2005]

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Austin,
Not sure really when/what I'll have for sale. If all goes according to plan I'd have some Self-Blues available in the fall. I am hoping to show a decent group of cockerels and pullets at the Crossroads show. However, if I am not happy with the f4's I will hold off and go back to Blacks for an f5 split and then f6 Self-Blues. We'll see.

Tom

 

[austinhart123]

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Austin,
Not sure really when/what I'll have for sale. If all goes according to plan I'd have some Self-Blues available in the fall. I am hoping to show a decent group of cockerels and pullets at the Crossroads show. However, if I am not happy with the f4's I will hold off and go back to Blacks for an f5 split and then f6 Self-Blues. We'll see.

Tom

alright, ill keep your contact info for fall

 

[mjgigax]

Thank You for the updates. These will be beautiful birds.
I saw the Lavender/Split-blue Silkies at the APA show in Shawnee, OK. There sure were alot of beautiful Silkies but I love Cochins.

 

[Chickielady]

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are you for real ???????????????

 

[Chickielady]

I have these giant Lemon Blue Cochins just bought and so fallen in love with...and it has been an education learning to refit the coops for these big heavy birds, and the feathery feet and the mud....but in spring, we will be on the mark !

So I am watching what happens here on the thread...and LOVE these big slow lovable birds...

 

[Chickielady]

Forgot a recent pic of the roo.
Lemon blue, and I had to go to night school for a year to figure out Blue Copper...HA!

 

[cochinman2005]

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Again, not to rain on anyone's parade, but I highly doubt those are large fowl Lemon Blue Cochins. My guess is that they are Buff X Blue crosses. Which are not genetically Lemon Blue. Lemon Blue is a recognized pattern described in the Standards. You'd need a Large Brown Red Cochin to make Large Lemon Blues, and anything I've seen that resembles a large Brown Red Cochin in a Buff X Black Cross. If someone sold these birds to you as Lemon Blues they are incorrect.

And....my intent behind starting this thread was to have one specifically for Self-Blues. There is a separate 304 page and counting Cochin Thread.

 

[Chickielady]

These birds are LF, they are Ginormous, and produce the BBr & S...They are seriously huge, no bantams here.
I bought them from Rare Feathers Farm, she hatched and raised and sold them for many years until the roo got frostbite and she could not longer show him.
But I will take my posts elsewhere, Thanks
Oh and RFF did say that these 3 do produce a buff baby every so often...well, thank anyway