Standard Cochins...Help Please!!

[speckledhen]

Hi, Bec, cant comment much on your Cochin, but I have seen the show stock ones. Can you say GARGANTUAN?! Wow, they are huge. I'm looking at your RIR pullet and that doesn't look like a RIR at all to me, more like a New Hampshire, however what color are her legs? They dont appear yellow.

 

[Kanchii]

If he's from a hatchery, and the birds you saw were show stock, he won't get nearly the size of him. I took my hatchery stock standard cochin hen to a big show and I was shocked to see that the other hens were SO much bigger than her, it was very very embarrassing.

Standard chickens from hatcheries almost never get the full size they are supposed to for show

Though I have to say he doesn't have very good type to show anyway, besides being small, and he looks like he has some rustyness (brown) on him.

 

[Bec]

I am not planning on showing him or breeding him, he is just here purely for me to love. He still has some baby coloring on him, those feathers were lighter, but are growing out. The nice dark red ones are coming in nicely. He will never see a show. My flock aren't show birds at all.. The onpen is all Delaware Blue hens, the other pen is just everyone else...Boss is their rooster.
The RIR hatched out of my son's classroom. She came from the University of Delaware..they only have..RIR, white leghorns, wc black polish, EE's, Delaware Blue hens and Barred rocks. Her legs aren't yellow at all come to think about it...

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[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Could be that he was also a Giant Cochin. I have two Giants and they are bigger then my hens already and they are younger. JUST HUGE and SO very gentle too

I love him! He came from quality stock so he will go to the fair next year! Now he is only nine weeks old but already BIG. And his feet feathers are just beautiful!

 

[speckledhen]

The RIR hatched out of my son's classroom. She came from the University of Delaware..they only have..RIR, white leghorns, wc black polish, EE's, Delaware Blue hens and Barred rocks. Her legs aren't yellow at all come to think about it... .

Interesting, a mystery! She must be a cross of some sort or a recessive gene popped up somewhere in her ancestry. So, do they have a rooster for every breed? Barred rocks have yellow legs, unless theirs are not BRs, but Cuckoo Marans. I'll have to check and see what a Delaware Blue hen's leg color is.

EDITED TO ADD: I see that Delaware Blue hens are not actually a recognized breed, so there's probably no set leg color for them, but if she was a RIR or a New Hampshire, she'd have yellow legs. Hers look like Cuckoo Marans color. Perhaps one of the BRs is crossed with Cuckoo Marans, which happens on occasion with barred breeds.​

 

[Bec]

I don't know, but now I am stumped....They do have a rooster for ever breed and I was told by the University that they all have seperate pens per breed. The Delaware blues are supposed to have slate grey legs. They were shown at the state fair this year..all had slate grey legs.
I didn't bring home any of the barred rocks from the classroom hatch, so I have nothing to compare it to. But her legs are not that yellow....I will be back in a minute..I am going out with a flashlight to check and see what we have in the way of legs out there...brb..


EDIT* OK I checked in Little Red's legs...they are yellow down the fronts, white-ish pinky down the back. Very weird. All the blues have slate grey legs, the cochin roo has yellow legs and the EE's have green legs. The Orps of course have pinkish white.

 

[speckledhen]

LOL, maybe it's just the picture, Bec, but her legs there look just like a Cuckoo Marans legs. Maybe someone jumped the fence!

 

[Bec]

Your guess is as good as mine..if that is the case...do they lay well???

Here is a picture of the pinkish- yellowish feet and legs.....interesting..

 

[tiki244]

Well shes just cute and I am sure she will do fine in the laying department

 

[Bec]

Thank You. I love them both ..show quality or just plain mutt.

I know one thing..they love eachother. You won' find one without the other...lol