Swap Meet In Ohio Sept 27!! I had a great time!!!

[catwalk]

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There was a couple set up in a corner by a building. They didn't have much, and these were the only Cochins. They had the trio of big white birds, with blood all over them. I offered to help doctor them up with my EMT "first out" bag in the trunk, but they thought they could sell them as is.

 

[lilcrow]

Are you talking about the folks in the corner, straight across the drive behind Gary with the Brahma project birds? They were really in the shadows? Both rather elderly?
HA! Look who's talking

(I just don't have the beard......yet, tee, hee)

 

[thecochincoop]

I think the other side by the big barn. I made a quick sweep looking for mottleds and missed them, but then again I'm selling all my blacks so it wouldn't have mattered. I'm going to move into breeding all mottleds now

 

[catwalk]

I have MF Cochin project eggs in the bator right now, if you'd be interested in that pattern. I dropped a few of them yesterday (

carpal tunnel), but the seller owes me a dozen more. We could trade!

 

[catwalk]

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I think so. They say the pair I bought never showed, but the parents did very well. I hope that doesn't mean they're siblings. I have buff, white, lavender, and mottled to breed them to if that's the case. Anyone have any experience with black over buff? How does that turn out?

 

[macnugget]

Next year I will bring more quail I sold out pretty quick but the best part was meeting fellow bycers and getting to teach them about my birds. I need to make sure I don't have to work next time.

 

[lilcrow]

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I think so. They say the pair I bought never showed, but the parents did very well. I hope that doesn't mean they're siblings. I have buff, white, lavender, and mottled to breed them to if that's the case. Anyone have any experience with black over buff? How does that turn out?

I'm not sure but I kind of doubt if these folks that I got my "Silver Penciled" from have done any showing. Now I could be totally mistaken and they could be completely unassuming and be really big in the Cochin world but somehow I don't think so.
I will admit that I've had a chance to look at this little roo in the bright-"er" daylight, and that's not saying much (been a lousy day). Anyway, he's got some very unusual colors going on in his body feathering, almost like jewel tones, if you know what I mean, but I don't think that goes with Silver Penciled. However, it sure is pretty.

 

[thecochincoop]

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I think so. They say the pair I bought never showed, but the parents did very well. I hope that doesn't mean they're siblings. I have buff, white, lavender, and mottled to breed them to if that's the case. Anyone have any experience with black over buff? How does that turn out?

I'm not sure but I kind of doubt if these folks that I got my "Silver Penciled" from have done any showing. Now I could be totally mistaken and they could be completely unassuming and be really big in the Cochin world but somehow I don't think so.
I will admit that I've had a chance to look at this little roo in the bright-"er" daylight, and that's not saying much (been a lousy day). Anyway, he's got some very unusual colors going on in his body feathering, almost like jewel tones, if you know what I mean, but I don't think that goes with Silver Penciled. However, it sure is pretty.

was there just a couple in a cage a penciled and a laced maybe? If they are the ones I was thinking of they were towards the middle and on the side farther from the road.

 

[lilcrow]

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I'm not sure but I kind of doubt if these folks that I got my "Silver Penciled" from have done any showing. Now I could be totally mistaken and they could be completely unassuming and be really big in the Cochin world but somehow I don't think so.
I will admit that I've had a chance to look at this little roo in the bright-"er" daylight, and that's not saying much (been a lousy day). Anyway, he's got some very unusual colors going on in his body feathering, almost like jewel tones, if you know what I mean, but I don't think that goes with Silver Penciled. However, it sure is pretty.

was there just a couple in a cage a penciled and a laced maybe? If they are the ones I was thinking of they were towards the middle and on the side farther from the road.

OK, from where you were set up, if you walk straight back the drive, between you and Gary, past S-C and start to bare to the left; there was that building that ran all the length of the back side of that horse shoe side of the drive. I hope you're with me, you know how it went in a horse shoe shape around the front? Well, it seemed to me there was a bit of an indentation on that near corner of the building, and the elderly couple was set up in there. They were right on the end of the building, if you had gone on around to the right of them you would have gone down that road toward the ???? clothing surplus or something, I can't remember what was back there. If you walked to their left you went on down the line of chicken/animal vendors and down toward the guy that had the Golden Pheasants at the opposite end. I don't know why they seemed to be so much in the shadows and their birds didn't show very well. Like I said, I didn't even see them or realize they were Cochins until I was leaving your place. I think if I hadn't been walking away at just that moment, with the lighting just like it was, I would never have seen them even then.
By the way, it's very clear that your beautiful babies have been raised very well, and educated beautifully. They are so nice to handle, and they love everything I give them. This morning I was trying something new for one of my recent additions that needs a little extra TLC and I gave everybody pumpkin and scrambled egg (the egg's not new) and they loved it. Yesterday they ate their mixed veggies, whole wheat and yogurt just like they expected to always get it. Beautiful job raising these gorgeous birds. I hope I can do them justice.
Thank you AGAIN!! I love them!

 

[thecochincoop]

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was there just a couple in a cage a penciled and a laced maybe? If they are the ones I was thinking of they were towards the middle and on the side farther from the road.

OK, from where you were set up, if you walk straight back the drive, between you and Gary, past S-C and start to bare to the left; there was that building that ran all the length of the back side of that horse shoe side of the drive. I hope you're with me, you know how it went in a horse shoe shape around the front? Well, it seemed to me there was a bit of an indentation on that near corner of the building, and the elderly couple was set up in there. They were right on the end of the building, if you had gone on around to the right of them you would have gone down that road toward the ???? clothing surplus or something, I can't remember what was back there. If you walked to their left you went on down the line of chicken/animal vendors and down toward the guy that had the Golden Pheasants at the opposite end. I don't know why they seemed to be so much in the shadows and their birds didn't show very well. Like I said, I didn't even see them or realize they were Cochins until I was leaving your place. I think if I hadn't been walking away at just that moment, with the lighting just like it was, I would never have seen them even then.
By the way, it's very clear that your beautiful babies have been raised very well, and educated beautifully. They are so nice to handle, and they love everything I give them. This morning I was trying something new for one of my recent additions that needs a little extra TLC and I gave everybody pumpkin and scrambled egg (the egg's not new) and they loved it. Yesterday they ate their mixed veggies, whole wheat and yogurt just like they expected to always get it. Beautiful job raising these gorgeous birds. I hope I can do them justice.
Thank you AGAIN!! I love them!

I am so glad that you love your babies! I take great care in making them spoiled rotten. It's been bad because they have been a little muddy lately, but I can't change the darn weather and I think they like playing in the darn mud

. It is dried up now and I have been bathing all night trying to get ready for the show this weekend. I am so glad they went to a good home.

It sounds like you got the others from the same place that I bought a mottled pair from. The pullet nice but the cockerel lacking in type. I just bought them for the pullet though. He had two others with them but I don't remember the color very well I know it was a laced or something similar. I was just scouting for mottleds though. If these are the same birds you are talking about it seemed to me that they may have been culls they didn't give me the impression of show birds or a show bird breeder, but I could be wrong too. There's only one way to tell. Finish them out and see what they look like