Tell me about Cochins and laying...

[JenniferC]

Are cochin eggs small or medium sized? I hear they lay about 2 per week- is that about right?

I've read that the eggs they lay are small, but I got 2 baby cochins and they were ENORMOUS compared to the BR's. So how could they have come out of a much smaller egg?

 

[redoak]

I was wondering the same thing a few days ago. Small egg, big chick?

 

[CarriBrown]

I have both standard and bantam cochins, and the standard girl lays a decent sized egg about five times a week. The bantam doesn't lay as much, that I can tell anyway. I also have a d'uccle and some silkies, and sometimes I have a hard time figuring out what egg belongs to who.

 

[Ellie]

I have a standard cochin. She lays medium two toned eggs. She is young, then went broody and hatched some eggs so I don't know if her 3 to 4 times a week is normal.

She may lay more now.

Ellie

 

[Matt A NC]

I have Bantams and Standards.

Out of the 10 bantam ladies that are laying I am getting 7-9 eggs every day. I also have 2 that are broody on empty nests and 2 that have chicks. I am not including them in the count. Small-Medium eggs.

Out the 6 Standard ladies I get 2-4 eggs per day. Again there is another hen that has 8 babies. Medium - XLarge eggs. My Noel lays Large eggs till she hits egg number 6-7 and then the rest of that laying cycle will be huge double yolkers.

My Standards are from Show lines and my bantams are a mixture of Show lines and Pets.

Matt

 

[AtRendeAcres]

My Bantams hens 5 aweek/tiny egg

Large Fowl 4 a week/large egg

Great personalities also really good foregers!

 

[Yotta Yotta]

Wow I'm surprised they lay so well! Mypetchicken.com said they only lay about 2 egg per week. Do you think it's their broodiness than makes mypetchicken.com give them such a low rate?

 

[AtRendeAcres]

I have 1 bantam cochin that is broody all the time in over a year!

((I have an EE that goes broody when ever she sees her sitting on the nest: I think they are in competition))

Some strains are better layers than others

http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/pages/poultry_catalog.html ((gives egg size))

Myers poultry their catalog also gives egg size their birds lay

Most of mine were hatched eggs from sandspoultry on ebay (I also had the best hatch rate with her eggs!

 

[MandyH]

I hae standard cochins and out of 13 layers I get at least 12 a day, everyday. They are THE sweetest birds too. Mine lay almost completely round eggs that are pretty good sized. I have a blue hen that lays a massive double yolker about 2-3 times a week, I guess she saves hers up for all at once and gets it over with!!

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

I just got 6 cochin eggs and they are large size and pretty dark brown too. But they are also Giant cochins too so they may be different. I have pictures if you want to see them.
----> http://journals.aol.com/breakaway1968/hangin-wit-my-peeps/#Entry2258

FYI the girl I got these from said hers lay three times a week