The Beautiful Bantam Cochin!

[kurby22]

So I inadvertently got four of Hanabi’s eggs in my recent test hatch for two of my Silkie pullets. Eggs are the same color and size. I thought I was being so careful! Here are the four little cuties. They look exactly like my paint Silkies at hatch but then the smooth feathers start coming in and the little bits of red here and there. The folks who want the pure silkies are not interested in them, not quite sure what I’m gonna do with these guys.View attachment 3297412

Awwww they’re gonna be so cute!! I like the way that one on the far left is eyeing you and the camera think that one will have some personality!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

So I inadvertently got four of Hanabi’s eggs in my recent test hatch for two of my Silkie pullets. Eggs are the same color and size. I thought I was being so careful! Here are the four little cuties. They look exactly like my paint Silkies at hatch but then the smooth feathers start coming in and the little bits of red here and there. The folks who want the pure silkies are not interested in them, not quite sure what I’m gonna do with these guys.View attachment 3297412

Silkie male x Cochin female should be a sexlinked cross for skin color, with dark shanks being pullets and yellow/orange shanks being cockerels, unless your Cochin has dark shanks. So at least it looks like you got a lot of pullets if that's the case!

Really?? That first baby? It’s so silvery looking! The lighting must really be playing tricks on me!

I thought so, too!! But, I've hatched several Blacks that I was sure were Blue until they fluffed out, so I guess I am fooled easily by chick down.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Silkie male x Cochin female should be a sexlinked cross for skin color, with dark shanks being pullets and yellow/orange shanks being cockerels, unless your Cochin has dark shanks. So at least it looks like you got a lot of pullets if that's the case!

Yes I know but unfortunately I don’t think this works when the rooster is a paint. He doesn’t have the full melanin.
Hanabi is a red Cochin, she has yellow legs.
I had two chicks from this combination previously and even though they had darker shanks at hatch they both ended up being boys.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Ah, okay, that's too bad. Here I was thinking you'd ought to go buy a lottery ticket if they were all pullets as it appeared! I've heard of it not working for some. It kind of worked with my dominant white Silkie male, but the pullets that inherited dominant white from him had pale legs until they were like a month old so I had thought I'd hatched a bunch of cockerels at first.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Congrats on your babies!
Lost track of this thread.
Lavender will look very light silvery color at hatch.
If this one is black at least it will carry the lavender gene which you can still use in your breeding project.
Can’t wait to see them all fluffed up!

Will they carry the lavender gene whether boy or girl or only if boy,

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Lavender is recessive and not sexlinked, so both males and females can carry that gene.

Chocolate is recessive and sexlinked, so it's a bit more complicated. Females either have the gene or don't, and are thus either chocolate or not chocolate. Males can be chocolate by having two copies of the gene, not chocolate with no copies of the gene, or not chocolate carrying one copy of the gene.

Editing, I'm assuming the chocolate gene and its weird inheritance is why you asked about that, anyway.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Yes I know but unfortunately I don’t think this works when the rooster is a paint. He doesn’t have the full melanin.
Hanabi is a red Cochin, she has yellow legs.
I had two chicks from this combination previously and even though they had darker shanks at hatch they both ended up being boys.

How is lil Hababi?! She sure was adorable!!!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

How is lil Hababi?! She sure was adorable!!!

Hanabi is great! Here is a recent photo of her with Layla.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Hanabi is great! Here is a recent photo of her with Layla.View attachment 3297621

Sorry bout that typo! I know her name I promise!!! She's one of the reasons I got the lil cochins!
Oh she's just beautiful! And Layla is gorgeous!!!

 

[Shetland lover]

Just thought you all might like to see my little 6 week old roo, Stanley. His dad is my blue splash Pekin ( Cochin bantam) and his mum is my black mottle, Prudence.