The Moonshiner's Chick Chat

[Chookwagn]

Are those Maran cochins?

Huh?

 

[kurby22]

@Overo Mare
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Those are very beautiful ladies!

 

[Bonkerelli]

Huh?

Cross breed of a Cuckoo maran and black cochin Bantam. That what mine look like.

 

[Chookwagn]

Cross breed of a Cuckoo maran and black cochin Bantam. That what mine look like.

They are pure cuckoo bantam cochin

 

[JacinLarkwell]

They're not marans at all. Just barred cochins

 

[Bonkerelli]

They are pure cuckoo bantam cochin

They're not marans at all. Just barred cochins

Oh cool! Had no idea that was a breed!

 

[cluckingheck]

Boots got a new chick yesterday. I had given a local kindergarten eggs to hatch from my flock and only one managed to hatch before the power went out. The rest got shrink wrapped and died. Sad, but at least Boots took it like she had the alien chick we lost a week back. It was also a surprise…they were supposed to keep the chicks that hatched. My sister-in-law ( she’s a teacher at the school ) showed up at my work and was like “I have the chick the kindergarten hatched.”

Also, two of its toes never fully formed. Not sure what happened there as all of my chickens don’t have any defects like that. Issues during incubation?

 

[Chookwagn]

Oh cool! Had no idea that was a breed!

Cochins are the breed..... cuckoo / barred is just the color

 

[Painted Calls]

Cochins are the breed..... cuckoo / barred is just the color

Please stuff some eggs in a bottle and give them a fling my way into the ocean.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Are those Maran cochins?

Cross breed of a Cuckoo maran and black cochin Bantam. That what mine look like.

Cuckoo Marans. With an S. Always an S. They are named after a port in France.

Oh cool! Had no idea that was a breed!

Variety. Cochin (or Pekin) across the pond is the breed. Cuckoo, Blue, Black, Splash, Buff, Red, Silver-laced, Gold-laced, Partridge, Lavender (Self-blue), etc. are varieties.