What color are these cochin bantam chicks

[stephanie1992]

i just called the girl i got them from. She said she has a mille roo in with a mille hen and a mottled hen. could these be mottled and mille mix??

 

[nicalandia]

here I was able to find another brown red mottled bird.. this hen has a few mottling spots..




now an overly mottled bird, its called hysterical mottling

 

[nicalandia]

i just called the girl i got them from. She said she has a mille roo in with a mille hen and a mottled hen. could these be mottled and mille mix??

yes... you se a mille fleur pattern is mottling on a restricted brown background(eb) and mottled(all black with white dots) can also be based on ER birchen(most are Extended black) with melanizers and ER birchen is dominant over eb(brown) so this young ones may very well be ER/eb or E/eb some times E/eb can look like ER

 

[stephanie1992]

yes... you se a mille fleur pattern is mottling on a restricted brown background(eb) and mottled(all black with white dots) can also be based on ER birchen(most are Extended black) with melanizers and ER birchen is dominant over eb(brown) so this young ones may very well be ER/eb or E/eb some times E/eb can look like ER

ohh ok that makes since. Thank u for ur information

 

[County Boy]

ohh ok. What if i breed the roo to the hens? will they get better color or produce the same? Ill look for a mille roo to breed to them. they all have orange on there necks

I'm not sure. I haven't seen it done that way.

 

[stephanie1992]

I'm not sure. I haven't seen it done that way.

ok lol. Im going to try it to see what hapens. There just pets so it couldnt hurt.

 

[nicalandia]

I'm not sure. I haven't seen it done that way.

brother to sister mating is quite popular, but if he does that he will end up with 75% of the chicks looking like mottled birchen and 25% of them mille fleur

 

[SierraView]

They could've came from these birds. I sold them about 6 months ago to someone around Denair.

 

[SierraView]

OOps double posted

 

[stephanie1992]

They could've came from these birds. I sold them about 6 months ago to someone around Denair.

that looks just like the rooster she has! She showed him at the fair! Do u remember her name?