What color are these cochin bantam chicks

[stephanie1992]

they are a month old i think. Just bought them. What color are they? theres one boy and two girls

 

[stephanie1992]

heres some better pics

cockerel


pullet



pullet

 

[pawtraitart]

Those look like mille fleur / calico "project" birds.

 

[County Boy]

mile fleur project cochins. They will throw mille fleur colored chicks if you ge a Mille fleur roo. Check out fancy feathers. She has a hen that looks just like yours and throws beautiful colored mille fluer chicks. She got hers from WestKnollAmy. The roo is a georgous Mille fleur and the hen looks identical to your except with a little less orange in the kneck. I "love" her birds.

 

[stephanie1992]

Those look like mille fleur / calico "project" birds.

thats what i was thinking, i posted them on the mille cochin thread for more info. I want to make there color better

 

[stephanie1992]

mile fleur project cochins. They will throw mille fleur colored chicks if you ge a Mille fleur roo. Check out fancy feathers. She has a hen that looks just like yours and throws beautiful colored mille fluer chicks. She got hers from WestKnollAmy. The roo is a georgous Mille fleur and the hen looks identical to your except with a little less orange in the kneck. I "love" her birds.

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

 

[nicalandia]

heres some better pics

cockerel


pullet



pullet

they look Mottled Brown Reds to me... ER/ER (Birchen gene) with recessive mottling

 

[nicalandia]

Those look like mille fleur / calico "project" birds.

Calico and Mille Fleur are based on different "e" alleles... this birds have Birchen(ER/?) allele


Edit.. the younger chicks look to be wheaten based

 

[stephanie1992]

they look Mottled Brown Reds to me... ER/ER (Birchen gene) with recessive mottling

ohh ok they do kinda look like that to. Im wondering what they will look like fully feathered.

 

[nicalandia]

ohh ok they do kinda look like that to. Im wondering what they will look like fully feathered.

like this brown reds but with mottling...





but mottling is kind of hard to predict.. some have very few mottles and some aver overly mottled..


I like how this Mottled pair looks like, but they are based on Extended black(E/E) instead of ER