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Jan 8, 2021 · We've raised several colours - black, cuckoo, mille fleur, blue, lavender, black mottled and - my personal favourite so far - partridge. Our current population of pekins is as follows: Trista - hen - Cuckoo [Tillie and Ava were sold with their broods to a lovely farmer we know, and they reared all 13 of their chicks together!]
Aug 14, 2020 · A Frazzle is an over-frizzled chicken, also known as an extreme frizzle or curly. Frazzling is the undesirable result of mating two frizzled chickens together. Since the frizzle gene is incompletely dominant, 25% of the offspring will have smooth feathers, 50% will be frizzled, and 25% will be frazzled. The sparse bristle-like feathers of a ...
Jan 8, 2024 · Cochin bantams are small in stature, typically not exceeding 10 inches in height. This compact stature makes them ideal for smaller spaces and easy to handle, especially for beginners in poultry keeping. Moreover, despite their heavy feathering, these birds are actually quite light. They only weigh between 1 and 3 pounds.
Jan 10, 2012 · Cochin Blue Mottled. blue mottled cochins, or sometimes known as splash mottled cochins (incorrect termage, by the way) are an unrecognized variety of cochins, but are still bred to meet the standard of the typical black mottled, with minor differences, as will be explained below. This is my best hen, Muncie.
Aug 24, 2023 · 27. 54. I have early spring hatches of Bantam Cochins that are laying. My plan was to separate colors into pens late fall early spring. I have black, black mottled, and blue mottled. One solid black rooster, one black mottled rooster, three black hens, two blue mottled hens and two black mottled hens. My intentions were to find roos in all ...
May 19, 2017 · If they are recessive white, all offspring will always be white or black. Blues and splash over color will always give blue F1 offspring, when crossed back to the wild color one more time, you will get a "blue" color phase of the original wild color, example, millie fluer to blue = blue.
Jun 26, 2008 · One pullet is a silver pencilled something-or-other, the roo and one pullet are mottled bantam cochins and the last pullet is just a black bantam cochin. Can anyone give me an idea of when to expect eggs from them? I've read that they're not large egg producers, and that's fine. They still sleep together in a ball, on a shelf above the nesting ...
