cochin bantam

Well my sister and I incubated 23 eggs during the cold snap that hit Texas around Christmas and we had 18 chicks hatch out it. My go to chicken breeder had her incubator open as she wasn’t hatching anything at the moment and hatched them out for us. They’re Cochin bantams chicks. The fathers are...

Good Morning! I would like to start breeding for Chocolate Mottled Cochin Bantams. I already have 3 Black Mottled Cochin bantam Hens & 1 Black Mottled Cochin bantam Rooster. I’m having a difficult time finding a Chocolate Cochin bantam for this project. I have, however, found Chocolate...

Hello! I will be breeding a silkie rooster to a bantam brahma and a frizzle bantam cochin. The 2 non-silkie girls live with my silkies and I figured that since I'm probably gonna accidentally mix their eggs in with the silkie hatching eggs, I might aswell purposely hatch some chicks from them. I...

What would the offspring of a gold laced cochin bantam over mottled cochin bantam look like?

Looking to breed my lavender bantam Cochin roo with a White Silkie hen & a Partridge silkie hen. What type of colouring/ genetic traits could one Expect from this combo!? Would love to hear thoughts on this! Photos attached for fun!

Hi all - five adorable handsome cochin bantam cockerels hatched May 23, 2022. No charge just want them "re-homed". Pick up in Sandy Hook, CT. Parents were from McMurray hatchery and Dad is a buff cochin bantam. See pictures: A: mostly white/some black on rear/tail; B: mottled cream/grey blue...

I have worked hard for about a week to prepare a small makeshift coop inside of a larger coop and run that is unsafe. I have. A wire dog crate that I made sides for and a small hardware cloth run coming off of it. Well, I put the final touches on it thus afternoon and planned on moving my broody...

Well the chicks are nearly 4 weeks as the title says and they are really filling out especially the Pekins! Nugget (the more yellow one) is as bold as brass, seemingly fearless. Kiev (the more reddish one) is more timid and cuddly of the two. Heihei is the GLW who's feathering so much...

Bantam Cochins, 4 months old.

I need some help. I got some cochin bantams from a breeder that does AI only. My question is...will the roo breed the hens naturally? He has never been in the same pen with hens to breed. Will his instincts kick in? Anyone had any similar situations?

hi i just wanted to make a thread on breeding pekin bantams for show or to the standard or for colour so feel free to post your pekin project on here :)

Hello! I'm having trouble determining the breed of one of my eight week old chicks. :,) Based on hours of research, I believe she's a female silver penciled cochin, maybe mixed at the very least, but I'm honestly not 100% on that. Any input? If needed, I can get better pictures of her, I just...

I have four 5 week cochin bantams. One lavender (boy), two black frizzled, and one black. Can you help me sex the rest? TIA!

I have a hen that keeps tipping over. Only to one side. She can stand and walk some but if she tips over its hard for her to get upright again. It’s sort of like she can’t get her foot up under her. I right away thought the worst and started checking for symptoms of merek’s. She does not have...

Hello! We recently started raising chicks. The first batch is a happy, healthy group of four, still super friendly and cuddly at 12 weeks old. The second batch is a group of nine and although they seem to be thriving so far, I have a few concerns. Firstly, the Spitzhauben chick seems to be...

hi i need help understanding the genetics of the mottled pekin bantams, i have decided that i wont to learn genetics, now that i have learnt lots of other stuff there is to learn about chickens, so any help would be appreciated,

i just want to know how poplar pekin bantams/cochin bantams are

Greetings fellow chicken people! I started raising chickens last spring, but I’m used to chickens from my in-laws farm. I keep mine most as pets and for eggs, so far we are getting very few eggs. I have 13 hens and 1 rooster. My youngest chicks were born in late September. They are all bantams...