Cochin

Calm, layed back chickens at their finest! Beautiful and loving breed. Ours love attention even as baby chicks!

my bantam frizzle X cochin, Spazzle is so sweet. she loves to play outside but sometimes she is shy when i need to handle her. but such a good cirl

My white Cochin is now 7 weeks old. We originally named hi/her Mr. Marshmallow since I had ordered a male. But as he/she is growing we've noticed his/her comb is barely coming it. So we changed the name to just Marshmallow. So far he/she has been such a sweet chick. Very friendly and very laid back. When I crouch and put my hand out he/she will come up and let me pick him/her up. I have an order in for another White cochin male (as well as a few others) to be delivered come June and I can't wait. I love how fluffy he/she is. The only downfall is how dirty he/she gets.

This is my very first experience with chickens. I bought 10 standard cochin chicks in March of this year, and the lady threw in 2 free "just in case."

Well, as of writing this review they are 28 days old and so far so good!

They are all healthy, active, friendly chickens. Since I don't have anything to compare them to, I'll just say that my chickens are very friendly and docile.

As chicks they are currently easy to handle. 2 of the 12 are a bit flighty and nervous, but when I have treats they come to me and allow me to touch them but they object to being handled.

One of my little boys already loves having his wattles stroked. He just falls asleep with his head in my hand!

I have a runt that I just knew was going to die, but s/he pulled through. It is the smallest and is half the size of the rest, despite having the same parents. It only has a few feathers so far so I take extra care to make sure it stays warm.

Excellent barnyard birds, My rooster was best friends with our Stallion..unfortunately this breed is too heavy for free range. They can not fly to escape predators. Otherwise very sweet temperments.

My little Olivia follows me around the yard begging for treats and attention. My cochin is a bantam and lays me an egg everyday except for on Saturday. She likes to take one day off each week

My Cochins are well behaved loveable birds. Wonderful mothers and have always pulled me in a blue ribbon at show. They are soft and so adoriable and make wonderful egg layers and yard chickens.

I have two Cochin hens, with colorings similar to a Barred Rock. They were full grown, 2-year-old hens when I got them. They blended in fairly quickly with the other hens, with a few typical little acceptance squabbles from the other hens. They have become the most aggressive in the bunch, fighting with smaller hens. They also killed a couple of younger poults that the other hens never bothered. I was surprised! I am sure that these two hens are probably an exception to the typical Cochin, and their behavior (and the "torpedo eggs") are probably why the previous owner was selling them.

same story with my frizzle... she ended up being a he...which we weren't wanting cause not really interested in the abundance of chicks... still he was a handsome roo and the sweetest out of the two. i think he was my fav. roo.... if i could get another roo in a later date i'd probably get a cochin .

This is my favorite breed! I got two white ones (Angel & Snowflake) for broodies and now they are lap chickens as well!!! I recomend these guys to EVERYBODY!!!! They are great broodies, great pets, and mine are very reliable layers.... dont forget their beauty
! You can fit A LOT of eggs under them to hatch and adopt new chicks if thrown in with their batch on the hatch day. Oh, and my cochin eggs won me grand champion in the 2013 Bluebonnet Egg Show in College Station TX!!!

Cochins are by far the most docile and gentle chickens I have owned, including silkies. They follow me around and stand still as I pat their backs or scratch their breast, even zoning out as if they're enjoying it. The only problem is their fluffy feathers which, though pleasing to look at and fun to play with, obscure problems I may need to find if one is injured. Also, poop tends to stick to the loose feathers around the hens vent.

My Cochin is my favorite chicken. She's sweet, quiet and a good egg layer. She is beautiful black with a dark green sheen in her feathers. I have no complaints.

I've had large fowl cochins from almost the start of my chicken hobby. I love their full feathered bodies. My roos are so gentle I can hug them like hugging a pillow. Last year I used the broody hens a lot to incubate eggs and even to care for the chicks. They did very well. My flock is made up of blue, black, splash colors - lovely. My biggest complaint is that mud collects on their feathered feet at times so bad that I have to cut feathers off.

So this is the best breed you can get!! They are very nice, and bond easy. I got my first because my sisters chicken died, so we got this cute little black chicken, but i bonded with it and named it Jelly Bean cause it was so 'fat'. She gave me him and he turned out to be a rooster but he was so nice! he needed help getting in the tree everyone roosted in but he was easy to catch. He would run but was slow and loved to cuddle. I couldnt think of any other breed that is better.


UPDATE ~ Got some cochins. A sweety partridge cochin bantam Danny, hes a rooster. Real pretty and real sweet. Got a pullet buff one, whose a talker, Oleo. A frizzle red Rooster, Ylf, whose a funny guy. LOVE this breed and will add pics of the cuties later

Ours are hatchery stock even and SO sweey

When a neighbor gave us what was left of a two year old chick grab bag I didn't like the two Cochins. I thought they were funny looking and a bit bedraggled. But nearly a year latter they have grow on me, and are among my favorites.
Both of my cochins have gone broody and turned out to be good chicken moms. While brooding they molted and are gorgeous now. The flock free ranges and these birds always lay in the coop and never worry me by staying out at night. The one impressed me when I noticed how she forages--she is very methodical about making her rounds, and they aren't big eaters at feeding time.

One of my favorite breeds so far!! With the exception of a rooster I gave away, they have all been super friendly, smart, playful birds. One of the ones I owed was especially special. She was my kid's favorite pullet, Roo. She played with them everytime they were outside and loved being pushed around the yard in the back of a Tonka dump truck.

Great chicken!!!

My roo is a excellent singer and tells everybody that food is here. I don't like the feathered feet issue because it harbors more mites and poop than clean legged ones.

I LOVE THEM!!! I have one standard blue rooster properly named Blu. an di have a pair of black bantams (Martin and Maggie) and 6 partridge bantams (Luther, Leonidas, Lady, Lottie, Lexi, Laura) and I have recived many awards with them. I'm getting frmale for Blu in a couple weeks and I can't wait. It's rather dificult to hatch their eggs though because they don't lay that often. But I really enjoy just looking at them in the yard too.