Cochins....

 

I thought would post some of my chickens today, I have both the Bantam and the standard size....todays post will be on the bantams...My cochins, I just love the breed of the cochins...I only have the bantam size.

The Above picture is Dancer, my splash bantam cochin, Last year I decided to name all of the roosters that are here on the farm....Dancer got his name because when I first got him he would dance alittle with his neck...Some of the hens are named as well.

 

Here is the hen I got with him when I got Dancer at a swap meet.

She doesn't have a name....Unless I could call her splash.

 

This is Bluebell, When I got her at the swap meet she came with a bunch of little chicks....Some turned out to be frizzles...most of them were roosters and a couple of them have been rehomed.

 

 

This is my frizzle pen....the rooster is Bluebell`s baby, all grown up, his name is blue beard...He is the frizzled
The light tan chickens are bantams, not sure on the breed as they was given to cameo girls....and so is the little blue cochin in here as well. The white one came out of my Bert( Columbian Project)....and then the other one is from the bantams and Bluebeard`s baby, kind of of black, blue and a little tan on it...

 

 

This is Belle, one of Bluebell`s babies all grown up and setting on two eggs...yes she is setting now, I think it is kinda of late in the season to be setting, but she wanted to set , so I put some eggs under her..

This is Bert, the Columbian cochin rooster for my project in that color...I have a birchen colored hen and Belle in with him, hopefully will have a buff Columbian project going as well next year, maybe.

 

Here is the birchen colored hen that is in with Bert, no name.

 

 

This is my Barred bantam cochin Rooster named Broden...Right now I have him in with 2 white and a red bantam cochin hens. Got him originally to try a project of the buff barred, maybe one day I will get me some more buffs.

 

This is Hershey, a Chocolate colored cochin, I asked the person I got him at the swap what color could I put with him to keep this color going, they told me a white, but am not sure ...Right now I got him in with a black hen...He was just to pretty of a color to pass up, when I got him...

 

I also have a pair of partridge colored bantam cochins, but they are alittle camera shy...the rooster is named scout.

 

Cochins are a very gentle breed of chickens, they are not heavy on the egg laying, but make excellent mothers and setters....they are just little fluff balls.

Can you tell that I love the breed of cochins....