Our boys try to play with the cochin babies frequently, this one is falling asleep
after a good play on his get away car, Lightening McQueen!
Bantam Chickens - We raise & breed our chickens.
We have Silkies, Cochins, & Frizzles.
We currently are working on our own little Partridge Cochin Project, with the help of
some really great Partridge cochin breeders sharing there blood lines with me.
We are working on my Cochin flock, for nice full and fluffy cotton ball cochins.
A little info for my project, about 3-4 years ago I acquired a Blue Silkie rooster and my Black Frizzle cochin, bred together they produced, Black & Blue frizzle & straight feathered cochins, Blue silkies, and what I used to call a Chocolate Speckled Cochin, before I knew any better, talking with someone who knew alot about genetics, showing pictures of the birds hatched we came to the agreement that my black cochin hen must of been carring a partridge gene, the rooster became very aggressive and he was culled out to our local auction. Having these interesting now mixed, cool looking Partridge Frizzle hens, and my love I have always had for the regular old style barnyard colorful roosters, I fell in love with the cochins and Partridge color matched my colorful bird I had in my mind. I bought a Partridge cochin rooster and had him shipped to me to put with my partridge project hens, and my black cochin hen. Shortly after, I got some eggs from the same breeder, my good friend incubated them and hatched out for me 1 Partridge Cock and 1 Partridge Hen, showing the pictures of the 2 growing out the breeder told me the hen still needed some help with her color patterns, (for anyone who doesnt know the Partridge is a tough pattern to work with, and has a long time before they get to kicking butt in the shows) Last year I lost my origanal partridge rooster. However I still have the 2nd that hatched, he is pictured on this page taken to every show I attend and show in, along with the Partridge hen, they both always get BV and RV in their color, even when having other Partridge to compete with. Now I have bought more eggs to hatch from another breeder in hopes to add more partridge to my pen, and eventually replace my project hens, my focus is getting a correctly colored Partridge Frizzle Cochin!!
Today I am still getting some with silkie colored skin, from the daughters, I am not getting the silkie extra toes, and every one has hatched out partridge colored, except for my most recent chick, she hatched out pure black in feather, still caring the partridge gene, YEAY!, I am guessing she is from my newest Black Cochin pullet who has started to lay this year. She hatched from a really cute small egg, pullet sized, and I am still getting small eggs from her. Super exciting!
I have kept back only the best of chicks to raise up. And now I am getting lots of extra eggs, I do not have room to keep hatching and waiting for these eggs I bought to arrive. So now I am wanting to share my Partridge Cochin Project eggs with others, even if they do not hatch SQ chicks, they are still the cutest things ever!!
They lay well, are great broodies and are great mothers. They have great friendly personalities and would be great birds for a 4-H project or Fit & Show!
I have added a group of pictures of my breeding pen, consisting of 1 Partridge Cock, 1 Black Frizzle Hen, 1 Black Hen, 1 Partridge Hen, and 2 Partridge Frizzle Project Hens.
So far 80% of them have hatched frizzle. So if anyone is interested in some Frizzle! You got a good bet here!!
Cochins make excellent pets and parents, almost as good if not really close as Silkies!
At the bottom of this page there is a little bit "About Cochins"
Partridge Cochin Cock
Partridge Frizzle Hen
Cochin Information
While listed in the Standard as a breed, frizzling is a genetic modification that can be easily introduced into any population of chickens. It causes each feather to curl back toward the bird's head instead of lying naturally pointed toward the tail.
Please read article on
"What Makes a Good Frizzle?"
Some history on cochins can be found here:
http://www.afn.org/~poultry/breeds/cochin.htm - History and Facts about the cochin
http://www.longtailfowl.com/cochin.html - Nice History of the Cochin with Articles and pictures
The miniature size and counter parts to the Standard size Cochin chicken. The color varieties of the Cochin Bantam have been admitted to the American Poultry Standard of Perfection from 1874 to 1977. All of these color varieties make excellent pets, show very well, very tame and kid friendly. The Cochin is also known for being very good mothers to baby chicks. The Cochin breed originated in china, known for their gentle disposition and profuse feathering.
Bantam Weights: Cock 32oz.; Hen 28oz.; Cokerel 28oz.; Pullet 26oz.
Skin Color: Yellow.
Egg Shell Color: Brown.
Use: Mainly an ornamental fowl, but their ability as mothers is widely recognized and Cochins are frequently used as foster mothers for game birds and other species.
Origin: Cochins came originally from China but underwent considerable development in the U.S. and now are found and admired in many parts of the world.
Characteristics: Cochins are literally big, fluffy balls of feathers. They are mainly kept as an ornamental fowl and are well suited to close confinement. The profuse leg and foot feathering makes it desirable to confine Cochins on wet days and where yards become muddy to keep the birds from becoming mired or collecting balls of mud on their feet. They exhibit extremely persistent broodiness, are good mothers and are intense layers for short periods of time. Because of their feathering, it is necessary to clip some of the feathers or resort to artificial insemination to obtain good rates of fertility.