gubbingsandhay Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Ello everyone!!!!!! Just a few (well a lot really, hope you don't mind them all!) questions. I have fallen in love with the Cochin breed, they are gorgeous! How many will fit happily in a cube? Do they have nice temperments/easy to tame etc? Has anyone here hatched any? (been sifting through ebay at all the hatching eggs for sale and if you did what did you do with the boys? And does anyone have any personal truths about the breed in general. (some piccies would be luffly to. ) There we go! hope you don't mind all my questions. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Don't have any experience......too feathered legs for me. Remember as a pure breed you maybe wouldn't get so many eggs. Plenty pics here http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Cochins/BRKCochinStd.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I think you need Chelsea - she'll be along shortly I'm sure. Everything I've heard about them they have fabulous temperaments and to my eye they are beautiful (just not quite as beautiful as orps but we can argue about that till the cows come home!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirstine Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 We had a lovely white Cochin called Alice. She had a great temperament, laid some eggs and went broody once a year. However, she was the thickest chicken we have ever had - I don't know whether they are all like that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
half dozen Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 As you can see we have three!!!! beautiful girls. All have been laying daily since feb! Whisper our pure white cochin has just gone broody so we have sat her on some eggs! Our buff cochin ,Willow is such a people chicken and could not be friendlier!!!! I bath them all and blow dry them,they are adorable and so placid.They live with 5 hybrids and all sleep together in a cube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshinesupernova Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I've got two cochins, an orpington, three legbars and a bluebelle in a cube with oodles of room to spare. You should be able to get 7 cochins in easily I'd guess. One of my two has just gone broody. I fell in love with cochins, but being a total beginner - plumped for a mix. I don't regret it - they are all so very different - but it's the cochins that have stolen my heart.. I bought mine as pol and they cost me £17.50 ea.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 I have two cochins. My splash cochin only goes broody occasionally and lays fairly regularly (three eggs a week on average). My blue cochin is regularly broody and doesn't lay as many eggs (can't find a picture). Both birds are lovely natured and very friendly but as someone else said, not the brightest sparks. Hubby always says that when God was giving out the brains the cochins forgot where the queue was. They are also very loud when they announce that they have laid. I haven't hatched any so I can't advise on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatally Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 I think I might have some - I say I think as I bought some Blue/Splash Orpington eggs off ebay and they have hatched with feathered legs! I contacted the breeder and she said I must have Cochins (or they could be badly bred orps - some of the blue variety may have feathered legs I have been told and are plucked out when they're young to disguise it. Anyhoo, if they're Cochins we'll sell the lassies and eat the boys. If they're badly bred orps they'll go the same way as I wanted the orps to breed from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Cochins are adorable, big bundles of fluff! They are very placid, and have beautiful natures - I dont think you would find a sweeter natured hen. They are submissive and can be kept easily with dominant breeds and are happy to be bottom of the pecking order. They get very large and statuesque, and mind have a tendancy to be terribly broody but this would not put me off getting more!! I got cochins because I thought they were quiet - this is my Misty egg announcing!! (this is when I had eglus - I now have cube) http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j18/weener10/chooks/?action=view¤t=MOV00115.flv here's some more pics - They are my favourite breed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gubbingsandhay Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 Thanks a lot everyone for the great replies <3'ing the pics of your girlies! There lovely. Fingers crossed I just have to save up now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margalot Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Wow those girlies look beautiful! they look like 2 chrysanthamums!! Also loving the purple bottom in the background! My Sussex star (beuatifully white) amused our friends when she had her purple botty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 I've hatched a great big partridge cochin...a cockerel. He took 22 days to hatch, I think that goes for all cochins. The egg didn't cheep or wiggle - he just hatched within an hour! Here is Boon - Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gubbingsandhay Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 wow craftyhunnypie he's magnificent! And I've only just noticed the purple to! Why does she have a purple bottom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Also loving the purple bottom in the background! My Sussex star (beuatifully white) amused our friends when she had her purple botty Lol! Ella was hoping you wouldnt notice that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 And I've only just noticed the purple to! Why does she have a purple bottom? We have a Maran who has an obsession with pecking bums! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margalot Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Chelsea are you sure its because of pecking?? you do seem to love the colour purple?!! Its not so she will match the cube is it?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
