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Cochin Pullets at 16 weeks

Cochin Pullets at 16 weeks

Below are the latest picture of our five bantam Cochins.  The pullets turned 16 weeks on Monday.   The kids have managed to name them all, even though my husband explicitly told them not to: Penguin, Lady Cluck, Daisy, Harly-quin, and Greasy Chicken.  My daughter wants to change Greasy Chicken to Bockachelli, but my son is standing his ground with Greasy Chicken because of her odd looking feathers.  In general, they are very gentle, outgoing, pretty quiet (unless they see me…

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Cochin Chick Gender- Development Pictures

Cochin Chick Gender- Development Pictures

Summer 2010, we ordered bantam cochins, Pekins as they are called in the U.K, and they aren’t sold sorted by gender at day old because of their tiny size.   We had 13 straight run chicks.    I have read around BYC that most of the time gender in bantam cochins is pretty easy to determine between 4 and 6 weeks and that the males feather in much slower than the females on the back, tails, and wing bows especially.  I…

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