I been thinking and planning for next year's baby chick crop.I have 7 cochin banty chicks and if any were hens I planned on mating them and raising my own fancy chicks.
Today while reading about cochins I found information about breeding them. Guess what? The Cochin has so many feathers in the rear view it is a hit or miss deal when they mate. The site advised earthier artificial breeding, which I could not do, or it said you could trim the feathers off the rear end so to make breeding more successful. I guess I will have bare bottom chickens next spring if I want to raise my own.
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He is so smart you've got to make the effort to help him do the business........but will he fancy the girls in the buff? LOL
I think that their petticoats are the best part of them. The look so dressed up and walk around as though they owned the place.
It would be such a same to have a bald rear - but I guess in the interests of having babies, perhaps the ladies would sacrifice a few feathers - they would grow again.
What a stately look. He's majestic.
Maybe you could get Clayton to do the artifical stuff if you shared the chicks with him.
thought about clayton but dismissed the idea.
Yeah, I had a full-size cochin hen who didn't want to be anything but a mama, but none of her own eggs ever hatched. It was okay, I had plenty of hens who had busy careers and no interest in sitting on their own eggs, thankyouverymuch. So Caledonia pretty much stayed on permanent maternity leave and if she ever wondered why her babies looked nothing like her, she didn't let on.
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