Fluffy Feet

**MrsC** · 28-08-2009, 12:51 PM

How cute

**MaureenHall** · 28-08-2009, 12:51 PM

Oh they're so cute

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**matthew2riches** · 28-08-2009, 01:08 PM

I have chickens with fluffy legs and feet. Mine a cochins though.

**Bramble-Poultry** · 28-08-2009, 08:24 PM

Matthew we have both pekins and cochins ;p

She is a lovely pekin and my best guess without a close look is girl - pekins are easy to sex from even a day old if you know how!

**matthew2riches** · 28-08-2009, 08:40 PM

Originally posted by Bramble-Poultry View Post

Matthew we have both pekins and cochins ;p

She is a lovely pekin and my best guess without a close look is girl - pekins are easy to sex from even a day old if you know how!

Great! Are yours black cochins?

**Bramble-Poultry** · 28-08-2009, 08:47 PM

Yeps, got an unrelated trio of black cochins, an unrelated trio of partridge cochins, buff cochins and hopefully very soon once I convince Mike that he wants to build another run I will have gold laced cochins.

But run building in our house is a very sore subject atm - in more ways than 1 - chiropractor is costing a fortune!!!

**Twinsane** · 28-08-2009, 08:49 PM

I like cochins too Matthew. Maybe next year for those when we have more space. We had a black cochin years ago but Mr Fox paid us an unwelcome visit.

Originally posted by Bramble-Poultry View Post

She is a lovely pekin and my best guess without a close look is girl - pekins are easy to sex from even a day old if you know how!

Now, you know I've got to ask ... how?! Or is it easier to show a pic of all three? I'm leaving the other one egg ( 4/12 candled fertile) a few days just in case so there could be four but I'm not counting me chickens...

**Bramble-Poultry** · 28-08-2009, 08:53 PM

Ok so how - from very very early on a pekin make will have a comb, just a little on but the girls will not she will have nothing. It soulds easy but its not lots and lots of experience at looking at pekins heads!! But I have to say as of yet I've been wrong once - and we've hatched around 100 this year

Cochins are just the best - I love them soooo much, I would say that you can keep a cochin in a similar space to a pekin, bantams need more space cos they are more active!

**Twinsane** · 29-08-2009, 02:36 PM

Thanks. We've had a look but are disagreeing lol. I think it takes an experienced eye

One isn't looking very well today. It still hasn't really picked up from hatching and it's a lot smaller the other two.

I like cochins but our garden is used for veg and with 3 hen houses, 2 quail homes and a duck area we've no space left . But we've got our allotment now so the veg can move and by next year we'll have space for more (and maybe even turkeys

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**Bramble-Poultry** · 29-08-2009, 03:38 PM

Well we always have cochins and turkeys available - you're not that far away

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