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Date Posted:14:16:43 07/25/09 Sat
I have been working on a brown cochin project since 2004 and this year may have seen the best progress to date. I was only able to hatch out 8, which I think are all pullets, and they all seem to finally have the base brown body color and the black stipling. The hackle and breast feathers are still more orange than red and salmon but progress has been made.
I am keeping records of the matings used and the results of each mating produced. I will publish the complete results when the project is completed so that others may replicate the results and have these large brown beauties to show. I do not think that any are left in existince since the flock of the late Alex Duffy was lost. When Mr. Duffy was showing these brown cochins he was winning asiatic classes with them which is something to be said for a bird of the patterned variety.
When the birds mature I will post pictures to our website and you may see the progress we are making.
Thanks to those who have provided the varieties I have needed to move this project forward (Tom Roebuck & Bill West).
