Giant Cochin - Frizzle/Smooth
Cochin chickens are unusually large, beautiful, and exotic. Originally from China and part of the Asiatic class of chickens, they were imported to England (and the West) in the 1800s and launched a fascination with ornamental chickens. Cochins are covered with unusually soft and fluffy feathers from their heads to their toes. Incredibly, the silhouette of these chickens resembles a ball of feathers - even when standing as their legs and feet are fully feathered.
Frizzle is a genetic trait of curly feathers - the resulting bird looks as though it was caught in a tornado. This breeding flock is a collection of blue and splash smooth feathered Giant Cochin hens covered by a frizzle Giant Cochin rooster. Blue, black, and splash chicks… both smooth and frizzle feathered can be expected from this breeding.
Cochins have charmed poultry fanciers for generations and these birds have been bred for a wide variety of color patterns and are exist as miniature (bantam) and large fowl birds. The frizzle feather pattern, while common in bantams, is very rare in large fowl Giant Cochins. These are Jamie Matts stock which has never been cross bred with bantams.
Cochins are widely known for their calm, friendly, and docile temperaments - often touted as the consummate “therapy” chicken. These gentle giants are slow growers and don’t reach their point of lay until 25-30 weeks. Excellent mothers and inclined to broodiness. Both heat, cold (when dry), and confinement tolerant, Cochins are a perfect California backyard chicken.
Sweetest layers of 180 large to jumbo brown eggs/year.
Chicks are ridiculously feathered down to their toes even at hatch. 50% of this flock’s progeny will be frizzled. The chicks will develop their first frizzle feathers within a week and will be characterized by an upward curling of the wing feathers.
Cochin chickens are unusually large, beautiful, and exotic. Originally from China and part of the Asiatic class of chickens, they were imported to England (and the West) in the 1800s and launched a fascination with ornamental chickens. Cochins are covered with unusually soft and fluffy feathers from their heads to their toes. Incredibly, the silhouette of these chickens resembles a ball of feathers - even when standing as their legs and feet are fully feathered.
Frizzle is a genetic trait of curly feathers - the resulting bird looks as though it was caught in a tornado. This breeding flock is a collection of blue and splash smooth feathered Giant Cochin hens covered by a frizzle Giant Cochin rooster. Blue, black, and splash chicks… both smooth and frizzle feathered can be expected from this breeding.
Cochins have charmed poultry fanciers for generations and these birds have been bred for a wide variety of color patterns and are exist as miniature (bantam) and large fowl birds. The frizzle feather pattern, while common in bantams, is very rare in large fowl Giant Cochins. These are Jamie Matts stock which has never been cross bred with bantams.
Cochins are widely known for their calm, friendly, and docile temperaments - often touted as the consummate “therapy” chicken. These gentle giants are slow growers and don’t reach their point of lay until 25-30 weeks. Excellent mothers and inclined to broodiness. Both heat, cold (when dry), and confinement tolerant, Cochins are a perfect California backyard chicken.
Sweetest layers of 180 large to jumbo brown eggs/year.
Chicks are ridiculously feathered down to their toes even at hatch. 50% of this flock’s progeny will be frizzled. The chicks will develop their first frizzle feathers within a week and will be characterized by an upward curling of the wing feathers.
Cochin chickens are unusually large, beautiful, and exotic. Originally from China and part of the Asiatic class of chickens, they were imported to England (and the West) in the 1800s and launched a fascination with ornamental chickens. Cochins are covered with unusually soft and fluffy feathers from their heads to their toes. Incredibly, the silhouette of these chickens resembles a ball of feathers - even when standing as their legs and feet are fully feathered.
Frizzle is a genetic trait of curly feathers - the resulting bird looks as though it was caught in a tornado. This breeding flock is a collection of blue and splash smooth feathered Giant Cochin hens covered by a frizzle Giant Cochin rooster. Blue, black, and splash chicks… both smooth and frizzle feathered can be expected from this breeding.
Cochins have charmed poultry fanciers for generations and these birds have been bred for a wide variety of color patterns and are exist as miniature (bantam) and large fowl birds. The frizzle feather pattern, while common in bantams, is very rare in large fowl Giant Cochins. These are Jamie Matts stock which has never been cross bred with bantams.
Cochins are widely known for their calm, friendly, and docile temperaments - often touted as the consummate “therapy” chicken. These gentle giants are slow growers and don’t reach their point of lay until 25-30 weeks. Excellent mothers and inclined to broodiness. Both heat, cold (when dry), and confinement tolerant, Cochins are a perfect California backyard chicken.
Sweetest layers of 180 large to jumbo brown eggs/year.
Chicks are ridiculously feathered down to their toes even at hatch. 50% of this flock’s progeny will be frizzled. The chicks will develop their first frizzle feathers within a week and will be characterized by an upward curling of the wing feathers.