Birchen Cochin
A variety of the Cochin
Chicken · Brown eggs · Ornamental
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About the Birchen Cochin
Birchen Cochins are mainly black-bodied with a silvery-white head and hackle, each neck feather carrying a narrow black centre stripe, and a fine silver lacing edging the upper breast feathers. It is a US bantam-Cochin variety, standardised by the APA in 1977, rather than a UK large-fowl colour. The contained silver-on-black detail gives a crisp, formal look over the breed's heavy feathering.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Brown
- Eggs per year
- About 120
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- China
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus