Blue Cochin
A variety of the Cochin
Chicken · Brown eggs · Ornamental
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About the Blue Cochin
A self-blue Cochin: an even slate or pigeon-blue body, each feather often finished with a darker blue lacing, the colour carried right down the feathered shanks. Blue is a recognised UK large-fowl Cochin colour and was standardised by the APA in 1977; because it arises from the heterozygous blue gene it does not breed wholly true, throwing black and splash alongside blue offspring. The soft blue tone flatters the breed's mountainous, ball-like 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