BREEDS DESCRIBED 



The Cochins are hardy and easily raised, as well 

 as the least restless of all breeds in confinment. 

 They are fair layers of brown eggs; 

 persistent sitters. Have single combs, 

 which are serrated, and small to medium in 

 size; ear-lobes red; bodies and shanks heavily 

 feathered, more so than the Brahmas, which are 

 preferred to the Cochins by most people. Stand- 

 ard weights, cock, 1 1 pounds ; cockerel, 9 pounds ; 

 hen, 8^ pounds; pullet, 7 pounds. Color of skin 

 and legs, yellow. 



There are four varieties of Cochins Buff, Par- 

 tridge, White, and Black. The latter two are 

 rarely bred. The Buffs are the most popular 

 variety in fact, the only variety that could really 

 be called popular at all, as the Partridge are not 

 bred extensively. The Buffs are usually consid- 

 ered as having the most pleasing plumage, and 

 breed more true to feather. The color combina- 

 tion of the Partridge Cochin is much after the 

 pattern of the Dark Brahma, but the color is red 

 and brown and black, instead of the steel-gray 

 effect of the Brahmas. 



There are both White and Black Langshans, 

 but specimens of the former variety are rare, be- 

 cause there are too many other good 

 white breeds. The Black Langshans 

 are well suited to dirty or smoky locations, where 

 the plumage of a light-colored bird would soon 



89 



