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The Small and Stylish Brahma Bantam The argument against a weight increase By Bob Anderson, Blue Hour Poultry January 26, 2023 On...

By Bob Anderson, Blue Hour Poultry March 9, 2022 Not many years ago from a small flock of exhibition Black Red Cochin Bantams in Germany...

When the Shanghai fowl first arrived in the UK and US in the 1840s they arrived in a virtual mélange of colors and color genetics. As...

As a long-time breeder of large Cochins, when I was asked to write an article for The Exhibitor I decided to write about a current trend...

Today’s discussion topic is the importance of combs. I focus here on large Cochins as that is my primary breed, however many of the...

The original four Cochin color varieties recognized in the first book of standards in the United States in 1874 are Buff, Black, White...