Cochins are beautiful gentle giants. Cochins have enormous feathered bodies and fully feathered feet. They are like giant pekin bantams, and every bit as cute.
Cochins are a friendly all rounder that are great with children or other breeds of chicken.
The Cochin is a breed of large domestic chicken. Like the Brahma, It derives from large feather-legged chickens brought from China to Europe and North America in the 1840s and 1850s. They are good layers, especially through the winter months and make great mothers. 
They will lay around 160-180 eggs per year.