Posts by jocelynpei

Here you go, a Passion fowl from an add in the Mercury newspaper in Chile.  Birds listed as blue laying hens, and this picture of a male.

I think leghorns have been crossed in lately, and it does remove some of the brown tints in the eggs.  It also reduces the intensity of the blue colour.  There are passion fowl in Chile, these birds are blue laying bantams and...

You might be able to mail a blood drop on "Guthrie cards"  These are protein sparing cotton blotters that are treated to make the samples sterile.  They are used in new born baby screening for inherited diseases and...

this is a black skinned male, mixed race South Americanhere is a hen, she is bald so you can see black skin in a living birdthen there are the usual ones, less black in males, still black in femalesJocelyn

Yes, it's genetic and fairly easy to breed out.  I had D'Uccles who had wry tails and crossed to a male who did not.  Some of the chicks were normal.  I mated those to sibs to get some who also had a normal outside toe,...

I have some mixed race South Americans that are fairly black.Also some like this Jocelyn

All the ones I have cooked with black skin have black raw meat and dark brown cooked meat.  I have some of the South American stocks, but no CemaniJocelyn

Yes, I am the person who originally posted the Dong Xiang picture.  It comes from a paper in the  the Blue Egg Clucker, a newsletter from the Araucana Club of America.  There is a Chinese researcher studying the blue egg...

Some of the south american stocks are very dark meat, very black.  They are every bit as black as the swarthons, Swedish black hens.  If one wishes to explore the possibilities of a mirror phenotype, they could form the...

There are a lot of breeds already legally in Canada and the USA that could be combined to make a Cemani look alike with some of the alleles found in Oceanic class stocks.   One could take a serama hen and mate her to the...