AYAM CEMANI - BREEDING & DISCUSSION.

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RobG7aChattTN said:
I was thinking that perhaps I would eventually just throw these birds in with my free-range egg layers (I haven't free ranged any birds yet but that should happen this summer when I finish the coop area in my barn). They might be wild enough to be good free-rangers but so far the number of eggs is so low. I do think that they are just starting to lay though. I've gone from just the occasional egg to occasionally having up to 3 (out of 5 hens). I have an Ayam Cemani X Sumatra that I got with the regular Ayam Cemani and I KNOW that she hasn't laid an egg yet because I have her in a separate pen with a Ceylon Jungle Fowl hybrid rooster. I don't think that little rooster can breed with any of these large fowl hens unless they REALLY want to...and so far I don't think any of them want to!
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Lol! The girls can be very intimidating to a smaller or less secure rooster for sure... they have very strong personalities no doubt...

For free ranging, they are absolutely excellent... very predator wary and flight capabilities excel beyond any other breed I have had... egg laying is definitely not what they are best at though... mine lay exceptionally well WHEN they lay... 6 eggs a week per is not uncommon, but they go broody A LOT and take laying sabbaticals at various intervals...
 
my ayam cemani rooster has started getting gold laced feathers on its neck and comb is turning a dark mulberry It is from Greenfire farms is this normal?
 
PastorOkie said:
my ayam cemani rooster has started getting gold laced feathers on its neck and comb is turning a dark mulberry It is from Greenfire farms is this normal?
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It happens, but is not desired for breeding... the gold is leakage and the mulberry is incomplete fibro expression... fibro expression can be worked with, leakage he will pass on to his offspring...
 
I guess I will add him to my half way house....where I put all of my undesirables for breakfast eggs. I currently have the AC's, PhuPhams, Pavlaskyas, Orpingtons, (lavendar, lavendar mottled, gold laced silver laced blue laced and a few projects) silver laced polish, phoenix, chocolate polish tolburned polish, black and white polish, paint silkies, blue silkies peafowl and three varieties of guinees.
 
Has anybody out there in Cemani-land ever seen this happen before when breeding Ayam Cemani?
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icanhazchikn said:
Hi, so I'm a little new to terms still, pullets are young hens? I'm just hoping to find one or two hens for laying, we wouldn't be breeding them.
I showed my kids the breed and they thought the chickens were gorgeous, so we were hoping to add one or two to our small flock.

Hopefully that enough information :)
Dave
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It does take some effort to get a truly beautiful Ayam Cemani rooster, but when you do. they are amazing. They really are worth the effort.
 
could anyone tell me what gender they think my cement is. they told me they were pretty sure it was a hen but now in not so sure
 

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