Congrats @ChooksNQuilts, I have several standards cross with bantams and ayam cemani. I will breed them back together to get a medium size of white and black skin turkens.
This is might be interesting. Couple months ago my neighbor black copper maran rooster was wondering in my yard, so he ended up mating with my ayam cemani x thai pullet. In mid-April, 7 chicks hatched under my pullet. I don't know where to put this posted, but I hope you BYC like them. I have 5...
Here are a few of my grower group I have 16 of them. Mostly of them looks like females, but I might be wrong. They are from the same rooster, but different hens. Still have 28 chicks not separated yet and about 24 to hatched under my broodies.
I used fake eggs every day to get them confused. Trying to hatched out a few chicks from my selected best breed. That the only hen that goes broody really often than any other hens I have around.
It doesn't matter what kind of hen. Chicks could be black or white skin, I have some that hatched this year with only 40% black skin. Some are now showing signs of being roosters, so many chances you could have a few black skin roosters. For the feathers color, they will show when the chicks are...
My flocks are relley aggressive toward momma and her chicks. A few month back I convert this shipping crate into a hutch or coop for keeping momma and her chicks out of the flocks and off the floor.
I got this hen for a while, at first, I thought that she never goes broody. I started picking up her eggs for eating. After her eggs are gone and separated a silkie hen. She started to lay days after days, I went and check by every weekends. She started acting a little weird of growling. I grab...
This year I put this white Ayam Cemani rooster with this turken cross hen (below).
I though that she just a layer, not going broody until 2 weeks. Sitting on 14 eggs.
On March 11, she hatched 10 chicks, 4 are infertile, 10 are fertile, 1 didn't survive, so 9 left very healthy.
I think is a...
Hey @amymitchell, since you have found the culprit. It's a good thing to separated her out of the group. For the rooster, do not go for a aggressive one. I got a couple of roosters that are growing up. I have some show aggression on people, but I have lots that will follow you for food and kind...
This guy might be a funny cross when you know about his background genetics.
About him, he is a 4 way cross. I was really amazed. His father is a ko shamo/oegb cross and mother is a turken/thai. Do you think he's a 4 way cross? Should I cross him to a silkie, polish, or frizzle cochin?
On my opinion, put a rooster with them. Within city limits, separate the dominant one. I always have problems when one is dominant, but putting a rooster with them helps a lot.
First of all, I have some ups and downs in my 2020 project breeding of ayam cemani rooster to turken to silkie to asil/thai to polish. The pullets are laying and I have blue jays and rats snatch some eggs. Earlier this month I mesh out every holes and openings in my coop. After that, my pullets...
It's 2020 and I had have a plan of breeding some of mines. An ayam cemani/hmong rooster with a turken and bantam silkie pulletfor 2020. Hoping to get something different for my Exotic Fancy Farm.
What are your guys in BYC opinion of getting something out of these guys?