All Black Flock

[Kajoda929]

View attachment 2331238View attachment 2331244View attachment 2331247We will find out with these guys, I’ll breed both the first and second to the third one. The Cockerel in the first pic has darker skin but lighter feathers and second has yellower skin and darker feathers

Let us know when you do!

 

[Kajoda929]

A couple updated pics

 

[Nigel27]

Me too

 

[Nigel27]

I got a line on some svart honas nearby! And some blue eggers! I’m going to work on a black chicken that lays blue or olive eggs, basically black EEs for a few generations then hopefully eventually only blue or olive

 

[mviera101]

That's a great idea ! Post lots of pictures as they grow

 

[Kajoda929]

I got a line on some svart honas nearby! And some blue eggers! I’m going to work on a black chicken that lays blue or olive eggs, basically black EEs for a few generations then hopefully eventually only blue or olive

That's what I'm aiming for, but with a darker brown cross

 

[Kajoda929]

Ya know...Out of thirteen Black Sumatra, I have identified only three pullets...I'm hoping I'm just missing some as they move around and I look at their neck feathers, but that's all I'm seeing so far...

 

[Asm610]

I’ve heard Cemanis are good flyers so keep that in mind, I didn’t even know about them until the roo from the small flock I was watching flew the fence and got eaten by a fox, I incubated all the eggs he might have fertilized now I have 8 half’s, three orps that turned out almost all black and 5 that look like their barred rock mom. I really want Ayam Cemanis now.. but their poor egg laying kinda stops me from ordering any. All of these chicks mommas are great layers, it would be awesome to create Ayams that lay well

Why not cross them with something like a Black Australorp, maybe you can improve the egg laying?

 

[Nigel27]

Ya know...Out of thirteen Black Sumatra, I have identified only three pullets...I'm hoping I'm just missing some as they move around and I look at their neck feathers, but that's all I'm seeing so far...

My AC cross girls have the most beautiful neck feathers that look pointed, but they’re definitely girls. Fingers crossed for you.

Why not cross them with something like a Black Australorp, maybe you can improve the egg laying?

My girls are barred rock cross AC and two of the three are laying daily (small eggs) and one has only layed two huge eggs in the past two weeks, so the good laying has apparently passed on to two hens and the lack of laying has passed to one

 

[Nigel27]