Ayam cemani and Naked Neck mixing (with some moral questions)

[Appalachickens]

Actually I think it is the purebred people that should be held morally accountable, breeding a dog with good herding abilities or sheep that don’t need shearing (hair sheep) or cows that give better milk is just fine, but when our own human preferences, fads, or pretensions interfere with an animal’s ability to simply survive, we need to stop and ask is this in the best interest of the animal or for my own benefit? When a dog can’t breathe (pugs) or give birth naturally (French bulldogs) or gets lymphoma at 5 years of age because of excessive inbreeding to simply produce more golden retrievers then we have issues or the breed standard for the show ring has no correlation with the animal’s ability to survive in normal surroundings for said species (dairy cows or halter quarter horses) we need to rethink things. Yes, breeds should have their uses, uniqueness, and enthusiasts but not at the cost of the animals health and well-being. By all means enjoy your crossbreeding as it will certainly not jeopardize the welfare of your critters!

I agree about breeding for deformities. It's why I like the landrace idea - you start with chickens that you think might be well adapted to your particular climate and you let natural selection help develop a bird that is hardy and able to survive on its own. Hybrid vigor at its finest.

 

[ChickenMaster_]

i can make a rough breeding plan if you would like to make a geneticly stable flock of chickens

in the first generation there you would need to breed an AC rooster to female NN's.

Then when you have the children of those you could breed the female ofspring back to the AC rooster.

About half of the chicks in that cross would have a naked neck, keep only them. When they are adults you could select the blackest rooster and chickens and hatch the eggs

When those eggs hatch about 3/4 chicks would have nake necks, Keep only them then breed them with each other when they are adults.

keep only the blackest ones with naked necks in every generation then when you are done after maby 4-6 generations (depending on how luck you are you could be done faster) you have a new breed of Naked neck aiam cemani chicken's.

And sorry for bad english it ist my first languidge.

 

[EggzactlyRight]

i can make a rough breeding plan if you would like to make a geneticly stable flock of chickens

in the first generation there you would need to breed an AC rooster to female NN's.

Then when you have the children of those you could breed the female ofspring back to the AC rooster.

About half of the chicks in that cross would have a naked neck, keep only them. When they are adults you could select the blackest rooster and chickens and hatch the eggs

When those eggs hatch about 3/4 chicks would have nake necks, Keep only them then breed them with each other when they are adults.

keep only the blackest ones with naked necks in every generation then when you are done after maby 4-6 generations (depending on how luck you are you could be done faster) you have a new breed of Naked neck aiam cemani chicken's.

And sorry for bad english it ist my first languidge.

Thank you so much for the response!

I haven't been to active in a few months due to work, but it's nice seeing someone reply to a question I asked quite some time ago.

So basically I don't need female AC at all, unless I also want to keep pure AC as well? I've been thinking about having two flocks, but I'm not sure if I'd be able to separate them properly.