Ayam Cemani cross breeding

[B-Goock]

This post is a couple months old but I'm chiming in anyway. I've had an AC rooster on a mixed flock for several years. His babies are always have grey-black legs, combs, and tongues. Most of the meat and bones we have had are marbled... predominantly white but with patches of black. Skin could go either way. Overall appearance of feathering is always black, frequently with white if crossed with a bird with lacing. View attachment 1837020View attachment 1837021

Wow that's crazy!
I have a couple mixed chicks I picked up for a $1 and was wondering what i would get.

 

[Eric Rosario]

I’m curious how your project pans out. Don’t forget to post pictures of the babies!

I will too have a breeding group with a Cemani rooster.

Ayam Cemani roo


Hens
Cemani
Isbar
CC Legbar
Pavlovskaya
Golden Spitzhauben

i've bought pavlovska and paduan just two weeks ago, they are in hatchery, i was not able to buy them last year, so just now, slowly i'm collecting several specimens mostly cause of their different features. I'm finding AC very special due to their black skin, but i would like to have them bigger and with different feathers.

 

[Chang1993]

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.

 

[ShannonsChimkens]

Curious to see all the mixes! Once mine are of breeding age, which should be in the next few weeks, I’ll post some photos of the ones going in the breeding pen.

 

[renk777]

I’d be interested to see the pictures. My pure males and all the cross males had quite large obvious combs fairly early-even if there was no red. I had most of them sorted out by comb size well before any gender specific feathering happened.

I picked up 3 two week old EEs a couple weeks ago. Based on appearance, I suspect father is AC. I questioned if there were AC in flock and seller said yes. Since they were sold as EEs, mom was either a true blue layer or an EE. One of the dark chicks and the light one have really dark/black skin. The other has light skin. Pretty sure the dark ones are pullets and the lighter one a cockerel. Thoughts based on combs?

 

[Jhobbs33]

I recently let a broody Blue Australorp sit on 6 eggs, and the rooster is an AC. By the color and size of the eggs, I know 2 were the Blue Aust., 2 were Sicilian buttercup, one silver laced wyondott, one barred rock. Still waiting on the Wyandott and the BR egg to hatch, but the other are 1-7 days old now, all look similar but the buttercups are tiny, of course. I’ll post pics in a few days. So far pleased with my first attempt at hatching eggs.

 

[renk777]

My 3 suspected AC crosses. Not f1...but AC are in mixed flock. Gold-headed and black/white have black skin and comb/wattles. I suspect b&w is a cockerel...looks like pullet in photos aside from the larger comb/wattles. But in person, tail is longer, stands like a cockerel on the ground, and he mounts everything in sight. No pointy hackle/saddle feathers yet but he does have white patches emerging on shoulders. I suppose he could still be a pullet but if campines also run in flock, that could explain hen feathering. S/he truly has me stumped! Regardless, absolutely love them...so sweet!

 

[CrisAnderson27]

My 3 suspected AC crosses. Not f1...but AC are in mixed flock. Gold-headed and black/white have black skin and comb/wattles. I suspect b&w is a cockerel...looks like pullet in photos aside from the larger comb/wattles. But in person, tail is longer, stands like a cockerel on the ground, and he mounts everything in sight. No pointy hackle/saddle feathers yet but he does have white patches emerging on shoulders. I suppose he could still be a pullet but if campines also run in flock, that could explain hen feathering. S/he truly has me stumped! Regardless, absolutely love them...so sweet!

I'm going to have Ayam Cemani/Barred Rock, Ayam Cemani/Ameraucana (both blue/black/splash and self blue/lavender) by next spring. My rooster's old enough, but my girls are all still too young lol.

I may even have Ayam Cemani/Cornish X if they live long enough, lol.

This is my roo, Johnny:

Should be some fun stuff!

 

[renk777]

I'm going to have Ayam Cemani/Barred Rock, Ayam Cemani/Ameraucana (both blue/black/splash and self blue/lavender) by next spring. My rooster's old enough, but my girls are all still too young lol.

I may even have Ayam Cemani/Cornish X if they live long enough, lol.

This is my roo, Johnny:

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Should be some fun stuff!

Please keep us updated! Would love to see how f1 chicks turn out...as well as crosses between offspring. My favorite birds are the surprise barnyard mixes!

 

[renk777]

I'm going to have Ayam Cemani/Barred Rock, Ayam Cemani/Ameraucana (both blue/black/splash and self blue/lavender) by next spring. My rooster's old enough, but my girls are all still too young lol.

I may even have Ayam Cemani/Cornish X if they live long enough, lol.

This is my roo, Johnny:

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Should be some fun stuff!

And your roo is gorgeous!