Ayam Cemani

[Black Feather]

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Your right, I totally forgot about the yellow skin on the Sumatras....brain just isn't working sometimes.

 

[Old Rando]

Some links for the sake of interest
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/chickens/ac/index.htm Ac chicken

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Svart/BRKSvart.html Swedish Black Hen

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Cemani/BRKCemani.html Ayam Cemani

 

[Happy Chicken Mama]

The Kedu lay brown eggs. I think the Cemani do as well.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

You need to talk to Toni-Marie. She has already started a project like this.

http://countrywhatnotgardens.com/bantamlongtails/

 

[Happy Chicken Mama]

Thanks Long tails. I emailed Toni-Marie and am waiting for a reply... will let you all know what she says.

I have a lady from Vietnam who does my nails... going to pick her brain about the ac chicken. I know she has chickens now... but just ones she gotten here in the states.

I also found an email adress for Thomas Nageele. Still waiting for a reply... if I don't hear back Ill look for another email address.

fun...

Great links Rando!

 

[BianWI]

I recreated a cemani look alike and got very far in about two years before I stopped. Find some rapanuis with black skin, sumatras, quetros with black skin. Now remember, a true cemani has black meat as well and this will start to happen (rapanuis bones are already quite black). There are several genes involved and it takes all of them plus some development to get the birds that way. Silkies can be used as well as other black skinned birds to enhance the effect. Concentrate first on the pigmentation, then clean up the bird to fit the phenotype.

BrianWI

 

[Happy Chicken Mama]

Please tell us more about how you went about this... do you have any pctures???

Do you still have any of the birds??

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Check out these dark-skin beauties!

A frizzle and a smooth youngster from my Naked Neck Frizzled Green-egger project:

and a Naked Neck from my dark-skin Giant Naked Neck project:

Lisa

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Now those are cool!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Thanks! I think they are cool.
I was showing them off to my brother the other day (he breeds American Games and ONLY Am Games) and he told me I'd "better quit @#$%ing around with crossing birds or I'd end up with Frankenchicken". I showed him the next brooder and he said "Too late to worry about that".
I've got a few more dark-skinned ones that I'll get pics of later. There are a couple of dark-skinned splash frizzled NNs that are especially striking.

Lisa