LOVELY birds! I think you very eloquently stated a great deal of common senseThere really is no standard yet for the American Cemoni. Even Cemoni farms has Regular quality and best quality he calls them. If you raise enough birds you get culls..In every single breed there is. It's up to us to try to breed them as dark as possible. I've had mine going on 7 years now. Mine were a land race breed and not breed by a breeder.. They can be now that people want them. If you get all perfect birds wow you have some birds.. Any however you look at it there will be 3 lines out there. There is work to be done with them still like any new breed to the states. Breed darkest ones together and start culling hard. But I guess if you have all perfect birds you dont have culls..Interesting..I think mine are not bad for a land race fowl and not breed to a standard.. They are still like they were we got them..So they may not be perfect but there are no perfect birds that's what showing and breeding is all about. And NEVER bash someones birds. Like any new breed there is work to be done..
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