Could GMO colorful chickens work?

[nicalandia]

Aren't the hybrids sterile? Or is that a different color?

The F1 females are some times sterile but not always. The F1 males are 100% fertile. The F1 is called Ayam Bekisar.

I made a special thread about this, someone made a book on this but it's in Javanese/Indonesian

Here is the thread.
Crossbreeding/Backcrossing of Green Junglefowl With Domestic Chicken and Successive Offspring
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...tic-chicken-and-successive-offspring.1504385/

Some of the pictures on the thread.

The crossbreeding plan.

You will find many videos on how to produce F1 Bekisar or Backcross to Green JF called Ayam Bekilus(3/4 GJF), but all of those are in Indonesia.

Ayam Hutan Hijau = Green Jungle Fowl
Ayama Bekisar = F1 cross
Ayam Bekilus = Backcross to GJF

 

[Sneakyturtle]

I’m sure it could be done if a company was willing to invest the money and research into it. Like with Glofish, they have taken dna from jellyfish I believe and used it to modify different kinds of fish to be different colors that “glo”.

 

[nicalandia]

Ayam Bekicem(GJF x Ayam Cemani)

 

[Coops Dad]

Ayam Bekicem(GJF x Ayam Cemani)

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Those are spectacular!

None of them look like they'd fill a soup bowl much less a crockpot, though.

I raised Ayam Cemanis for a couple of years and the rooster got in with the main flock's hens a few times. I could eventually tell whose grandbabies were from that crossing because the resulting progeny weren't great layers, their eggs were smaller, and the pointy end of the eggs were rounder. I culled them out eventually.

 

[nicalandia]

Those are spectacular!

None of them look like they'd fill a soup bowl much less a crockpot, though.

You just don't put Fancy Pheasants on a Crockpot either. You have CornishX or Dual Purpose Utility birds for that.

 

[Coops Dad]

Well, how about bougie pheasants? You know, the ones that wannabe fancy but just don't have the stuff?

J/K, I meant it as a remark speaking to the leanness of the specimens in your pics. I'm familiar with specialty birds; a neighbor blown the road raises peafowl that sell for more than I paid for my truck, and he dabbles in other exotics.

 

[raingarden]

I have about as much chance of getting a Green Junglefowl as a green/orange polkadot GMO chicken.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I have about as much chance of getting a Green Junglefowl as a green/orange polkadot GMO chicken.

Ditto unfortunately

 

[nicalandia]

I have about as much chance of getting a Green Junglefowl as a green/orange polkadot GMO chicken.

True, and while it's highly unlikely that anyone with enough resources and knowledge will ever get to do that(succesfully transfer the genes from GJF to a Fancy domesticated breed). The possibility is a very real one and without the need to go to the GMO route.