Crossing ayam cemani

[ANightPerson]

I've got a 2 month old "Silkie Cemani" - father a WHITE Silkie, mother a pure Ayam Cemani. Was hoping for an Ayam with silkie feathers, this little chick looks pretty much the same as my pure Ayam chicks, except for the little tuft on top of the head & the extra toe. Sold hatching eggs to a friend, he got one too except his chick has some white dots peppering the plumage. View attachment 2346540

She makes perfect sense genetically, the silkie gene is recessive so you will only get silkied chickens if both parents carry it. Pretty bird!

 

[Mothacluckerrr]

Fyi to anyone coming here in 2021... that the Columbian genetics specifically I've found to play really nicely with Fibro!! They somehow dominate white. And are sexlinked by skin colour if you use a Cemani rooster and all light skinned hens (females have black skin, males do not).

 

[Cattle dog Mom]

Fyi to anyone coming here in 2021... that the Columbian genetics specifically I've found to play really nicely with Fibro!! They somehow dominate white. And are sexlinked by skin colour if you use a Cemani rooster and all light skinned hens (females have black skin, males do not).

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AAAAHHH. I LOVE her!

 

[ANightPerson]

Fyi to anyone coming here in 2021... that the Columbian genetics specifically I've found to play really nicely with Fibro!! They somehow dominate white. And are sexlinked by skin colour if you use a Cemani rooster and all light skinned hens (females have black skin, males do not).

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Makes me want to buy an AC roo for this spring!

 

[Cairstine]

Damn! That was my project plan to start next year... I was planning on creating black-meated meat birds to sell the meat locally for some serious cash. Great minds think alike, I suppose.

Hi, So I have an Ayam Cemani rooster in with my hens and am currently hatching the eggs out of curiosity. Planning on harvesting some of them but don't really want pigmented meat. Have you been able to observe whether the pigmentation is inherited when the hen is not AC? Thanks

 

[ANightPerson]

Hi, So I have an Ayam Cemani rooster in with my hens and am currently hatching the eggs out of curiosity. Planning on harvesting some of them but don't really want pigmented meat. Have you been able to observe whether the pigmentation is inherited when the hen is not AC? Thanks

Foxes killed my AC roo and I ended up selling all of the chicks because I moved. Sorry, I don't know. I put that project on the back burner for now.

Although, I'd assume you'll get some. Nothing wrong with pigmented meat.

 

[Cairstine]

Not saying there is anything wrong with pigmented meat, just that I would rather the meat was not pigmented.

 

[RedneckaviaryOK]

I've ended up with several crosses over the years. Here are some pictures:

Whatvis that first rooster mixed with looks just like my OE roo!

 

[Phoenix2023]

Okay so I crossed an ayam cemani roo with rir hens...the chicks just hatched today, I was wondering if ANYONE else has do e this, I can't find any pictures anywhere of someone else doing it. I was hoping to get the beautiful feathering of the cemani, and the production of the rir. So far we got 4 all black and 1 white feather with black skin, and 1 white with yellow skin... Once they are dry I'll post pictures...but please if anyone else has ever crossed a cemani with rir or anything please share.

I crossed my female hen Lisa - mixed speckle spangle and Ayam cemani with a Rhoad Island Red rooster and got her son we named him phoenix.

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All of her hens came out red with black specks on the feathers, however all of the roosters come out with some version of the black and red.

when she was mixed with a Delaware we got roosters that look like your rooster with the different color feathers. Quite beautiful.

I believe the better feather features are most prominent in the female line, vs the roosters line. Her feathers, since she is mixed, shine as purple and turquoise when the sun hits her. Her son also has this feature.

We have now bread her and her son to attempt to get a more pure black meat flock. She is sitting on eggs and cooing, more to come once the babies hatch.