Show off your roosters

[Egg Snatcher]

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Chooks man

Love your Naked Necks!

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

which other thread?

Thanks.

If you post in the other thread, I can probably help.

 

[janiedoe]

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Chooks man

Your roosters are fantastic

 

[MysteryChicken]

which other thread?

Chat about anything with, or without me thread.

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

Chat about anything with, or without me thread.

ok! I'll do that in a few minutes.

 

[MysteryChicken]

ok! I'll do that in a few minutes.

Okay, sounds good.

 

[Killyhawker]

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Anyone can correct me if I’m wrong or misled…I read and was told that purple is a vitamin deficiency unless the bird is meant to be purple—not really any chickens fall in this category unlike gamebirds: peafowl, some ducks, songbirds.

I make sure I NEVER see purple on my Ayam Cemani despite their mulberry gene in comb & wattles

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Anyone can correct me if I’m wrong or misled…I read and was told that purple is a vitamin deficiency unless the bird is meant to be purple—not really any chickens fall in this category unlike gamebirds: peafowl, some ducks, songbirds.

I make sure I NEVER see purple on my Ayam Cemani despite their mulberry gene in comb & wattlesView attachment 3297961View attachment 3297962View attachment 3297963

If a chicken who normally has a red comb develops purple skin, that’s an issue. However, purple iridescence is a genetic trait in some black chickens.

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

Anyone can correct me if I’m wrong or misled…I read and was told that purple is a vitamin deficiency unless the bird is meant to be purple—not really any chickens fall in this category unlike gamebirds: peafowl, some ducks, songbirds.

I make sure I NEVER see purple on my Ayam Cemani despite their mulberry gene in comb & wattlesView attachment 3297961View attachment 3297962View attachment 3297963

There is no Standard of Perfection written for Ayam Cemani so it’s personal preference. The Indonesian birds are all shapes and sizes and the only factor determine quality is blackness throughout. They have the blackest birds you’ve ever seen. I don’t think they care about sheen but mulberry wouldn’t quality.
A lot of people get “purple sheen” confused with “purple barring”. If a green-sheen bird is stressed or malnourished you’ll see a purple BAR through a GREEN feather. A purple sheen vs. a green sheen is not the same thing as iridescent color depends on microscopic differences in feather structure/keratin thickness. If iridescent color needed to be green or it would otherwise have poor structure then every blue colored bird in nature would have poor feather structure since there is no blue pigment in any wild bird feathers…it’s all structural iridescence.

 

[EagleEyes]

As long as I found this thread:
Here is Henry, seems to be mostly black copper maran.B
Born this spring and is with my 8 hens also born this spring

Have to figure out how to NOT post such big pics