The American Cemani Breeders Club...open forum

[enola]

The red/brown rooster is very interesting!

 

[Pyxis]

If anyone is interested, this isn't the project I'm working on, but it is a first generation cemani cross.

His legs and toes and toenails are all dark, and so is his skin in most places.

 

[enola]

Do you mind telling what the cross is? Or should we guess?

 

[Pyxis]

Do you mind telling what the cross is? Or should we guess?

Oh whoops, sorry. Here's his father:

That may have taken a while to guess!

 

[enola]

Yep, would never have guessed!

 

[PhoredaBurds]

If anyone is interested, this isn't the project I'm working on, but it is a first generation cemani cross.

His legs and toes and toenails are all dark, and so is his skin in most places.

He is gorgeous! Never would have guessed his father.

 

[artblueggwanter]

yeah nice pics , those are some dark birds! are these birds in the states? if I could get any of those breads I would start my project already. cemani does not have monopoly on black birds it looks like

 

[artblueggwanter]

dad had a rooster like that but white, one day another rooster dug his way into that pen result was not pretty. white rosecomb rooster winner, a couple weeks later our dovermanpincher ate him. very sad day

 

[artblueggwanter]

they are all very nice. those naked necks really stand out

 

[bluenkimchi]

yeah nice pics , those are some dark birds! are these birds in the states? if I could get any of those breads I would start my project already. cemani does not have monopoly on black birds it looks like

no, unfortunately they aren't in the US, but in Asia....Cemani are just better known of the various fibromelanistic breeds of chickens around the world.......many are equally as dark as Cemani, though to get to that darkness isn't overnight.....takes years and years and years over countless generations of carefull breedings.