the Blackest Ones: on exploring the significance of Cemani mutations

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Thanks! This blue 'green-egger' cockerel is going in the breeding pen.

Are you selling eggs yet?

Still waiting for the girls to get back to laying consistently : ) I'm getting a few eggs Green-Egger DipsyGoths, but not enough to make it worth shipping (and yaaay, they are mostly pretty blue eggs).

 

[farmerChef]

Maybe we could do a swap? I have a few Cemani cross breeds, and I have my bbs Jersey giant hens in with them. I also have 3 pullets(2 blue, one black) from mixed parentage that are from olive eggs, 2 have pea combs, so I'm hoping one of them lays green/olive eggs. Their daddy was a blue/red Ameraucana cross with black skin.

 

[ChooksChick]

I'm still going on mine...been a slow process, but I'm in soooo many projects!

Here's the latest hatch:



Ignore the messy eco-glow...it's been worn out!!

I'll post some grown birds soon.

 

[Chambertin]

Nice black one, and really cute mix.
Missing my projects so much more these days.

 

[joe mac]

What's the "readily procurable South East Asian breed" to continue the line?

Anybody else care to comment on this?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

 
What's the "readily procurable South East Asian breed" to continue the line?

Anybody else care to comment on this?

"readily procurable South East Asian breed"
Silkie, maybe? That is what I used to introduce Fm.

 

[tadkerson]

Has anyone explained the genetics that are responsible for the black meat trait? aka Cemani or Silkie

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

; ) I sure can't.

But I've got 16 new single comb LF Fm *DipsyGoth* chicks hatched just last night. Yaaay, blacks, blues, and splashes : )

 

[perchie.girl]

Has anyone explained the genetics that are responsible for the black meat trait? aka Cemani or Silkie

Did you read the first page of this thread? Resolution is very thorough... I am sure you can look up Melanistic on line because it happens in many different breeds of chicken .... but it also happens in Mammals and Reptiles...

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0006435

Some describe it as the opposite of Albino.... I havent a clue if that is true.

I read but rarely comment here because I am hear to learn I havent experience enough to really add to the discussion.

deb

 

[tadkerson]

I will ask again. Has anyone explained the genetics behind the black bone phenotype? I am not going to read through all the pages, I looked at the first page and this only deals with origins and not the genetics of the trait.

Tim