5 RARE Ayam Cemani Hatching Eggs🐣 from Black 🖤 Show Quality Birds NPIP🖤

Description: The NEW Ayam Cemani Flock at Shady Grove Farm WV June 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzFkiJzVJVI&t=7s *PLEASE READ GENETIC INFO BELOW* You will be getting FIVE eggs plus more IF available! We are NPIP Certified! WE REQUIRE a PHONE NUMBER if you win this auction!! Eggs will be marked " HOLD FOR PICK-UP" for holding at your local PO regardless of whether we get your phone number!! Item will be shipped by USPS INSURED PRIORITY MAIL but if damage occurs, the CUSTOMER will be responsible for making a claim with USPS! WE WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR HATCHING FAILURES Our birds are Greenfire AND Feather Lovers Farms stock. We CULL our birds. Not many folk do that! The meat is dark and exquisitely flavored like pheasant or partridge! Other birds have been sold as "pet" quality, as we continue to refine our birds according to their blackness Our breeding stock have NO colored feathers, NO white toenails and they have jet black combs, legs, vents and wattles, but we CANNOT guarantee that you will NOT have leakage! The ROOS in particular do NOT express the "black" gene very well, so MOST ROOS WILL show leakage, whatever anyone tells you. You MUST be prepared to CULL mercilessly! We suggest using the awesome Brinsea Mini II Advance 7-Egg incubator This has auto everything and we highly recommend it for all your small-scale hatching requirements and yes we have FOUR of them! We also send a two page instruction sheet on how to handle eggs after they have been received by you to help you achieve the best hatch rate possible. Eggs will be shipped by INSURED USPS Priority Mail. We pack hatching (and eating!) eggs WAY better than anyone we know, and am VERY conscientious about shipping the freshest eggs possible, but WE WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR HATCHING FAILURESIn case of visibly damaged eggs, or eggs delayed in shipping to a point beyond viability, BUYERS will need to file a claim with USPS. USPS allows claims to be made after a 15 day shipping period has elapsed. IF they arrive, for example, on Day 13, you would have to present VISIBLY DAMAGED eggs to your local post office.. AND the original shipping box so it can be scanned in order for YOU to make a claim. We are no longer able to claim for loss from THIS end, as USPS insists that the original package and contents is to be presented to the local PO .. and that is IMPOSSIBLE for us to do as the package is with the customer! What "THEY" won't tell you about Ayam Cemani "GOTH" chickens! You have probably all now heard of the Ayam Cemani aka the Indonesian Jungle Fowl aka The "Goth" Chicken, or, as Business Insider described them "The Lambourghini of Chickens". You were probably wowed, as we were, when you read something like this from 2013: "Paul Bradshaw, a breeder in Florida at Greenfire Farms, sells chickens for $2,500...per chicken, that is. And $4,999 for a juvenile pair." Heck, you WANT one - or maybe two, don't you? And so at the outset,a few folks, promoting and recognising the demand, got VERY rich! However,there is a lot about Ayam Cemani that breeders do NOT tell you, and I include the main breeders of these imported birds, and that is for every "true black" bird they hatch and raise for breeding, there will be several DOZEN others that will not be completely perfect. Well, from the reviews, it looks like that $199 chick can grow gold, white or silver feathers, so buyer beware! This is not the company's fault because as I will explain later, it is all about the genetics of these birds. BTW reviews of these businesses can ONLY be found on Yelp and NOT on their site, or on Facebook. Funny that! Now, when we started with Ayam Cemanis at Shady Grove Farm, it was with hatching eggs from EBAY, but after culling MOST of the birds that we hatched from $450 worth of eggs at 7 months of age for the freezer, we decided to go with chicks from the above hatcheries, with the expectation that we would get "all black chicks". I was quite shocked to receive one $100 chick from ONE of the importers with pink toes and white toenails. I had read a LOT of complaints about the quality of birds received, and, prior to their shipment, threatened them that if our $1200 worth of day old chicks birds weren't REALLY good, then I would demand a refund through my credit card company and return the chicks. I suspect that they struggled to find 11 really nice ones, and "Pinky" was considered the next best! Pinky went to freezer camp! Note that even a bird that seems oh-so-perfect at hatch, could STILL grow silver, gold or white feathers. That is the case with one of these reviews of chicks Yahoo. The combs will also likely end up as "Mulberry" instead of jet black. However, if you go to ANY breeder's web site you will NOT be told that this is the norm and not the exception, so that is why I am telling you this now. As for the black tongue? I have seen estimated from Indonesian breeders that only one bird in 1,000 will have that black tongue! We had one of these, but he ran into a wall and broke his neck.. that was two yeas ago and he is still the only one. IMPORTANT – many birds hatched with pink toes or a few white feathers DO, after 9 months or so, become completely black. Likewise, that rooster with the dead black comb? When he gets into his second year, he will likely “mulberry up”. These are just two of our own observations.Now, many folks offer hatching eggs on EBAY, which is where we got ours in the early days. I will tell you for nothing that there are a whole bunch of folks who hatch a few Cemani chicks from eggs, raise them, and instead of culling the "flawed" chicks, they use them to produce eggs for a quick buck, and of course, they eventually end up with legions of teed-off customers who don't understand why they have a bunch of silver or gold-necked Cemanis, pink digits, white feathers, or whatever. These people also noticed, like we did, that the roosters are mainly affected. Regarding the colour, even though we have culled ALL birds that have white toenails, pink toes, red combs and wattles, and coloured feathers we are STILL hatching SOME birds with the above faults, so BE PREPARED TO CULL! I have estimated, from our own experience, that 90% of "unsuitable stock" are roosters and only around 15% of these are female. THAT is when I started researching the genetics of these birds and found some interesting facts. The fibromelanistic (pignented) traits express pretty well in Ayam Cemani hens, but the fibro gene is a RECESSIVE trait in the Roosters. That is why that "perfect" rooster that has black everything can sell for thousands of $$'s. So far we have sold, or killed some 94 roosters for the freezer, to get just a few black roos and only ONE of those had that incredibly rare black tongue! Our next steps were to try to identify any "less than perfect" hens and move them to our regular Heritage laying flock. We have already weeded out the major "faults" so are now looking at who has the lightest coloured tongues and vents for example. As we continue to hatch these birds, we will look to remove any with floppy combs or other obvious faults so that we have a beautiful flock of healthy, active birds. However, even then, we KNOW that many birds will STILL be sent to freezer camp around 7 months of age, when they dress out at 2 1/2 to 3 lbs, which is fine too, as Ayam Cemani, with their dark, blackish-grey meat, when cooked in the crockpot, taste absolutely stunning; like Red-Legged Partridge or Pheasant, or quail! FIND us on EBAY for Laughing Chicken (Ayam Ketawa), Sanjak Longcrower, Ayam Cemani (Black Goth Chicken) for Hatching!FIND us on Facebook at Shady Grove Farm and the English Baker for stories and videos of life on our little farm in the beautiful mountains of West VirginiaFind our channel on YOUTUBE

Price: 45 USD

Location: Summersville, West Virginia

End Time: 2024-10-09T17:47:23.000Z

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