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Nice birds :) Just to let you know, it's ayam, not ayem :)

Oh no worries, I knew you weren't being sarcastic :) No ayam cemanis have feathered legs. Some chicks hatch with feather stubs, which is a a few patches of down on the legs or a light line down the outside of the shanks, but none ever hatch with fully feathered legs like yours. Does the parent...

At six weeks old with a comb that big, I'm thinking 'she' is a he :( And he's not an ayam cemani either. Ayam cemanis can have feather stubs sometimes, but not full on feathered legs like that. At best he's an ayam cemani cross.

Both genders of chickens have combs, so if she has a comb that's not an indication that she's a cockerel. What matters is how old she is and how big the comb is. A picture would definitely help. Is this a just hatched chick? Because if so then there's no way to tell gender by appearance yet...

Feather sexing requires specific genetics to be in place for it to work; the males must be slow feathering and the females must be fast feathering, and the parents much be crossed in such a way to pass those specific traits to their offspring. There's a section about it here...

Probably not; they don't have the proper feathering genetics as far as I know. I've never actually checked myself.

I got really lucky, to be honest. Leakage is hard to pin down unless you are marking each hen's vent and growing out her children to specifically see what she's throwing. The hens I culled for other reasons also happened to be the ones that were carrying leakage. Because of that streak of luck...

Sorry for your bad experience. A word of warning, hens can carry leakage without expressing it, so even though those two don't appear to have leakage, they may well pass it to their offspring. Leakage is a problem in every line (I think I finally got rid of it in my line last year) so the...

I've never heard of this website either, and in addition to all the things Ravyn pointed out, they also misspelled the breed name twice. That does not inspire much confidence, lol.

That's how every good breeder should look at things :) Never thinking they're done, always looking to improve their birds. I don't think I've actually seen pictures of your birds, would you mind posting some? We all love to see well bred, nice birds :) Also gives others a chance to see what...

Yep, even when you get a really nice bird, you can always look at it and find things that could be better. I definitely still do, even after three years of work. There is always, always room for improvement. And that goes for any breed.

Feather sexing does not work on this breed. In fact, it does not work on most breeds. To have chicks that can be feather sexed, you must on purpose cross two parents of different feathering speeds. Therefore, you would know if your chicks were able to be feather sexed, because you would have...

How are you sexing them?

There definitely is suspicion that the Smithsonian and Mike Bean lines were crossed out to leghorn, and there's good reason to back it up. For one he was actually selling eggs on eBay for a a while calling them 90% pure AC eggs and saying right in the listing that he had crossed them out to...

This is normal :)

Some of them do get that, yes, but it's not a desirable trait and shouldn't be bred :)

Yep, they're most likely pure, but as Ravyn said, those aren't birds you'd want to breed. You don't want to be passing that trait down. Please do come join us in the breeding thread!

I can usually tell by four weeks going by comb size.

If you get really, really close, their eyes are actually very dark brown :) You can tell the iris from the pupil but only very close up. Check it out: That depends on how they're raised - I have several I raised myself that are very friendly and will approach me to see what's going on and...

Mine lay at least 100 eggs a year each. They do get along with other breeds - I have a couple CCL hens in my AC flock just for fun sex linked crosses. I also have some culls in with my layer flock. They are fairly friendly, not flighty. They can and will fly over fences - mine respect them, but...