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chicken Cemani is a local chicken native to Indonesia, where the word Cemani comes from Sanskrit meaning black jet, which is characteristic of the chicken is the whole body is black.

It is said that this Cemani chicken has a perfect black color with a percentage of 100% black, even to meat, bones, blood, and until the inside (offal) all black.

Chicken Cemani can be said is' Lamborghini "his chicken world, how not, this chicken is a rare species and the selling price is very expensive. But behind the expensive price, this chicken Cemani save some facts that are rarely known. What are the facts? following his review

1. Already Famous Since Majapahit Kingdom

According to the legend of temanggung city society, this black-bodied chicken originated from Central Java and was famous around the 15th century, where it was the golden age of the Majapahit Kingdom.

A hermit named Ki Ageng Mangkuhan claimed to be the first owner of this Cemani chicken. But, according to the story of this chicken used to have a white beak and was once used to treat a child officials of the area.

Because of his success to treat the child's official, finally the chicken is breed and mated with other black chickens. But, the chicks they produce instead of black and black colored beaks are also black.

Finally, the chicken is named Cemani which comes from Sanskrit which means black jet.

1. Chicken Cemani Used As A Complementary Ceremony

Because of its uniqueness, Cemani chicken is often used as a complement in various ceremonial rituals such as clean village, saketenan, and grebeg maulud. These chickens are believed to have magical powers that can resist reinforcements (spirits) committed by spirits. Until now this tradition is still preserved in Indonesia.

1. Bringing Luck

Behind the specialty and uniqueness of the chicken, this chicken, is believed to make the owner lucky. Maybe this is not because of the mystical factor, but the selling price of the black color, the more expensive.

1. There are Three Types of Chickens Cemani That Called Has Magical Power

Although, if viewed at a glance everything looks almost the same, but Cemani chicken is divided into several types based on the magical power of Cemani Widitra, Warastratama and Kaikayi.

Cemani Widitra has a sweep of lines on the neck, chest, beak and groin, this type of chicken is believed to have the power of romance and repellent reinforcements (evil forces) of spirits.

While Cemani Warastratama is Cemani chicken which is often used as a complement to traditional ceremony. And the third, Cemani Kaikayi has characteristics with black fur combined blue sea, this type of chicken is believed to lift witchcraft.

1. Chicken Cemani The More the Day the Rare

It is not wrong if the price of chicken Cemani can reach tens of millions of its recorders, because this type of chicken is increasingly rare day. In Indonesia itself which is the origin of this chicken, is very rarely encountered breeders of this type of chicken.

This is not out of the assumption that many people breed this type of chicken is against the teachings of religion, because as we know this chicken is often used as a complement in ancient rituals.

1. Why Color Can Cemani Cemani Black Legam?

According to research results, black color of Cemani chicken is the result of a unique genetic condition called fibromelanosis. This condition causes cell mutations known to function in the chicken's body cells.

Leif Adersson, a Swedish scientist, found that this mutated gene is an "endothelian-3" gene (EDN-3) is a gene that makes the epidermal cell layer throughout the body of the chicken produce a black (pigment) color.

Known, aged Cemani chickens, the number of EDN-3 gene increased more than 10-fold compared with ordinary chickens.

1. Apparently White Eggs

Things are still mysterious and continue to do research that is why Cemani chicken eggs are still white bones with some pink spots. This is different from the color of his body is entirely black.

When shined with a flashlight, the inside of this chicken egg looks almost the same as chicken eggs in general. The new black color will appear after the chicken embryo appears, it also be a sign that the chicken egg is fertile and can hatch.