Sound Audible Radius 1 Kilometer
The beautiful FEATHERS and the distinctive and shrill crowing sound are the main attraction of the ground chicken. However, The "creation" process that is so complicated makes the price of one of these ornamental chickens exorbitant. No wonder, The majority of chicken hobbyists come from the middle to upper class of the economy. Like Hendra Gunawan did, 48, Prambanan Street residents 85, New Garden Village, Banyuwangi District.
The man, who is also the owner of a gold shop in the Banyuwangi Market area, has been struggling with the cultivation of kisar chicken since decades ago.. He has also experienced how complicated it is to raise chickens from the cross between the male green jungle fowl and the female free-range chicken.. To produce quality big chicken, Hendra has to take care of the green jungle fowl who are projected to be males since they just hatched.
This is done to minimize the wild nature which in fact is the nature of the jungle fowl. After age 1,5 year, then the male green hu tan chicken is ready to "marry" the female village chicken. That's also the chance of success or failure of the marriage process, is it still? 50 percent compared 50 percent. “Se bab, even though it has been cared for since it was just hatched, the potential wild nature of the male green jungle fowl still exists.
Se to, The male chicken does not want to marry the village chicken," he said. Another difficulty, not infrequently male green jungle fowl have a tendency to only be willing to "marry" female free-range chickens with certain feather colors, e.g. black color, chocolate, white, and so on. If it happens, The hen that has been prepared as a prospective broodstock must be replaced with a feather color that matches the taste of the stud.
Not only that, with consideration of time efficiency, The process of mating green hu tan chickens with native chickens must be done using the dodokan technique, that is, putting a female native chicken into the male chicken coop by holding it. Nah, if the male green jungle fowl is really ready to mate and the hen really meets the criteria for the tan rooster, In a matter of seconds the male jungle fowl will immediately marry the female native chicken.
The marriage process can also be done naturally. The trick is to put female village chickens into the male green jungle chicken coop, Then leave it until the marriage process takes place. “But, This miah style often takes a long time. The possibility of the marriage process failing is also quite large,"said Hendra. Nah, the process of crossbreeding green jungle fowl and female free-range chickens to produce bekisar chickens that are so complicated, that is the cause of the high selling price of bekisar chicken.
Just imagine, the price of a male bekisar chicken can reach Rp 150 thousand per head. The price of an adult rooster is even higher, which is between Rp 500 thousand per head millions of rupiah per head. "The better the color of the feathers and the louder the sound of the crowing of the bekisar rooster", the price is getting higher,"said the man who is familiarly called Mr. Tik. Hendra added, The specialty of the bekisar chicken lies in its feathers and shrill voice.
It says, Bekisar feathers are shinier and more varied than ordinary free-range chicken feathers. Meanwhile, the shrill sound of a good quality bekisar cock crowing, can be heard up to a radius of one kilometer (Km). "Na danya is also unique, which consists of two fragments of sound and is always longer in the second. For example, the clucking sound of the chicken sounds "cu-iiiiiiing", “o-iiiinnng”, and others," he concluded.
VULNERABILITY TO DISEASE IN THE RAIN SEASON
HENDRA Gunawan, 48, began to be interested in bekisar chicken since years 1990. Previously, he prefers to keep racing pigeons. However, since her first child was born, that one man began to switch to the cultivation of bekisar chicken. Because, he is "strictly forbidden" to raise pigeons by his parents. because of, by preserving mer starch, the air around the house tends to be dirty.
According to Hendra, he switched from cultivating racing pigeons to cultivating bekisar chickens not solely because of his parents' prohibition. More than that, The choice was based on the "promotion" of a relative who said that the Bekisar chicken was unique and rare because it was difficult to cultivate.. Feeling challenged, Hendra started looking for all information about bekisar chickens.
Slowly but surely, he also tried to cultivate the high-value chicken. Even, Until now, there have been hundreds of bekisar chickens belonging to Ding Ding's husband, 46, These are sold into the hands of hobbyists from various regions in the country. "Because the price of chicken with a bekisar tends to be expensive", the average buyer is from the upper middle class.
Not a few officials who buy the size of the chicken that I cultivate. Office specific, usually buy classy big chicken, for example, black cemani color or smooth white,he said proudly. According to Hendra, he chose a female Nagadori type chicken as a broodstock. Because, The chicken from Japan has special features compared to ordinary free-range chicken, that is, the mane or coat is longer and the color of the fur is more beautiful.
Hendra confessed, temporarily stop the process of mating green jungle fowl with female free-range chickens to produce large chicks. Because, the weather conditions are not friendly and it rains often. "If the mating process is carried out during the rainy season", The resulting chicks are susceptible to disease," he concluded.
MARRIAGE WITH PEOPLE CAN'T HATCH
The big CHICKEN is really unique. This type of chicken can only be produced from the marriage of green jungle fowl with native chickens. If the cross-marriage standard is violated, don't expect to be able to produce bekisar chicken offspring. Even more unique, The marriage between male bekisar chickens and female bekisar chickens can't actually produce offspring.
Hendra explained, The marriage of a male bekisar chicken with a female bekisar can indeed produce eggs. However, the egg is empty, aka infertile. "So, Even though a female bekisar hen marries a male bekisar, it still lays eggs, but the egg will not hatch. This means that the marriage will not produce offspring,he explained.
The grip on being able to produce bekisar chickens is indeed inviolable. How not, A female bekisar that is married to a rooster, the eggs also cannot hatch. Not only that, if a male bekisar mates with a female village chicken, then the runan produced is a crow, namely free-range chicken that has a little bekisar characteristics.
If a female bekisar is mated with a male jungle fowl, The resulting offspring have the nature of the jungle fowl that is too dominant. Nah, because bekisar chickens that have a high selling value are only male ones, Hendra often releases female bekisar chickens that he cultivates in the forest. “Because there is no price, I often release female chickens into the forest,"explained the father of the two sons.
Hendra added, Green jungle fowl from one forest from another have different physical characteristics. Green jungle fowl from Java Island have reddish back feathers with white legs. Green jungle fowl from Bali have a characteristic reddish back and leg feathers.
While the green jungle fowl from Flores, Its characteristics are that its body is bigger than similar chickens from Java and Bali, white leg color, and the color of the fur is yellowish green. "So, Other than that, you have to choose a native chicken according to the color of the chicks you want, we also have to choose a male green jungle fowl that matches the color of the chicks we want," he said.
THE MOST EXPENSIVE WHITE COLOR
The process of producing smooth white bekisar chickens is much more difficult than bekisar chickens with other feather colors. Because, according to Hendra, White bekisar chickens can only be produced from the mating process between a white, smooth chicken of the fifth generation and a green jungle fowl.. Explained, if a smooth white hen mated with a green jungle fowl is the first offspring, then the potential for colors other than white to come out of the rooster from the marriage is very high.
"The reason that the fifth generation of smooth white free-range chickens is used to produce smooth white chickens is, the potential for other colors to appear is very small," he explained. So don't be surprised, added Hendra, the price of the white bekisar mu lus or what is known as the seto bekisar chicken is much more expensive than the price of the bekisar chicken with other feather colors.
“The price can reach Rp 3 million to Rp 5 million per head, depending on the sound of the crow," he explained. Hendra added, apart from the sound and fur color, The characteristics that distinguish bekisar chickens from free range chickens are their smaller body size. Other differences, The cock's cock is wider and oval in shape with not too deep serrations. "Ordinary free-range chickens have deeper comb teeth," he said. (radar)
