Are sebright chicks really hard to raise?

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any care info greatly needed.live in northern wisconsin,just rescued a sarama hen.put her in with my silkie female.do i need to do any thing special for winter?
 
Dinos_rock said:
I read in a chicken breed book that sebright chicks are really difficult to raise (without them dying). Is this true? I already ordered a sebright chick and I don't want it to die.
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Is there anything I can do to help it have a better chance of surivival? (vitamins or something?
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We raise them and haven't had any die after hatching and treat them as all the others...The ONLY issue we find with them is they stay so small that they quickly become the target of big feet so we keep moving them back with other younger babies(i.e. silkies, polish, etc.) until they can go outside or sold...Besides that, they've become a favorite, we let them free range, only breed we allow, and are some of the sweetest birds with great temperaments...
 
So I've been raising 10-50 chicks a year for five years and I've only had one die and so this year I'm getting a golden seabright with a bunch of other bantams. I'm just wondering if you guys think that it'll be okay. My neighbor bought two last year from where I'm getting mine and they both died. I'm getting it from Dunlap Hatchery. Had anyone had success with Dunlap seabrights? I'm planning on it being in my laundry room for two weeks and then I'll move it out to my garage until I think it's big enough. I'm getting in vaccinated from mareks as well. Is there anything else I should be doing?
 
I had no idea what breed they were when I bought them alongside some Bantam coachens, when people say they're harder to raise it's because of their small size and they're a bit weaker but as long as you have a safe place to keep them even as adults they'll be fine, realistically they can fly extremely well and they're fast too so even when free ranging they're pretty much safe from most predators, I'd even say there better at surviving than most standard breeds. I bought two, which ended up being a rooster and a hen, with my Bantam coachens and my coachins actually hatched some of my sebrights eggs, it really helps if you have safe places for them to hide. They're easily stressed birds so be sure to keep an eye on their stress levels because stress one of the biggest killers of these beautiful birds
 

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