i do want to say that they are not winter hardy here and need to be inside with temp 40 degrees or higher. They do not have regular sealed feathering like normal chickens. Cold air gets under feathers and they can not stay warm.
Hi I am in Indiana and I have Serama. A good place to go is (Serama Marketplace) They do have a lot of show quality birds but also pet quality. These are great birds friendly and easy to work with.
i have French black copper marans hatching. This is fi St chick to hatch. Came out of a very dark egg. Looks like a soft ginger or buff color with some dark maybe black pencil thin streaks. Shouldn't black copper hatch out black?
As of now (8:01 pm) have 6 hatched and one more pipped out of 13 Serama eggs. Hoping for more tonight or tomorrow. Seems they go from early to late. Happy to have 6 hatched as lost power an bator down to 96 when I found out. At least our of power an hour before got generator going.
Just had...
Have 13 Serama in lock down. 3 pipped this morning before 8 am EST. Sweaty palms waiting for more. Pacing back and forth with dogs on my heels checking bator.
Hello, I have Serama too. Doing the hatch-a-long so should have a January 1st hatch date. Started with 18 eggs: 2 not fertile and 1 started and stopped very early, 1 stopped by day 14. Have 14 in now but don't know how many will hatch. Last time put in 8 and had 9 hatch. I run temp. at...