I can't believe it has been over a year since I posted on this thread; looks like no one else has either.
I still have a small flock of ten serama. Kate-All ten are descendants of your birds in one way or another. I still have one hen from the eggs I bought-she will soon hatch another batch of...
I haven't posted in a while.
It has been a miserable time here in TN. It has been hot, humid, and wet for most of the spring/summer with one health problem after another. Flooding and disease have claimed most of my serama and others. Predators got even more. I've a serama roo with four hens...
Time sure flies by--no posts since April??? Kate, my chicks from your eggs are now grown. One hen has already hatched her first batch. A smooth feathered bird and some of the chicks are silkied so obviously she had a silkied parent. The chicks are just a month old and the hen has a nest of...
A wonderful bird! Sorry to hear that you've sold so many. I also sold off a third of what we had. Too much work and very little interest in serama in our area. We still have many birds, but ... The chicks from your eggs are among those we kept minus one roo that was a mean little monster. For...
Always something! My Tribbles (silkied serama) started laying a couple months ago. One of the two pullets has since brooded and raised chicks-now she is brooding again. The second pullet has laid eggs too-sometimes in a nest and other times any old where. Many of the eggs had no shell. Her diet...
My hens/pullets often act as your #2 for a day or so. It does not seem to harm the eggs any, but I count out the incubation time when the hen starts brooding full time; usually the eggs hatch. If they are clear on the 4th day candling I give them a fresh clutch. I rarely have to do this, and...
Looks like a pullet. My most immature roosters left no guess work at 10-11 weeks of age. A sassy pullet! Yes, please post another picture in a week or so. And with that comb, don't be overly surprised if HE lays an egg in a few weeks.
I have used cockerels as young as 12 weeks and the eggs were fertile from them, BUT DTS was very high. This changed as the roosters became more mature. I can not know for sure that the DIS was the result of immature males, however, the indication was there. I would recommend that they be at...