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  1. formerchickenlass

    American serama thread!

    I haven't specifically integrated seramas with larger birds (I choose to keep mine separate since they need supplemental heat in the winter), but I've integrated silkies/cochins/etc with large fowl. In my experience it goes ok as long as they have a lot of area. I let mine free range together in...
  2. formerchickenlass

    American serama thread!

    I have a little boy who matches your girl! His name is Tux. :)
  3. formerchickenlass

    American serama thread!

    Just pullets or can you take a pair? There are a lot of good breeders in western WA, but few people will let go of pullets without a male. In any case, I can point you in the direction of a couple facebook groups for the NW region if you're interested. One is for questions/chat, the other for...
  4. formerchickenlass

    Breeding splash to non bbs colors? (Seramas)

    As for which hen is the mother of each chick, that is harder to say. Assuming your splash and black birds are both extended black (and not another E locus with melanizers), they might be impure for it. For example, let's just say both the male and the black hen have genes for both extended black...
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    Breeding splash to non bbs colors? (Seramas)

    I am so late to the party!! Your cock indeed looks splash. All chicks should be blue. I hatch a fair amount of blue and you'd be surprised (or maybe not now) how many look black for the first month or two and then lighten up. Sigrid Van Dort, who literally wrote the book on serama colors...
  6. formerchickenlass

    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    Agreed. I'll have to find a suitable name for this chick that reflects its miracle status but maybe something not so on the nose. :) Do you let usps pick up your hatching eggs or drive them yourself? I assumed it would make a big difference in temperatures and vibrations the eggs were exposed...
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    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    Well, I heard some vigorous peeping from the direction of the incubator, checked and discovered this: So, at least I got one! Which is more than I originally expected given the time of year and fact that the seller didn't drive them to the post office nor have them held for pickup, so they...
  8. formerchickenlass

    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    Does everyone here set their shipped eggs upright and tilt side to side? Does anyone lay them on their sides, or have you tried, and what were the results? I think keeping them upright while the air cells were wonky was correct, but then I wonder if they should've been placed on their sides as...
  9. formerchickenlass

    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    I keep wondering whether setting upright and tilting back and forth twice a day wasn't the right thing to do. Maybe they didn't receive enough turning and suffered some malnutrition due to poor circulation. Maybe I ought to have tried half on their side and turned 180 degrees like I do my own eggs.
  10. formerchickenlass

    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    So I'm on day 20 with my shipped eggs. One pipped today, yay! The bad news is the rest are deceased. I candled each & none looked alive or internally pipped. I then carefully broke into the top of each one. One embryo must've died earlier on (perhaps that was the undeveloped looking one from...
  11. formerchickenlass

    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    Thanks all for the advice! Agreed, it does look younger in pic. I can't recall whether it looked more solid/dark in person. It probably did though, cell phone is terrible at rendering correct tones with extreme dark/light areas. Interesting, I didn't know that wasn't all the actual air cell...
  12. formerchickenlass

    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    I'm beginning day 17 with my shipped eggs. Some of these air cells look monstrous! Hard to believe the chicks will be able to pip and hatch successfully but we'll see. I'm planning to set them upright in my hatcher (and moving them over in a few minutes). Here are a couple of the eggs showing...
  13. formerchickenlass

    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    Frequently. A couple times I've allowed them to sit on the eggs and then have taken them around day 18 to finish them in my incubator. After the hens have been sitting that long, they seem to come right out of it after you take the eggs and put them out on the ground for a day. So true. And...
  14. formerchickenlass

    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    Thanks! I am a color addict in all aspects of my life so seramas are the perfect chicken for me. I've stopped letting hens have chicks. I don't trust them. I think every time I've had a chick die (once they're out of the egg), it's been because a hen killed it. I've had them raise chicks up...
  15. formerchickenlass

    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    In other news... gah, am I really taking up 3 posts with my chatter? Then again I guess it's been relatively quiet here so maybe it's ok. Anyway, in other news, I ordered some serama eggs off ebay. I figured since I shipped some eggs, I should also have the experience of hatching shipped eggs...
  16. formerchickenlass

    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    Oh, and this was super exciting! I shipped eggs for the first time, to a gal up in Washington, and this week she hatched 8 out of 15! I thought that was pretty awesome. This is the pic she sent of the serama babies she hatched <3 :
  17. formerchickenlass

    Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

    Surprise babies are the best! I hatched some mottled silkieds this year too, they are cutie patooties. :) I've hatched a ton of chicks in general this year, too many, I went a bit nuts with it. ;) Let's see what pics I have kicking around on the ol' phone...
  18. formerchickenlass

    Loads of questions about Serama Bantams from someone new to chickens!

    Oh wow, awesome to see those! Is that a recent pic of them? Sorry to hear one of the chicks had a problem. :( That's always the saddest, when you manage to get them all the way through incubation and hatched and then they have a problem and can't make it.
  19. formerchickenlass

    Bantam chick maturing vs standard

    I think it just depends on the breed. Silkies are small and it seems like it takes forever to know which are the males and which are the females. That said, I work with seramas primarily, which are the world's smallest bantams. They can start crowing (and showing a red comb) as early as 2-3...
  20. formerchickenlass

    Loads of questions about Serama Bantams from someone new to chickens!

    I'd love to pick your brain a bit about hatching shipped serama eggs. Seems like you're doing a good job with them now. I decided that if I'm going to ship eggs myself, it'd be good if I know what it's like to receive and incubate shipped eggs. So I bought some this week on Ebay from pccampb...
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