I bought my initial flock from a friend that was getting out of Serama's. The flock was NPIP and they came from the David Osuna champion line out of Houston, Texas.
My girls have just started laying again and my incubator is already full, as well as a large outdoor grow-out pen with over 30 Seramas in it ranging from 2-4 months old. I'm overrun, lol. I have white egg layers, olive egg layers, dark and medium brown egg layers, and now I would like some blue...
No. The baby died shortly thereafter. I believe that with the crack being on the bottom it may have been struggling for oxygen for a while. There was nothing I could do,..there was tons of blood so I couldn't go in yet...after it died I opened and saw that the yolk was nowhere near absorbing yet...
Well here's some fun news. I went in there to check on the egg again and lo and behold the baby was hatched out and flopping around. That quick. But,...here's the kicker....I have two of the DIS eggs still in the incubator,..just in case ones....since one was darker and I couldn't see in it...
Temp is at 101. Chick has been pipped since roughly 5 pm yesterday. Roughly 19 hours or so. I know to wait it out at least 24 hours if the baby seems okay,..but my problem is that my gut it telling me the chick is declining. I had one of its brothers/sisters pip upside down on the wrong end on...
Still air. All the other ones chirped at least here and there,...the very laborious and heavy panting mixed with no chirps had me a little concerned,..and seeing as this is the last to hatch I didn't know if something was going on with it.
Advice needed please. I have some BR's, some RIR's, and some RIW's that are on day 22 of hatch. I went into lockdown with 10 eggs and 5 have hatched (2 BR'S on day 20, 1 BR, 1 RIW, and 1 RIR on day 21, and now on day 22 I have one little egg that is left that is externally pipped,..the rest are...
I have a few barnyard mixes (RIR, RIW, and BR) that are on day 20 in the incubator today. By around noon, three of the 12 that went into lockdown had made external pip holes. Unfortunately, one pipped in the small end, and it really was a pretty small "small" end. One of the right side pippers...
I'm in SETX! The chicken bug recently hit me and I've been incubating eggs for about a month. We have one little Serama chick, one Welsummer, and one French Cuckoo Maran chick right now, with 12 barnyard mixes in the incubator due to hatch in two days and more in around two weeks. :)
Personally, I know much of nothing, but I really feel like me giving my Serama baby that little safety hole in the top of its air cell, after it had been 22 hours since internal pip, more time to figure things out and the oxygen and strength to make it out.
Here is our stubborn little Serama "Coco". As she dries her coloring is turning out to be quite pretty. She is a feisty little one. :) Thanks for helping me get her here guys! :)
Hahaha I don't doubt it. So far it seems to be drying into a chocolate color. I love how Seramas can be so many colors. 5 more Serama eggs just went into the other incubator. Here we go again. ........
Welcome to the world little Serama baby! @6:55pm (I can't figure out how to upload pictures. ...I have a phone and a computer but it won't upload for some reason)
And. ..the lady I bought the eggs locally from just messaged to checkhire the hatch was coming and offered to drive over 5 Serama eggs so we can try to hatch it some buddies..she's on her way and told me these are on the house! Yay.