American serama thread!

[tinychicky]

They are probably still alive then. When hens are aloud to hatch thier own eggs the hatch is often staggered depending on what day the egg was laid and set to hatch.

I would call all of them wheaten but they are seramas... you could call them orange stripey black tails if you wanted to. Serama colors are not standardized acccept for white in American style seramas.

Your hen will probably always lay small yolkless eggs unless she is still a pullet. Pullets sometimes lay smaller eggs until they mature. In any case, small class B and class A seramas are rarely viable even if they do lay eggs.

 

[Breshcandra]

I hatched out my first Serama yesturday.

 

[Coopacabana]

Congrats on the new babies! My hen has started to lay eggs, and I'm about to try incubating them.

Can I incubate them with ameraucana eggs? I think I heard they only need 19 days, but the other eggs will need 21. Can I put the serama eggs in 2 days after the others? Also, how do you crush up the food for the chicks and for how long?

 

[Breshcandra]

I incubated a EE egg with my serama eggs. I didn't know they might take 19 days. Otherwise I would have put them in 2 days later.

 

[diornisextant]

I bought all kinds of tiny ground grains and crumble feeds and had them all available to the chicks when they started eating. they followed the hens and started eating whole grains and an organic pellet that was comped to me to try .
The pellet was a little smaller than the regular pellet but the hens I raised as chicks wouldn't eat anything with any size when I got them so I was really surprised with the chicks they hatched. They go crazy for meal worms too ! I think it makes more difference what they see than what is more available . If the hens eat it they will too . If you drop it in front of them and peck at it with your fingers they will likely eat it as well. Mine only eat the little stuff when all the rest is gone .


Very cute chicks congratulations !

Tinychicky thanks for the advice . I'm truly hoping every egg hatches but the wait is killing me and the difference in size of the chicks is going to make it difficult to tell who to keep and who to move on. Of course I want to keep them all but that can't happen. Do you know if the smaller roosters have fertility problems or is it only the tiny hens laying yolkless eggs that is the issue?

 

[Coopacabana]

Thanks! I think small roosters can be infertile just like the hens.

 

[mauigirl]

dont get rid of them too soon

i often keep a hatch till they are 3 or more months before i decide to sell, occasionally will sell young chicks that look 'pet quality' if a potential non-breeder buyer is really anxious. i offer to take the bird back if it later is not the right sex, the wing method of sexing will work for day1 or 2 but it gets harder to tell after day 4-5

have heard small birds dont reproduce well but figure that is the way of nature

 

[mauigirl]

had 2 chicks hatch 3 days ago, hen has already left nest to take babies out to feed- OMG 2 more hatched this morning (without the hen sitting on eggs)

 

[mauigirl]

I hatched out my first Serama yesturday.

your now a serama addict lol one hatching thats all it takes

 

[froggiesheins]

I hatched out my first Serama yesturday. 

SO UTTERLY PRECIOUS AND ADORABLE!! Congratulations and welcome to the wonderful world of seramas!