It's the thought of a much smaller chicken ruining the hair do of a larger chicken just 'cause he's a trouble maker! He's a very cute jerk and doesn't want to be out-shined by another roo I guess
Gosh, I have no idea, except maybe they're both a little young and aren't producing viable eggs yet? Some say when they're really small, they can be infertile, but obviously that isn't the case there. Bad news for me, 'cause I wanted to try getting a few more Seramas via breeding the few I was able to hatch next spring, and knowing my luck....hello, i am new to this thread and certainly new to seramas. we started off with 1 serama hen, not knowing that she was the smallest breed of chicken and would definitely not be getting much bigger. her name is rosie, she is approximately 8 months old and has been laying "regularly" for about two months. i say "regularly" because we get maybe 4 eggs every two weeks. i have been incubating all her eggs since we got her a husband (singer) who is about 8-9 months old also. i know her eggs are being fertilized, they make it to about day 9 and sometimes to day 14. but i have yet to have one even make it to the hatch box. i also incubate silkies and ee's. am i doing something wrong here or are seramas just notoriously difficult to breed? the incubator temp stays pretty stable (considering the wacky weather here in so cal) at 99.5-100.5 and the humidity fluctuates from approx. 40% rh - 60% rh. it obviously goes higher when adding more water to keep it above 40%..... anyways. should serama eggs be higher temp or higher %rh or be the same as silkie eggs? some of my silkie eggs are the same size as the serama egg, and i have hatched some uber cute buffs out of them that are doing great with the "larger" birds. so i am not convinced it is the actual egg size. and my birds are healthy. no problems. wondering if anyone else encountered this problem. sorry if this issue has already been addressed here, i have searched but cannot spend as much time reading all the answers as i would like. also, i am trying to post 19 more times so that i can start posting classifieds for my silkies and ee's that i am being overrun with right now. (my incubator works great !!) thanks everyone !
Oh he is SO CUTE!!!! I wants to hug...........This is what happens when you trust a Serama to stay where you put him (in the temporary holding enclosure outside) while you clean his cage. Alice escaped the holding pen, and walked through the open back door, where he was bokbokbokking in my dining room and living room, walking all over the place. LOL! He didn't want to be outside all alone, I guess.
He is 16 weeks old, BTW...still a baby. ^..^
I hope it's a huge success!!!
