American serama thread!

[cluck-cluck]

Serama Hen, artsyrobin is right, she needs time with you if there is no other chicken around, plus a mirror because you'll have to go to bed at some point too!

Tripp, I hope they turn out really great! I can't wait to try my hand at it when mine grow up

he is really handsome, lareynadenada! How old is he? Would love to see your hen too

 

[lareynadenada]

she's a little shy, has been trying to get under the roo since she got here, I think she was still with her mama til I got her, a member on here gave them to me, I don't know enough about them she said he was a couple months old and she was about a month, they are living in my front room with a heat lamp, how long do you think they will need it?

 

[cluck-cluck]

apparently, they like it pretty darn warm! Mine, when given the choice (that is when I had the heater on that high) will cuddle up at the hottest spot, which was at least 100 degrees! I've turned down the heater on them now as they've learned to climb the ramps in the cage I have them in, so they can sit withing 9 inches of the heat lamp (only a 100 watt red bulb) But the hang out right there and probably would stay there except that the food and water are lower in the cage!

So no answer for you, as I'm afraid to take their heat away also, as it gets cold at night and I don't want them to chill....???

Hee heee hee, I now have all 4 easily tucked in under my bath robe, keeping them cozy

tickles!

 

[froggiesheins]

What little cuties they are! As far as the heat goes, when ALL their feathers are completely in and there is no more down they can go out and live with the adults, but being they way us human MAMAa are, they would stay under the covers till they were 3 years old.

The rule of thumb is for every week after they hatch, you turn down the heat lamp 5 degrees...So if you start at 95 by 4 weeks it would be 75 and by 8 weeks...55 BUT that is not as much fun as:
EVERYONE >>> UNDER THE COVERS WITH ME!"

As long as their coop is draft free andhas a venting of some kind so condensation doesn't happen they are fine outside. IF it gets down to freezing, then I [personnally] would be thinking about a heat lamp for everyone.......

 

[Sumatra503]

Seramas were developed in Malaysia and it is really pretty warm there. Plus they are so tiny and lack the body mass for cold climates. They do like it warm. As long as it is about 70*F or so they won't need the heat lamp, but they will still like it.

 

[cluck-cluck]

Our house is already down to 60 degrees in the evening, not sure how cold it gets during the night, and no more than 70 in the day. My Sultans have had their heat lamp in the same spot because the weather has been cooling off more than 5 degrees a week already, and they seem to survive all right. I measured last night, and they had about 77 degrees under the heat lamp, and they were not huddled together all the time. They're almost 4 weeks old. Even so I'm sure that the chickens will do fine outside, I worry every day about my 2 leghorns in their coop at night with it getting down to 40 degrees last night (weirdly chilly) but they were fine!

So I guess it's a matter of not thinking like a human and realize furry creatures do a lot better than us out there, LOL. I'm still going to find it hard to remove the heater for the Seramas though.

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

please no caps

You have issues...

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

please no caps, it is hard to read, and quite honestly rude

Miss Heny

That's exactly what I thought about YOUR post

 

[Sumatra503]

Our house is already down to 60 degrees in the evening, not sure how cold it gets during the night, and no more than 70 in the day. My Sultans have had their heat lamp in the same spot because the weather has been cooling off more than 5 degrees a week already, and they seem to survive all right. I measured last night, and they had about 77 degrees under the heat lamp, and they were not huddled together all the time. They're almost 4 weeks old. Even so I'm sure that the chickens will do fine outside, I worry every day about my 2 leghorns in their coop at night with it getting down to 40 degrees last night (weirdly chilly) but they were fine!

So I guess it's a matter of not thinking like a human and realize furry creatures do a lot better than us out there, LOL. I'm still going to find it hard to remove the heater for the Seramas though.

Seramas will actually die if they are exposed to cold temperatures. So they do handle it like we think about cold. LOL

They are much different from regular chooks in that regard.

 

[cluck-cluck]

Really? In that case I might switch to building the indoor cage I was planning on. They'll have to stay indoors with us during the winter then. It gets down to 28 degrees here sometimes. And there are only 4 of them....