American serama thread!

[Lorilyn Farms]

My birds' treat is spagetti (vermicelli for seramas), rice, boiled with egg, peas and corn. They gobble this stuff up, especially the spagetti!

 

[JulieNKC]

I used to make "birdie bread" for my parrots. I think I might try some for the chickens. It's pretty much corn bread mix, then add some eggs (with the shells), veggies, bird seed, peanut butter, lard, whatever and bake.

 

[Fuzzybird]

Thanks guys got some great ideas! I just may make some birdy bread!

 

[Fuzzybird]

I don't think oyster shell is harmful to cocks. How would you keep them away? Everyone uses it. I don't think I have ever seen the cocks take any.

 

[BantyChickenLuv]

I don't think oyster shell is harmful to cocks. How would you keep them away? Everyone uses it. I don't think I have ever seen the cocks take any.

I don't see how it affects cocks either. When I still had my Cochin cockerel in with my pullet, I supplemented her with oyster shells and grit. I had no issues whatsoever with the added oyster shells/grit. Some people put oyster shells in separate containers so whoever needs them can help them selves.

 

[cluck-cluck]

Ugh, my littlest chick got pasty butt last night. It got into the mid 80's in their brooder! I don't know how that happened! This room has to much varience! I have to watch them constantly! anyway, I have washed it twice, and after the second time, i tried to get it to sip the tiniest amount of sugar water... it swallowed a couple of times... I finally got their brooder up to 95 degrees and low and behold they were both eating like starving chickies! This all happened during the night, so I ended up sleeping in today

though I did get up to take care of the others. I was so scared I would loose that little one, though it didn't get listless yet. I'm still worried. Got the heating lamp so low, i check constantly 'cause I worry I'll bake them!!! Do heat lamps lose their power?

My avian vet, who is world renound, says NEVER is the time. I have lived by this and never an issue. I never feed oyster shell and instead, feed a good diet with top quality food. I never get soft shelled eggs and my girls lay more than I would actually like!

Yah, all the eggs I've gotten from breeders have super thick shells, it's amazing!

I used to make "birdie bread" for my parrots. I think I might try some for the chickens. It's pretty much corn bread mix, then add some eggs (with the shells), veggies, bird seed, peanut butter, lard, whatever and bake.

That's a cool idea!

I don't see how it affects cocks either. When I still had my Cochin cockerel in with my pullet, I supplemented her with oyster shells and grit. I had no issues whatsoever with the added oyster shells/grit. Some people put oyster shells in separate containers so whoever needs them can help them selves.

It was all I could find, our dirt has nothing in it. I was digging around to see how many tiny stones we had in there, and even the things that looked like stones would disintegrate when I pinched them. We're all silty clay here! So I had to buy stuff. I plan on going to the beach for sand soon, and I also went to home despair and got a bag of small aggregate used for concrete mixes and have been filling the runs with these things, LOL.

 

[artsyrobin]

i've always heard to get playsand, since its been sterilized


these little guys crack me up- what do you mean mama has toes???

 

[Easter eggers]

I just noticed my seramas earlobe is swollen tried to post pics but it won't work. What could this be? Thanks

 

[Fuzzybird]

Wouldn't beach sand have to much salt for chickens?

 

[cluck-cluck]

Gosh, I don't know! Would it? I thought it'd be so natural!