American serama thread!

[Fuzzybird]

Toy Boy doesn't have any of that pretty tan in his feathers tho unless it will come later. Close up he shows just a bit of another color.

 

[yokohamamama]

Congratulations! I love Jack's colors, it's called Birchen, right? I have one like him too (Sirius Black) And I absolutely love the colors of Ginger, looks similar to Fuzzybird's Toy Boy


You just gave me the names of a couple of my other birds. My eldest has two "Jack and Jill" living dead dolls that are pretty funny (they look like zombies) anyway, I have these Crevecoeur goth looking chickens, and I think two of them will be Jack and Jill, no I know they will be, that's just perfect for me!!! Thanks!

Oh darn it!!! Our dog is named Jack, I'll have the poor boy running in circles everytime I call for the bird! Ugh, maybe have to go back to the drawing board

Thank you
I think hes a brown red if i am not mistaken, I have another boy who is birchin but hes silver in the hackles hmmmm

 

[chicklittlel]

I think if you can get it to be two feet tall, it'd be comforatble enough. Will they be indoors only? You could get diapers and let them roam around the house if indoors only?

I have a logistics problem now too. I had one roo and 3 hens, now I've added two roos. I don't know how I should house them either! I had planned on putting them all in one space, then the NYD hatchalong was too fun to resist, and I added two roos, LOL. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to put them all together especially since they didn't grow up together... so what to do??!! I could pair them up 1 hen to 1 roo, but that requires 3 new coops and runs! Ugh!

So yah, difficulties ahead!!! LOL

You might try all hens in one coop and all roosters in another and just put a pair together temporarily if you want to breed them. Roosters are more likely to get along if no hens are in with them. I have eleven in one big pen and so far they just bicker a little from time to time. I have had roosters hatched and raised together all of a sudden try to kill each other, and almost succeed, when kept with hens. Hens will lay whether they're with a rooster or not, and most of them are happier not having a rooster jumping on them all the time.

 

[artsyrobin]

had to share miss growls alot, very hard to take this little one serious, she's only big enough to sit on one egg, but she is very serious about it- another week to go on the egg.





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[cluck-cluck]

Thank you
I think hes a brown red if i am not mistaken, I have another boy who is birchin but hes silver in the hackles hmmmm

Oh, I think I sorta get the colors. Mine looks like a black copper maran's feathers. Birchen is the type of E allele which is ER and heck if I know what that entails,

Maybe I should call it black copper? But I bet they've renamed it for Seramas anyway, LOL

You might try all hens in one coop and all roosters in another and just put a pair together temporarily if you want to breed them. Roosters are more likely to get along if no hens are in with them. I have eleven in one big pen and so far they just bicker a little from time to time. I have had roosters hatched and raised together all of a sudden try to kill each other, and almost succeed, when kept with hens. Hens will lay whether they're with a rooster or not, and most of them are happier not having a rooster jumping on them all the time.

Two roosters are hatching mates, but the third and oldest is not. I wonder if they could possibly get along? I'd hate to divide the run up into tiny sections also, that'd be such a pain, and I wouldn't be able to move around in there! They'd end up being 3' wide! Ugh, such a pain...... Yah, I need to work this out, it's causing me to stumble and not get things finished

had to share miss growls alot, very hard to take this little one serious, she's only big enough to sit on one egg, but she is very serious about it- another week to go on the egg.





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Gosh, will the little one have any playmates? Or can it live with his parents?

 

[chickydee64]

Good morning,I have two beauiful chicks so far...she is still setting one egg.........
The fourth egg was a first for me.....She pecked and pecked on it...something I have not seen before.....
There was a good sized hole in the egg...then she scooted it under her..
When I checked later in the day and she had pushed the egg out...
It was a fully developed very large chick...dead..........wierd...........Have hens dump eggs that were not developing.
but never like this.
Will get pic's a little later..so far they are tiny and snow white............
I am going to record weekly pic's this time to track the color changes.
The hens father was a white frizzle..will be fun to see if that carrys on ...........
Mom is strait feathered

About the roo's.
I have seven roo's living together peacefully not all clutch mates........and three Serama roo's living with my English Orps..........
(which is a riot to watch) When they roost, the Seramas scoot between the Orp hens and you cannot see them.
I did have one incident of fighting last year that was pretty bloody and never did get those two to live together again.
I am guessing it was a dominance issue.....
Really appreciate all of the pic's..............

later........................................

 

[chicklittlel]

Two roosters are hatching mates, but the third and oldest is not. I wonder if they could possibly get along? I'd hate to divide the run up into tiny sections also, that'd be such a pain, and I wouldn't be able to move around in there! They'd end up being 3' wide! Ugh, such a pain...... Yah, I need to work this out, it's causing me to stumble and not get things finished

If possible I would put the three of them together into a coop which none of them had been in before. Maybe then they won't be so territorial and likely to challenge each other. Be sure and keep a very close eye on them the first few days because they can really hurt each other very quickly. It may or may not work but it's worth a try. They will probably try to bluff each other at first, but I would leave them together until they start to draw blood. Just be careful not to let them actually hurt each other.

 

[Gardeningmama]

Quote: MEEE TOO!!

 

[Gardeningmama]

If possible I would put the three of them together into a coop which none of them had been in before. Maybe then they won't be so territorial and likely to challenge each other. Be sure and keep a very close eye on them the first few days because they can really hurt each other very quickly. It may or may not work but it's worth a try. They will probably try to bluff each other at first, but I would leave them together until they start to draw blood. Just be careful not to let them actually hurt each other.

I am sure someone has a wonderful story of how their little roo's just love eachother, and they've never had a problem. BUT I can not stress enough how much my two loved eachother, and just as quickly almost killed eachother. It was a very brutal, gory, nasty rooster fight, and I just Thank God I was home to stop it. I am having the too many roo's problem also right now. I have 3 separate enclosures already, and DH is building 2 more this weekend because at 7ish wks. 2 of them are already fighting so bad that ones neck is balding (there are no females in with them). I would absolutely count on them fighting eventually, and have a plan B ready, unless there are a ton of hens around. Just my two cents worth....

 

[chickydee64]

my roo's that live togeather are in a seperate area without hens.......................
The English Orpingtons are a flock so there are hens.been lucky so far.
The Orp Roo just seems to accept them
Good Luck........................