American serama thread!

[larps1234]

i thought it seemed very cruel too. i wish there was some way to keep a rooster from crowing.... anyone have any ideas for a contraption that isnt cruel?

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Here is cuteness crowing. Tell me it's not the best thing to wake up to....

 

[froggiesheins]

x2. Taping a roosters' mouth, IMO, is animal cruelty. Others may disagree, but I would never do that. If you don't want to hear a roosters' crow then don't have one in the first place.

AMEN! N!

And time to change the subject! case closed.

 

[larps1234]

you guys are right! i just really wanted to breed... mabe i can meet somone in the farm county and mabe we can breed birds!

 

[larps1234]

this was my post yesterday:

my serama is starting to worry me. her comb is starting to get bigger? do you guys think it has something to do with the new cockerel i put in the coop? today she feels heavier, comb a little redder and bigger, and her tail looks more open then ever, and her vent is a little bigger than usual? she is exactly 113 days old today. could this mean she is ready to lay eggs? yesterday she was normal, today shes different?

the person i bought the eggs off of said his birds didnt start laying until 5-6 months old? only comb is big, watlles and earlobes are same size, just redder.




here is the hen i was talking about yesterday... she is the dominant one. i noticed all these changes the next day

this pick was taken march 15, 2013 ------ 99 days old, her legs here are yellower than last pic

here you can see how much bigger her comb got in one day ------ 114 days old







this is her vent


her legs are paler than she used to be.

 

[larps1234]

o.k, this is crazy. the ameraucana is in fact a cockeral, the are roughly the same size, the hen (black serama) now weight 17.49 ounces, the Amereaucana cockeral weighs about 4 1/2 -5 ounces. the serama hasnt really grown too much since i last measured her, last time, about 1 month ago she only weighed 11.20 ounces/ is it possible she has an egg in her? this early?

 

[Fuzzybird]

There is a lot of Serama breeders on here and I value your input. What is a fair price for a young Serama, 8 weeks and older. Say they are very pretty and could type but not sure if show type. I already know the sex of the youngsters and a few are silky seramas. I have never sold any before. I got mine from eggs on a winner of eggs and a trade so never had to buy them. Please help me decide what to ask that is fair. Thanks.

 

[larps1234]

silkied $50
regular $35 - $40 is what i am seeing

 

[JulieNKC]

i thought it seemed very cruel too. i wish there was some way to keep a rooster from crowing.... anyone have any ideas for a contraption that isnt cruel?

Is it crowing at all you can't have, or just during certain hours? My seramas were inside over winter, and they kept waking me up around 4 am with their crowing.

I started putting them in a small dog crate or box at night to sleep, and letting them out when I woke up. They didn't crow as much and it muffled what crows they did and wasn't so bad. Now that they are outside they seem more occupied with more to do, and haven't been crowing nearly as much at all.

this was my post yesterday:

my serama is starting to worry me. her comb is starting to get bigger? do you guys think it has something to do with the new cockerel i put in the coop? today she feels heavier, comb a little redder and bigger, and her tail looks more open then ever, and her vent is a little bigger than usual? she is exactly 113 days old today. could this mean she is ready to lay eggs? yesterday she was normal, today shes different?

the person i bought the eggs off of said his birds didnt start laying until 5-6 months old? only comb is big, watlles and earlobes are same size, just redder.




here is the hen i was talking about yesterday... she is the dominant one. i noticed all these changes the next day

this pick was taken march 15, 2013 ------ 99 days old, her legs here are yellower than last pic



here you can see how much bigger her comb got in one day ------ 114 days old







this is her vent


her legs are paler than she used to be.

She looks like a pretty girl getting close to giving you her first egg to me.

My girls started around 18-22 weeks.

 

[larps1234]

Is it crowing at all you can't have, or just during certain hours? My seramas were inside over winter, and they kept waking me up around 4 am with their crowing.

I started putting them in a small dog crate or box at night to sleep, and letting them out when I woke up. They didn't crow as much and it muffled what crows they did and wasn't so bad. Now that they are outside they seem more occupied with more to do, and haven't been crowing nearly as much at all.
She looks like a pretty girl getting close to giving you her first egg to me.

My girls started around 18-22 weeks.

crowing at all...


shes only 16 weeks 2 days, or 3 months 23 days? shes not squating when i pet her... when do you think she will lay her first egg?