American serama thread!

[chickydee64]

Love all the pictures everyone! Haubitze, congrats on the pips!!!

I'm wondering, since Hermione is hatching some of these eggs, should I put her in the brooder with the whole batch of chicks? Or should I just raise the chicks separately? I just don't want to upset Hermione, but at the same time, she is on her eggs with her "clan" 2 other females and a male.

HI,
Your question reminds me of my first Serama hatch........
I had a Roo and two hens in a pen...the girls decided to set eggs together.
I had a small box in the pen that the hens had thier eggs in.
The roo stood outside that box door for 23 days gaurding the hens.
After the hatch, he helped raise the babies........It was to sweet.
He would call them, show them how to eat and drink and sometimes set with the babies under him.
No amount of money could buy the entertainment provided by these little guys.................just love them

I have pictures and will post when I get my DSL set up.
Please let Hermione raise her chicks.she has worked very hard to hatch them...............

 

[larps1234]

Okie dokie. Thanks for the advice guys! I hear peeping coming from a bunch of eggs, including the one that pipped in the middle of the shell. I definitely wasn't going to assist within the next 24 hours, especially if he makes progress on his own. It's just that he pipped smack dab in the middle of the egg, and it worried me a little.

did any hatch?????

 

[cluck-cluck]

Wow, time does fly. I remember when she was a new born.

I know!!! And it's not just the Seramas, my eldest is in college and my middle is going to graduate high school next year! My youngest is the only one keeping me young, LOL as she is 8 years younger than her older sister.... but even she is in middle school now

Can't stop the clock, everyone just keeps getting older, and the seramas are like the blink of an eye!

HI,
Your question reminds me of my first Serama hatch........
I had a Roo and two hens in a pen...the girls decided to set eggs together.
I had a small box in the pen that the hens had thier eggs in.
The roo stood outside that box door for 23 days gaurding the hens.
After the hatch, he helped raise the babies........It was to sweet.
He would call them, show them how to eat and drink and sometimes set with the babies under him.
No amount of money could buy the entertainment provided by these little guys.................just love them

I have pictures and will post when I get my DSL set up.
Please let Hermione raise her chicks.she has worked very hard to hatch them...............

Oh wow, that's so so awesome! I'm making them larger digs, and then I'm going to let them stay together!!!

 

[larps1234]

I know!!! And it's not just the Seramas, my eldest is in college and my middle is going to graduate high school next year! My youngest is the only one keeping me young, LOL as she is 8 years younger than her older sister.... but even she is in middle school now

Can't stop the clock, everyone just keeps getting older, and the seramas are like the blink of an eye!
Oh wow, that's so so awesome! I'm making them larger digs, and then I'm going to let them stay together!!!

well, time does flyu... until your hen starts squating! then the days feel like months ... i want eggs sooo badly!

 

[jnntefend]

It turns out, I can't seem to unload my extra serama roo. Any ideas on helping him get along with the other roo? Right now I have two hens and two roosters. I know that's not a great ratio...

 

[larps1234]

It turns out, I can't seem to unload my extra serama roo. Any ideas on helping him get along with the other roo? Right now I have two hens and two roosters. I know that's not a great ratio...

The way I get new hens in the coop is like this.

1) take one roo, have someone else hold the other.

2) measur the weights of each roo. ( the biggest one might not be the strongest).

3) cover the less heavy ones face with your hand. Only exposing neck and back.

4) bring bigger Roo to smaller roo.

5) let bigger roo peck the smaller roo in the neck and back a few times (to reasure the small roo that the bigger one is dominant.)

6) sneak smaller roo in at night... Might be some fighting in the morning, but smaller one should succumb quickly. I have personally never had fighting in the morning after... Primarily because I leave the run door open. ( my coop is safely secure so is not a problem to leave coop door open.) good luck.

 

[kukupecpec]

The way I get new hens in the coop is like this.

1) take one roo, have someone else hold the other.

2) measur the weights of each roo. ( the biggest one might not be the strongest).

3) cover the less heavy ones face with your hand. Only exposing neck and back.

4) bring bigger Roo to smaller roo.

5) let bigger roo peck the smaller roo in the neck and back a few times (to reasure the small roo that the bigger one is dominant.)

6) sneak smaller roo in at night... Might be some fighting in the morning, but smaller one should succumb quickly. I have personally never had fighting in the morning after... Primarily because I leave the run door open. ( my coop is safely secure so is not a problem to leave coop door open.) good luck.

This is a really neat idea! Thanks for sharing this!

I was wondering, would this work even if there are more roos than hens? Right now I have two roos and one hen, so the old bigger roo lives inside as a house chicken. I don't trust the all together yet as the young ones are still quite young and about half Taco's size, but once they are fully grown, I wondered if that might work.

 

[fosterfun]

Just came across this thread- I didn't realize how many people have seramas Have a few questions and observations...

For those of you that have your seramas inside, we came up with a home for ours that blends in with our IKEA style furniture and they all live inside. We have gotten used to the noises!
Here is a pic of the homes. The first one is the cages next to our IKEA cabinet, which we built and filled with their tubs-we even bought their table tops to use on top of the furniture

. The second one shows the two cages on the other side, with a brooder box we built on top for our babies. The third one shows you the inside with two of our Seramas inside- the white one is Lily and she is about 14 ounces. the copper colored one in the background is copper, and he's about 17 ounces.







for those of you that are hatching them- do you notice issues that make the seramas harder to hatch? We have tried three times and have thus far not gotten any of them to get through the hatching process, though our silkies and bantam polish will survive the same incubation process. We had one actually pip, but it stalled for 30 hours and when we tried to help it, it's membrane was dry and still bloody so it didn't make it. The other 6 or 7 that we opened seemed to be fully developed, but they didn't pip or absorb their blood veins or placenta. We have about 12 more to move in to lock down tomorrow night and really need some pointers! I want these to hatch out, as we can see them moving in the eggs as of now and I want to finally have some baby seramas that we hatch out. If we don't have something to measure humidity, how do we know if it is too high or low? Any pointers are appreciated.

We have a few girls and a few roos that will not get along with ANY of our flock, no matter how we introduce them or how much space they have together. Others get along fine when they are in their outside portable cage, but when we put them together in the inside home they fight immediately! I have read some pointers on here and I haven't had success with any of them. Should I consider selling/re-homing? They are currently in a large parrot cage that is separated into different areas out in the heated coop, because they raise so much commotion inside it is too loud to stand.

Have any of you heard of Pixie Chicks? We "rescued" these birds and were told the original ones came from Pixie Chicks. I am wondering if anyone else has had experience with their chickens- we have two frizzles from them, and two babies that are both frizzled that came from one of the others, so 4 frizzled in total. Wanting any info on their quality and how true to type they are.

I have read about the silkied seramas and a few other posts where someone asks if anyone is considering attempting to get a serama ______(can't remember the bird type)- my question is, if seramas are a breed, don't they lose their pure bred status if you mix another breed with seramas to get smaller versions of them? I hope that makes sense! Were the silkied seramas derived from a serama being bred with a silkie, then back into the serama line, or just luck of the draw?

We went from having 6 silkies as of October 2012 to having over 100 chickens now, most of them rare or unusual. We are still new at the reproduction end of things and getting mixed info online, so hoping to get some help Our seramas and our Swedish Flower Hens are by far our most favorite of all the breeds, so we want to do what we can to keep them going.

God bless!
Nannie

 

[BantyChickenLuv]

Just came across this thread- I didn't realize how many people have seramas Have a few questions and observations... For those of you that have your seramas inside, we came up with a home for ours that blends in with our IKEA style furniture and they all live inside. We have gotten used to the noises! Here is a pic of the homes. The first one is the cages next to our IKEA cabinet, which we built and filled with their tubs-we even bought their table tops to use on top of the furniture

. The second one shows the two cages on the other side, with a brooder box we built on top for our babies. The third one shows you the inside with two of our Seramas inside- the white one is Lily and she is about 14 ounces. the copper colored one in the background is copper, and he's about 17 ounces. for those of you that are hatching them- do you notice issues that make the seramas harder to hatch? We have tried three times and have thus far not gotten any of them to get through the hatching process, though our silkies and bantam polish will survive the same incubation process. We had one actually pip, but it stalled for 30 hours and when we tried to help it, it's membrane was dry and still bloody so it didn't make it. The other 6 or 7 that we opened seemed to be fully developed, but they didn't pip or absorb their blood veins or placenta. We have about 12 more to move in to lock down tomorrow night and really need some pointers! I want these to hatch out, as we can see them moving in the eggs as of now and I want to finally have some baby seramas that we hatch out. If we don't have something to measure humidity, how do we know if it is too high or low? Any pointers are appreciated. We have a few girls and a few roos that will not get along with ANY of our flock, no matter how we introduce them or how much space they have together. Others get along fine when they are in their outside portable cage, but when we put them together in the inside home they fight immediately! I have read some pointers on here and I haven't had success with any of them. Should I consider selling/re-homing? They are currently in a large parrot cage that is separated into different areas out in the heated coop, because they raise so much commotion inside it is too loud to stand. Have any of you heard of Pixie Chicks? We "rescued" these birds and were told the original ones came from Pixie Chicks. I am wondering if anyone else has had experience with their chickens- we have two frizzles from them, and two babies that are both frizzled that came from one of the others, so 4 frizzled in total. Wanting any info on their quality and how true to type they are. I have read about the silkied seramas and a few other posts where someone asks if anyone is considering attempting to get a serama ______(can't remember the bird type)- my question is, if seramas are a breed, don't they lose their pure bred status if you mix another breed with seramas to get smaller versions of them? I hope that makes sense! Were the silkied seramas derived from a serama being bred with a silkie, then back into the serama line, or just luck of the draw? We went from having 6 silkies as of October 2012 to having over 100 chickens now, most of them rare or unusual. We are still new at the reproduction end of things and getting mixed info online, so hoping to get some help Our seramas and our Swedish Flower Hens are by far our most favorite of all the breeds, so we want to do what we can to keep them going. God bless! Nannie

Hi, I'm by no means a Serama expert, however Serama are notorious to hatch because of their small size. They carry the lethal gene which causes them to die at day 19 in the hatching process. It came from the Japanese Bantam's lethal leg gene, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[larps1234]

This is a really neat idea! Thanks for sharing this!

I was wondering, would this work even if there are more roos than hens? Right now I have two roos and one hen, so the old bigger roo lives inside as a house chicken. I don't trust the all together yet as the young ones are still quite young and about half Taco's size, but once they are fully grown, I wondered if that might work.

i think it would be ok! though i think male seramas get angry when somone else mates with their female... you might have to get another hen and putit next to the one that doesnt have a hen so he claims her. then i would do the process i showed! but i think it might work. oh and somthimes the dominent serama will peck the smaller one if he does somthing like eatining a warm the dominant one had in his mouth. those are just reasuring pecks... Good luck!