American serama thread!

[JulieNKC]

My last hatch of serama babies. There are a few d'uccles and one call duckling in there with them. I can't wait for them to start growing up and feathering out, and I have no idea how I'm going to pick which ones I want to keep to grow out, lol.
I sold my d'uccles, I like the serama better and want to concentrate on them. So my serama got moved out of their pen and are now free rangers. They are loving it, and doing really good. I don't have many large fowl chickens, but they also share the coop and yard with a pair of geese and call ducks.


And, here are a few of my favorites from my older chicks. The darker laced one also has white mottling starting to come in.

 

[JulieNKC]

That is what I was thinking when I started researching them a few months ago. I ordered a diaper online from a lady but I think once I get it I'll be able to design my own. It's nice to have somewhere to start though.
I'm actually working on adding frill to my chicken diapers. I covered some snaps with cute buttons and I want to add bows or flowers and cute trim to the outside. I'd like to get a digital copy of my pattern sometime in the next couple months for those who can sew and want to make them for their own birdies.

If you want some goslings, let me know! I would be happy to bring them up when I come for the serama!

What a cutie! And such long legs, what breed is she? She looks a lot like the canada gosling I had. I love goslings, they are the sweetest babies ever. Here's a couple of mine. They are just barnyard mixes, mostly embden, but they are already almost adult serama size at a week old, lol.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

And, here are a few of my favorites from my older chicks. The darker laced one also has white mottling starting to come in.

Cute chicks and pretty birds! Do you find the Serama roosters get along well together, or is it the luck of the draw like other chickens?

 

[Fuzzybird]

Fuzzybird - i cant help but laugh every time i see your profile picture! i laugh because that little chick looks like hes having the time of his
life!

Thanks Larps. I love that old girl. I am worried she is on the way out.

She hasn't looked or acted right for awhile. I got her a mate Banner and have seen them breed several times the past 2 months but no eggs yet. She eats but doesn't seem to have that good appetite she has had. She is a survive of 3 eye infections and 2 dog maulings. I worry that maybe the last mauling hurt her inside and something is wrong? This year she doesn't love the baby turklets but Banner is taking care of them and it is so cute! Blue Bell is about 5 years old. I didn't think that was old for a turkey?

 

[cluck-cluck]

Aww, I hope she perks up, Fuzzybird!

Such cute birds, JulieNKC!

 

[JulieNKC]

Cute chicks and pretty birds! Do you find the Serama roosters get along well together, or is it the luck of the draw like other chickens?

Mine were raised together from chicks, and get along well. Before I sold the d'uccles I left the pen door open and they must have fought with the d'uccle roo a bit, they all had marks on their combs from it but no major damage.

 

[larps1234]

Thanks Larps. I love that old girl. I am worried she is on the way out.

She hasn't looked or acted right for awhile. I got her a mate Banner and have seen them breed several times the past 2 months but no eggs yet. She eats but doesn't seem to have that good appetite she has had. She is a survive of 3 eye infections and 2 dog maulings. I worry that maybe the last mauling hurt her inside and something is wrong? This year she doesn't love the baby turklets but Banner is taking care of them and it is so cute! Blue Bell is about 5 years old. I didn't think that was old for a turkey.

WOW! 5 years? mabe its time catching up with her...

 

[kukupecpec]

i love the idea of having chicken diapers! but i fear they will smell too much! and i dont want to put all that chicken poop in the washing machine. is there another way to clean it?

When it starts to stink (usually 3-4 hours) I change them. You can't smell mine at all unless you put the poop cup right up your nose until they have one of those really wet cecal poops. Those things stink like CRAZY and you will KNOW it is changing time. That is usually the 3-4 smell I use as my changing timer.
I dump the cup contents into the toilet - if the poop was all solid I just pop the diaper back on the bird - if there was wet poop I rinse the cup out in the sink after dumping the chunks - if the cup smells, AFTER rinsing, I put it in a linens bag in the washing machine and it does just fine. I only wash them with towel or jeans loads though just to be safe, but nothing has come out smelly or caused any washer problems (as long as you put it in the little mesh bag so the straps and things don't get stuck or caught anywhere).

How did I miss this cutie! OMgosh, so cute!!!

Don't tell me you're getting tired of making diapers already!!! BTW, I just had an idea. My big roosters who have to live in the house, would look so CUTE in diapers made to look like overalls, don't you think? I'm gonna have to try to make diapers one more time. I actually thought of this, because I keep thinking of mother goose when I see them in their diapers, and because you got a goose! ROFL

Spring time is getting my birds all acting weird. First, my leghorn (white leghorn hatched from Trader Joe eggs) The commercial type of bird that IS NOT supposed to go broody, has been broody in the nest box for 3 days! I just keep taking the eggs away from her, but I want her to STOP! Any help is appreciated, LOL

And another weird thing... Ok, my Serama Hermione, as I've been reporting, has been sitting on eggs. The last time I looked, she seemed to have lost all her original eggs, they looked all new and pretty clear, while the ones I set in the incubator were way farther along. I also noticed that they didn't have an H on them anymore. So last night, I see all three ladies doing the broody sit, though the other two were on the coop floor. I lifted Luna, she had nothing under her. I lifted Harriet and she has an old Hermione egg with an H on it under her! Plus, I candled it and it was MOVING inside! Where the heck did it come from, what are these girls pulling? This is just too weird!!!

Anyway, I'm building a new indoor coop for them, which I hope to install today, so that lockdown can commence!

No way!!!! I am having a diaper blast! Just starting to make thing even cuter. BUT I don't know anything about geese, and my chicken diapers don't fit her gosling body well enough to keep the poop in so I ordered one to use as a guide to design my own. I think a full grown goose would be just fine in the chicken design because they have a real tail unlike my little fuzzbutt gosling (which is the reason chick diapers are so difficult - HOWEVER I have officially designed a chicken diaper!!!! But Serama's have to be like 4 weeks old before they are big enough for it to work - but it's designed to change with them as they grow up until they are ready for a real one, though they still need two different sizes of the "Grow out diaper" before they are big enough for a full size one. This chick design works on any age full size chick though, but I wouldn't use it until they are a week just for the sake of pasty butt).

If you need some jean, I have a bunch of jean squares from a blanket. I was planning on using some for diapers, but I have a crap ton lol

here's my little baby his name is coco lol

He is so handsome!!! Hoy cow!!!!

My last hatch of serama babies. There are a few d'uccles and one call duckling in there with them. I can't wait for them to start growing up and feathering out, and I have no idea how I'm going to pick which ones I want to keep to grow out, lol.
I sold my d'uccles, I like the serama better and want to concentrate on them. So my serama got moved out of their pen and are now free rangers. They are loving it, and doing really good. I don't have many large fowl chickens, but they also share the coop and yard with a pair of geese and call ducks.


And, here are a few of my favorites from my older chicks. The darker laced one also has white mottling starting to come in.

WOW!!!!! How do you get so many to hatch? Are they all from your own birds?
I have only had two Serama ever hatch out of about 50 eggs total. I am getting some from Bhep next monday though =D

What a cutie! And such long legs, what breed is she? She looks a lot like the canada gosling I had. I love goslings, they are the sweetest babies ever. Here's a couple of mine. They are just barnyard mixes, mostly embden, but they are already almost adult serama size at a week old, lol.

She is a Toulouse. I am so excited about this new gosling adventure! I have always wanted geese, so this is a total dream come true.
Emdens?! REALLY? well if you ever have any more... I will take one in a heart beat! After doing all my research I decided on Emden and Toulouse as my favorite, but the Emden are really my FAV favorite, I love the white. And the monsterous size ha

Thanks Larps. I love that old girl. I am worried she is on the way out.

She hasn't looked or acted right for awhile. I got her a mate Banner and have seen them breed several times the past 2 months but no eggs yet. She eats but doesn't seem to have that good appetite she has had. She is a survive of 3 eye infections and 2 dog maulings. I worry that maybe the last mauling hurt her inside and something is wrong? This year she doesn't love the baby turklets but Banner is taking care of them and it is so cute! Blue Bell is about 5 years old. I didn't think that was old for a turkey?

Wow 5 years? That seems old to me, but then again I know nothing about Turkeys. Can they live with your chickens? I would love to get one if it didn't require anything extra beyond what I already do for my chickens. I also have no where else to put one ha.

 

[ChknObsessedANG]

My Serama rooster, Duke, has had 2 episodes of either seizures or strokes in the last 12 hours.
I dont really know how old he is but I am thinking he doesn't have long before he will pass. I am so sad for him!!
Here he is in my arms just now as I held him thru his episode again.

 

[JulieNKC]

When it starts to stink (usually 3-4 hours) I change them. You can't smell mine at all unless you put the poop cup right up your nose until they have one of those really wet cecal poops. Those things stink like CRAZY and you will KNOW it is changing time. That is usually the 3-4 smell I use as my changing timer.
I dump the cup contents into the toilet - if the poop was all solid I just pop the diaper back on the bird - if there was wet poop I rinse the cup out in the sink after dumping the chunks - if the cup smells, AFTER rinsing, I put it in a linens bag in the washing machine and it does just fine. I only wash them with towel or jeans loads though just to be safe, but nothing has come out smelly or caused any washer problems (as long as you put it in the little mesh bag so the straps and things don't get stuck or caught anywhere).
No way!!!! I am having a diaper blast! Just starting to make thing even cuter. BUT I don't know anything about geese, and my chicken diapers don't fit her gosling body well enough to keep the poop in so I ordered one to use as a guide to design my own. I think a full grown goose would be just fine in the chicken design because they have a real tail unlike my little fuzzbutt gosling (which is the reason chick diapers are so difficult - HOWEVER I have officially designed a chicken diaper!!!! But Serama's have to be like 4 weeks old before they are big enough for it to work - but it's designed to change with them as they grow up until they are ready for a real one, though they still need two different sizes of the "Grow out diaper" before they are big enough for a full size one. This chick design works on any age full size chick though, but I wouldn't use it until they are a week just for the sake of pasty butt).

If you need some jean, I have a bunch of jean squares from a blanket. I was planning on using some for diapers, but I have a crap ton lol
He is so handsome!!! Hoy cow!!!!
WOW!!!!! How do you get so many to hatch? Are they all from your own birds?
I have only had two Serama ever hatch out of about 50 eggs total. I am getting some from Bhep next monday though =D
She is a Toulouse. I am so excited about this new gosling adventure! I have always wanted geese, so this is a total dream come true.
Emdens?! REALLY? well if you ever have any more... I will take one in a heart beat! After doing all my research I decided on Emden and Toulouse as my favorite, but the Emden are really my FAV favorite, I love the white. And the monsterous size ha
Wow 5 years? That seems old to me, but then again I know nothing about Turkeys. Can they live with your chickens? I would love to get one if it didn't require anything extra beyond what I already do for my chickens. I also have no where else to put one ha.

I love my geese. They are so friendly and personable, they mow your grass for you, make good babysitters when it isn't breeding season, etc, lol. I'm hoping since the gander is mixed(embden/toulouse mix) I will get a gray baby to keep, I had an awful time deciding what goose breed too, lol. I love my embden, especially in the sun when she's all clean and sparkly white but I want a gray goose too. If you feel like trying to hatch some, I would be happy to send you 2-3 eggs, just pay shipping.

I'd even throw in some serama if they would come off their egg strike. They don't appreciate the freezing temps it's been getting to at night, and haven't laid in a week!
My serama eggs hatch pretty good for me. I had about 4 out of 50 from shipped eggs hatch, but have gotten about 90% to hatch from my own eggs.
My goosies a few months ago.