American serama thread!

[Granny Hatchet]

I am ! thank you. all the serama eggs were bad. the PO did a # on them . but i have these babies i thought were all white. they are starting to get color in them.

 

[clousert]

I am ! thank you. all the serama eggs were bad. the PO did a # on them . but i have these babies i thought were all white. they are starting to get color in them.

That's one of the wonderful things about serama. They change color about 4 times while maturing lol. So fun to watch all the changes. Rare to get a completely solid color in my experience. They usually always end up with some kind of markings.

 

[clousert]

I made the 6 hr round trip to the west coast of FL Tuesday night after work to pick up 5 little blue serama that a breeder had been saving for me from her hatches. I ended up coming home with 16 lol. I did give 3 of them to a friend who has been hatching every egg from her 1 pair and getting nothing but males. I sure hope she gets some girls. I have 5 that are laying age (4 hens, 1 roo) and am finally up to 2 eggs a day lol. I have upwards of 40 growing out now though. 2 are frizzled, 1 for sure roo and 1 that hatched from ladycat that I'm hoping is a hen . I have 3 pens set up for them so they can go in separate pens if they're opposite sex. Don't want to breed frizzled to frizzled. By the end of the year I should have lots of little serama eggies coming I can't wait for the silkies from ladycat to start laying! @ladycat do the silkies need to be bred back to straight feather like the frizzled? I will be sending a few of my pullets to CA next month in swap for some pheasant chicks. Looking forward to adding them to the flock also. Been a long exhausting couple of months here with all the hatching and raising babies but it is coming to a slow down. Will finally be moving lots of babies outside this weekend and opening up more room for the remaining babies that aren't quite feathered enough yet. Then will come the move to the carolinas later this year which I'm so excited about but dreading at the same time lol

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I have a few out of these that are still all white. I like white though so its ok. not sure i have seen a blue one.

 

[clousert]

I have a few out of these that are still all white. I like white though so its ok. not sure i have seen a blue one. 

You can Google search blue serama if you want to see pictures. They're very pretty. My 2 older babies are blue mottled with white spots and are both boys. Not sure how the new ones will turn out yet but looking forward to finding out

 

[ladycat]

@ladycat do the silkies need to be bred back to straight feather like the frizzled?

No, you can breed silkie to silkie to get 100% silkies.

When you breed silkie to normal feather, you'll get chicks that look like normal feather, but are carrying silkie. You can breed those splits back to silkie and get more silkies.

 

[clousert]

No, you can breed silkie to silkie to get 100% silkies.

When you breed silkie to normal feather, you'll get chicks that look like normal feather, but are carrying silkie. You can breed those splits back to silkie and get more silkies.

Thanks. I've researched with my cochins that you shouldn't breed frizzled to frizzled because the offspring will carry 2 copies of the gene making their feathers too frizzled and very brittle. I ordered some frizzled cochin chicks from a hatchery a few years back and that's how their feathers were. Nothing like my frizzled cochins now who are soft and fluffy. I decided to keep 2 boys and all the girls are straight feathered. Wasn't sure if that's how it was with the silkie gene or not so thank you for clarifying.

 

[DRGLENNON]

Just wanted to show off my new babies! I'm so happy!



This is my Cocopop pair. I just got them this afternoon and they are already getting frisky!




The second pullet is dun, it doesn't show very well in the picture but she was not in the mood for a photo shoot. She does not play well with others so it may take a few days for her to settle in.



They are from Lulin Serama. Luis and Linda were so nice and informative.

 

[clousert]

Just wanted to show off my new babies! I'm so happy! This is my Cocopop pair. I just got them this afternoon and they are already getting frisky! The second pullet is dun, it doesn't show very well in the picture but she was not in the mood for a photo shoot. She does not play well with others so it may take a few days for her to settle in. They are from Lulin Serama. Luis and Linda were so nice and informative. e

Congrats. He's beautiful

 

[DRGLENNON]

Thank You.He has a great personality too. The first pullet is laying so hopefully fertile eggs soon. Incubator warming up!