American serama thread!

[Jessshan8]

They are beautiful.

Thank You!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Congrats !

 

[EZFarms]

She should be laying just any day now.

awesome cant wait. can i introduce them/mix them with my LF? they are inside right now and i dont want them in a coop by themselves

 

[ladycat]

I'll let someone else answer that. I plan to continue to keep mine separate.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I wouldnt mix mine. they need different temps , might get picked on. too expensive to risk it for me. with that being said, I do have a tiny OLD rooster ( I dont know what kind ) no one bothers.

 

[Jessshan8]

Congrats !      

Thanks! Have you gotten your electrical issue taken care of?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

as far as i can tell i have. it was the 6 outlet power strip. 3rd one was the charm. LOL they were all used ones.

 

[Skink]

Some people mix them very with LF since Serama think they're the biggest birds in the world, and that attitude means they get on well with birds that'll put up with it.. but I think it depends more on the LF than the Serama. If you have more domineering breeds like RIR and Leghorns, I wouldn't mix, but with a flock of sweeties I bet they'd do just fine. My rooster Chip lives with a LF cochin. He thinks very highly of her and is always trying to impress her.. all she ever does is trounce him! He never gets injured, though. Pops right back over to try another dance in ten minutes or so when he thinks she's forgotten she doesn't like him. He has never succeeded. Gotta give them bonus points for the spirit!

Speaking of, I'm very sad. I believe Chip has two copies of the Congenital Quiver/Tremor gene. He shakes terribly whenever he's excited and it seems to rapidly be getting worse. I'll never be breeding him because of this, I had plans since he's very handsome but will not now. I'm really upset that I never came across mentions of this being purposefully bred in Serama when researching the breed and deciding to get them. Only ever came across people talking about it by chance on facebook. People seem to want it because it makes the bird more "showy," but it causes degradation of multiple parts of the brain, deformations along the blood vessels like you'd find in autoimmune diseases or even rabies, and heavily reduced fertility in males. I can't for the life of me understand why someone would want that! I saw someone say it got worse in their birds as they got older.. I hope someday it becomes a topic of more visible discussion among serama enthusiasts, and that it is treated more like cross beak and less like silkied feathers.. something hope you never have, not coo over.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

ohh, I read about that too. I am sorry

 

[DRGLENNON]

Some people mix them very with LF since Serama think they're the biggest birds in the world, and that attitude means they get on well with birds that'll put up with it.. but I think it depends more on the LF than the Serama. If you have more domineering breeds like RIR and Leghorns, I wouldn't mix, but with a flock of sweeties I bet they'd do just fine. My rooster Chip lives with a LF cochin. He thinks very highly of her and is always trying to impress her.. all she ever does is trounce him! He never gets injured, though. Pops right back over to try another dance in ten minutes or so when he thinks she's forgotten she doesn't like him. He has never succeeded. Gotta give them bonus points for the spirit!

Speaking of, I'm very sad. I believe Chip has two copies of the Congenital Quiver/Tremor gene. He shakes terribly whenever he's excited and it seems to rapidly be getting worse. I'll never be breeding him because of this, I had plans since he's very handsome but will not now. I'm really upset that I never came across mentions of this being purposefully bred in Serama when researching the breed and deciding to get them. Only ever came across people talking about it by chance on facebook. People seem to want it because it makes the bird more "showy," but it causes degradation of multiple parts of the brain, deformations along the blood vessels like you'd find in autoimmune diseases or even rabies, and heavily reduced fertility in males. I can't for the life of me understand why someone would want that! I saw someone say it got worse in their birds as they got older.. I hope someday it becomes a topic of more visible discussion among serama enthusiasts, and that it is treated more like cross beak and less like silkied feathers.. something hope you never have, not coo over.

Hi, I have not read anything about the Congenital Quiver/Tremor gene. Very interesting. I hope I can find information about it.