American serama thread!

[WVduckchick]

Tj, thanks!! That makes me feel alot better for hatching 11 of 16 locked down that were shipped! 5 late death without pipping. 2 died later, one on day 8 of life, one on day 9, but I still feel very blessed and lucky!

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

This is my only survivor out of 24 serama eggs

But I'm glad I got this one.

Are you going to give him her a buddy or do you have other chicks

 

[Fluffyserama]

The moment I knew this one was going to be the only survivor I was on the phone to someone nearby who had silkie chicks hatching. I got 3.

I've seen how upset chicks are when their lonely. Plus hopefully I'll get a silkie hen or two who want to be brood mamma's next year. I have 10 serama eggs in the incubator right now showing veining on day 4. Crossing fingers I can get a least a pair out of the two hatches.

 

[nchls school]

The moment I knew this one was going to be the only survivor I was on the phone to someone nearby who had silkie chicks hatching. I got 3.

I've seen how upset chicks are when their lonely. Plus hopefully I'll get a silkie hen or two who want to be brood mamma's next year. I have 10 serama eggs in the incubator right now showing veining on day 4. Crossing fingers I can get a least a pair out of the two hatches.

Good luck to you.

 

[flockofbantams]

Hi, everyone, quick question.
I know you don't want to breed a frizzle to a frizzle. But can you breed a silked to a silked?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

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[flockofbantams]

Hi, everyone, quick question.
I know you don't want to breed a frizzle to a frizzle. But can you breed a silked to a silked?

Someone told me you can but shouldn't that its best to breed silkied to smooth

Ok thanks, I have a smooth rooster that is awesome and silked hem that is wonderful and I just got my first batch of smooth and silked chicks out of them and I was trying to figure out if I should keep any of the silked chicks that are roos.

 

[formerchickenlass]

Hi, everyone, quick question.
I know you don't want to breed a frizzle to a frizzle. But can you breed a silked to a silked?

You definitely can. And if you want to hatch more silkieds, that's the only way to do it (unless your smooth bird had a silkied parent and happens to be carrying one copy of the silkied gene from them). Silkied feathering is recessive and needs one copy of the gene from each parent for the offspring to display silkied feathering.

Frizzle is very different. It's a dominant gene. A frizzle appearance bird only has one copy of the gene, and when it gets two, the frizzling becomes too strong, too detrimental to the feather quality.

Hope that helps!

 

[formerchickenlass]

As an addendum, if you only have one silkied, you can breed it to a smooth. All offspring will be smooth, carrying one copy of the silkied gene. You can then choose the best offspring to breed back to your silkied parent and should get 50/50 silkieds and smooth feathered (silkie carriers). So that's another way to start your silkied line if you only have one or if all the ones you have are full siblings (which is not a recommended breeding).

 

[Fluffyserama]

Ok thanks, I have a smooth rooster that is awesome and silked hem that is wonderful and I just got my first batch of smooth and silked chicks out of them and I was trying to figure out if I should keep any of the silked chicks that are roos.

There is no problem breeding silkied to silkied. The silkie gene is recessive, so both parents have to carry the gene to produce silkied chicks. The chick only inherits one copy from each parent so if you breed two silkies you'll have 100% silkied chicks.
Sizzled is a dominant gene. Only one copy is needed to produce the sizzle fetheration. If a bird has two the feathers become brittle and the bird ends up bald. That's the reason people breed to smooth birds, so only one sizzle gene is present to express itself. Sizzle to smooth will give 50-50 ofspring.

some people have had issues breeding sizzle to silkied... others haven't there are other genes that can come into play like sizzle restrictor genes, but it's's way over my head to calculate out how they all could potentially interplay.