American serama thread!

[FishMtFarm]

If anyone is looking for seramas, I have a bunch I need to move before winter. Am NPIP and can ship.

 

[WVduckchick]

If anyone is looking for seramas, I have a bunch I need to move before winter. Am NPIP and can ship.

Congrats on your badge lady!!

 

[FishMtFarm]

Yes thank you!! It was a very pleasant surprise!

 

[Nimueh Alene]

what day do you stop turning eggs WVduckchick? Thought I wrote it down .

 

[LilJoe]

Anybody else's roosters molting their tails right now?

 

[WVduckchick]

what day do you stop turning eggs WVduckchick? Thought I wrote it down .

I don’t really have a specific time to stop turning, anywhere from day 16-18. Mine don’t normally hatch too terribly early.

 

[Nimueh Alene]

I saw a YouTube video were he stopped turning at 16..said his hatch rate increased.

I don’t really have a specific time to stop turning, anywhere from day 16-18. Mine don’t normally hatch too terribly early.

 

[Nimueh Alene]

Have any of you ever heard of a lethal gene in Serama particularly silkie Serama that causes chicks to die in Shell just before hatch. A breeder on one of my Serama facebook pages told me about it. She said that is why most breeders don't sell eggs only birds as soon as they are big enough 3-4 months. I think that's what's going on here I sold some hatching eggs to a gentleman and only half of the eggs hatched the rest died in Shell . That could that explain my 50% hatch rate with my own eggs whereas I can get 90% hatch rate on other people's Serama eggs. all my adult birds came from the same place I think they carry this lethal Gene and I don't know what to do about it

 

[LilJoe]

Have any of you ever heard of a lethal gene in Serama particularly silkie Serama that causes chicks to die in Shell just before hatch. A breeder on one of my Serama facebook pages told me about it. She said that is why most breeders don't sell eggs only birds as soon as they are big enough 3-4 months. I think that's what's going on here I sold some hatching eggs to a gentleman and only half of the eggs hatched the rest died in Shell . That could that explain my 50% hatch rate with my own eggs whereas I can get 90% hatch rate on other people's Serama eggs. all my adult birds came from the same place I think they carry this lethal Gene and I don't know what to do about it

Another lethal gene Is created by a short leg short leg cross. I'm going through this in my seramas at the moment because they all have short legs.

 

[Faraday40]

I just did a test hatch. The eggs were from birds hatched in March, so on the young side. (I know this may cause weaker chicks, but I didn't want to wait until spring.) I also had a staggered hatch but an incubator & hatcher to compensate for that.

6 eggs set
1 clear
1 quitter about 1 week
1 pipped but couldn't hatch (I'm sad & felt that I could have done something)
3 hatched

I put the oldest, strongest chick in with a broody hen at night. The hen was talking to a cold dead chick in the morning. The last 2 are in a quickly assembled brooder in my living room. (I didn't trust the hen enough to try again.) They're only 3 days old, so we're not out of the woods.
I've seen them eat/drink, so there's some hope.