American serama thread!

[homeschoolin momma]

Ok here's the siblings to Faraday's gray chick.

And to show the huge size comparison

Not the best pictures. The white one hates being messed with and likes to be near Phoe. It took so long yo get her to bond with them, they are no where near snuggly.

 

[Faraday40]

Ok here's the siblings to Faraday's gray chick.
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And to show the huge size comparison
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Not the best pictures. The white one hates being messed with and likes to be near Phoe. It took so long yo get her to bond with them, they are no where near snuggly.

I think you have a pair.
A golden female & white silkied serama male. I bet he'll look just like Teddy!

 

[Faraday40]

I'd say smooth for Goldie there.

Confirmed.
White & Gold are smooth feathered & Light still looks like silkied feathers. It's crazy how fast they change.

No change in the gray 5 wk old yet. Comb color is not as dark as its brother that you have.

Cookie's a great mama, though. When she walks up to me she calls the chicks to come over for treats. I can pick them up. This was helpful today when a hawk swooped by. The chickens all scattered & 2 were hiding in a garden. Cookie & the other 3 made it to the run. Although Cookie was calling out to them, the chicks were smart enough not to cross the open area in between. I was able to pick them up & put them inside the run with the others.

 

[Faraday40]

I wrote about my son's serama "Coge" in another thread, but thought i'd share here too.

Coge:

She's very spoiled and loves to be held. That's no surprise. She just started laying about 4-5 days ago, and it's been interesting. She's been hopping the fence & I keep finding her in the garage or screened room or any place other than the chicken yard. I really don't want to clip her wing and got tired of throwing her back over the fence. To contain her I put her in a mini coop which currently has some 4-6 wk old chicks in it. That's where she laid her 1st egg. When done, she started beating up the babies until i took her out. So this has been the pattern for the last 4-5 days.

It turns out that I'm her servant. She either comes to my garage or back door and waits for me to carry & place her into the nest box. When finished, she summons me to let her out by making the little pullets squawk.

I keep trying to teach her to use the main coop with no sucess. Once the chicks are sold, the bantams will be moving back into the little coop, so I suppose this won't be a problem for long.

Coge's eggs are so tiny:.
Here's her egg next to another serama egg & an orpington pullet egg.

 

[Compost King]

I just gave these 3 away, took their pictures to show the person I gave them away to. Figured I would share them. 5 week old cockerels, alls I have are their sisters for them to breed with or pair them up with to sell so I figured its best to give them away. Next batch of Seramas will have different parentage so I can start keeping the males for either breeding or to pair up and sell them.

 

[homeschoolin momma]

I think you have a pair.
A golden female & white silkied serama male. I bet he'll look just like Teddy!

You think the white one is a silkie? Im not seeing paintbrush feathers though.

Except maybe in the tail

Its quite smaller compared to its two siblings and seems....sickly in comparison. Like its just not growing well.

 

[Faraday40]

You think the white one is a silkie? Im not seeing paintbrush feathers though.
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Except maybe in the tail
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Its quite smaller compared to its two siblings and seems....sickly in comparison. Like its just not growing well.

Oh. Perhaps it's not silkied.
The chest feathers looked like fluffy hairs in this pic:

My seramas have been coming in all diff sizes.
Here's the gray (sibling of Phoe's chicks) on the left. On the right is a white silkied serama who hatched 7-16 (almost 4 weeks older). Five weeks ago, I slipped her under Cookie (broody hen) along with some newly hatched chicks. The white serama was the biggest chick for about 2 days.

Only partly because she's small. Besides the gray serama, her adopted younger siblings are 3 Orpingtons. It's funny to watch them all together. Cookie's a great mama, so I don't have to worry about them.

 

[Faraday40]

Well, I got this chick's gender wrong.



Here was the chick at 3.5 weeks. I thought female.

5+ wks. (At this point I began to ? my former prediction, but was hopeful for a female.)

Yesterday 7.5 weeks:

@homeschoolin momma
Do yours still look like a pair?

 

[Rasputin66]

Can I see yall's coop setups? How do you house your Seramas? I want to get some and I'm not sure if I can just put them in with the big girls long term. I did have one who got along great with the big girls, but since then I've heard they need special care. Where do I start?

 

[Faraday40]

Look what I found in the run today.

Here it is next to a "real egg."

As you can see, DS is so in love with his serama, "Coge." She's been laying for about a week. The tiny egg may have come from her. Perhaps it was her 1st egg or she had an opps.