American serama thread!

[froggiesheins]

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Cara, OHMYGAWD what a beautiful bird!!!!

My mouth dropped open when I saw the first picture!! Love the color too!!!! Boy Captn Jack sure knows how to make em'.........
I have a STOOPID question, why do you pull the sickle feathers?

 

[SunValleySeramas]

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Cara, OHMYGAWD what a beautiful bird!!!!

My mouth dropped open when I saw the first picture!! Love the color too!!!! Boy Captn Jack sure knows how to make em'.........
I have a STOOPID question, why do you pull the sickle feathers?

Well I do I guess so they loko nice and grow in nice and full before i show them, I will pull broken or questionable feathers aprox three months before a show the the bird has time to grow in new ones!!

 

[froggiesheins]

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Cara, OHMYGAWD what a beautiful bird!!!!

My mouth dropped open when I saw the first picture!! Love the color too!!!! Boy Captn Jack sure knows how to make em'.........
I have a STOOPID question, why do you pull the sickle feathers?

Well I do I guess so they loko nice and grow in nice and full before i show them, I will pull broken or questionable feathers aprox three months before a show the the bird has time to grow in new ones!!

OH THATS why.....it takes 3 months to regrow a feather--I learned something new today and its only 9:46AM!

 

[SunnyCalifornia]

I think Gordon, my roo, is molting his tail right now. I've been noticing a few missing feathers, and some on the ground. Maybe when they grow back, he'll actually get some sickles!!!

Is there a food that Seramas like that hastens feather growth? I've heard BOSS, buy my banties wont eat it.

 

[froggiesheins]

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I have 2 molting hens....GAWD they are like having the worst PMS I have ever seen!

 

[gumbii]

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I have 2 molting hens....GAWD they are like having the worst PMS I have ever seen!

LOL...


so that's what's wrong with my hens... they're cry babies and all moody... jeez... and they have no tails... sigh...

 

[birdmaniac3000]

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Can't wait to see some pics of your oegbs.....this is what you will get if you X them;

blue wheaten to blue wheaten sport = 50% blue wheaten 50% blue wheaten sport

blue wheaten sport to blue wheaten sport = 100% blue wheaten sport

blue wheaten to Blue wheaten = 50% blue wheaten, 25% blue wheaten sport, 25% wheaten

Why didn't you call me when you go buy your birds???? I have always been a big fan of oegb, specially the spangled variety.

if u want joey u can come with me to gumbii's place as i am going to go get some birds from him and ur advise would be well appreciated as i am getting into oegb and seramas.

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

SO my 4 year old has become quite the serama snob. She really only wants to hold or play with the seramas. We have an indoor brooder box and it has a few serama, silkies, and a few mutt chicks. Well I was trying to decide who was big enough to go into the grow out pen. There was a mutt chick that I couldn't find in the box. I was panicing that maybe, just maybe, I had left the lid open one day and a dog got it, I was frantically searching for it and starting to panic. I called my 4 year old in to help me and she pointed to a certain chick and I said no that is one of the seramas. She said "mom that is way to big, member(remember) seramas are really little." I looked and sure enough she was right. How is that she can keep them all straight and I can't even tell the seramas apart from the full size chicks. It has been a long day, but really!!

 

[SunnyCalifornia]

Great story!

 

[ruthless]

Anyone raise their incubator hatched chicks on sand? I am really thinking about trying it with some 2 week olds. There are so many of them that they get the tank dirty super quick.
Plan on moving them to a plastic bottomed guinea pig cage and put sand inthe bottom. That way I can just scoop the poop, I hope. Any suggestions or comments? Thanks