American serama thread!

[kukupecpec]

Fingers crossed for your remaining eggs. I will look forward to seeing their baby pix soon. Are all the remaining eggs Seramas?

Thanks! I'm excited. They were all serama, so lets hope they hatch! I've got a Brinsea Mini Advance so I can't fit much in there - which is very sad for me, but if I had anything bigger Id have more chickens than could fit on my whole block in a few months haha. Gotta force myself to stay small. Getting 7 BLRW eggs in February! Hoping to get one more serama batch set inbetween though... fingers crossed!

I love the soldier stance, but mine probably won't be that great when they grow up, but when they WANT to hop on your hand, when they WANT to be picked up and played with, that's just golden, isn't it? Still keeping everything crossed (had to learn to type that way!) it's a bit hard to get around, but anything for my fellow BYC'ers!!!

They are the sweetest little things! I can't wait to see what hand raising them will be like. I KNOW I won't want to put them outside... I need my own house so I can just live in a giant chicken coop....

 

[ChickenJohnJr]

Does anybody have seramas for sale? I would be interested in purchasing some as pets thank you.

 

[artsyrobin]

Quote: our house is like a chicken coop in the winter... kitchen has 3 cages of birds, livingroom 2 cages, spare bath has boaz and the hens, and the art studio has a recouperating EE, her legs are weak after a bout with crd....

here are a few pics for you

ebony takes brooding very seriously!



Gizmo




slick



monet- she is the most spoiled of them all

 

[Fuzzybird]

Btw no offense ment to anyone, this is just my personal opinion, if this is what all seramas are supposed to look like, count me out that looks very uncomfertable for the poor thing.

Quote: Oh my GOD! Is the head growing out of its tail! That has to be the most exstreme type! The is one ugly A-- bird.

 

[Aschenfire]

There's a difference between English and American Orpingtons, for example. I think some think that every single Serama should be the very extreme Ayam type...very very insanely short in the back, huge in the chest, and what I believe most breeders and the SCNA are categorizing as "Traditional" Serama. There are people breeding for the very extreme birds, and those who also like the American Serama, which are still Seramas, every bit as much as American Orpingtons are still Orpingtons.

 

[kukupecpec]

our house is like a chicken coop in the winter... kitchen has 3 cages of birds, livingroom 2 cages, spare bath has boaz and the hens, and the art studio has a recouperating EE, her legs are weak after a bout with crd....

here are a few pics for you

ebony takes brooding very seriously!



Gizmo




slick



monet- she is the most spoiled of them all

Oh geez! My husband would kill me! He could barely stand the one pair living inside. He's more gung-ho about helping me winter-proof the outside chicken coops than ANYTHING chicken related EVER lol!

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Americans have CHOSEN to rebuild the serama in a position which is much more natural for the bird. Those extreme stance birds can't even mate, for heaven's sake! They have pages and pages, in indonesian and other languages that tell you how to mate these birds.
Here in America, we like our birds to mate by themselves.

 

[Fuzzybird]

I think I got myself in a pickle. I am pretty much a beginner with hatching eggs anyway and not really the best luck either. Well here is what I did. A lady I got to know gave me 13 serama eggs. 6 of the eggs have for 2 days been sit on by the hen but the real cold front [ and it is horrilble for us in AZ, down to 23 last night] was on the way and she knew the eggs had a good chance of freezing, [ we have had this bitter weather for going on 4 days now]. So I have these 6 already started by the hen and 7 more fresh fertile eggs. I set all of these eggs last Thursday. Now on Sunday this sweet lady comes with 6 more fresh fertile eggs for me to put in my bator. OK right or wrong I did, but then geeze. What do I do now when lock down comes along? I have them on a tilting rack. Also doesn't the Serama usually hatch earlier that the larger hen eggs? Some of these eggs are really little and I so hope my stupid self didn't doom them all!.
Also For some %#$ reason the bator decided to on Sat spike to 105. I don't think is was for to long but that scares me! HELP!

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

I don't "lock down" my incubator at all and my hatch rate is through the roof. Also, my seramas eggs went all the way to day 21. I, too, was worried when my little eggs didn't hatch earlier, but they hatched along with everybody else and are just fine. The 105 is another matter and just keep your fingers crossed. hopefully it wasn't long enough to do damage.

 

[Fuzzybird]

Lorilyn what about the tilting tray?