American serama thread!

[sandiTX]

are they serama? did he purchase them as serama?

Yes Seramas

 

[pamc13]

Yes Seramas

Thank you !!

I am thinking that certain people in my area are sending me emails talking trash because they want to be the only ones selling serama out here or maybe they are just jealous that my birds are so good looking !!

 

[artsyrobin]

their legs are too short for OEGB, seems the backs may be a little long, but sure look serama to me

 

[flockofbantams]

I just got a pair of class C seramas. My hen looks like ur hens type wise (short legs and all) my rooster is pretty close but my too has a shorter back too. But if I had to compare your to my serama I'd say serama too.

 

[darkbluespace]

Calling all serama experts

I have a pair of birds, bought from 2 different breeders, both who have stated that these are serama and they were sold to us a such. I breed them. I try to sell the chicks, as serama of course and lately on cl I have been getting very hateful people exclaiming that they are not serama but old English game bantams. I do not want to deceive anyone, I just want to sell my birds. can someone please tell me if these are indeed serama or not, thanks in advance

In my years of selling things regularly on craigslist, it has happened once or twice that one unstable person decided to harass me for some unknown reason. One person can email you from different emails and give you the impression that there is some consensus on their perspective when really it is just one person messing with you. I am betting that is what is going on and I would totally ignore it. I doubt anyone else is thinking your birds are not Seramas.

 

[froggiesheins]

Calling all serama experts I have a pair of birds, bought from 2 different breeders, both who have stated that these are serama and they were sold to us a such. I breed them. I try to sell the chicks, as serama of course and lately on cl I have been getting very hateful people exclaiming that they are not serama but old English game bantams. I do not want to deceive anyone, I just want to sell my birds. can someone please tell me if these are indeed serama or not, thanks in advance

They are at best pet quality seramas, but the long backs and the white legs are very suggestive of OEGB in the mix somewhere along the line. They ARE cute as a button and for pet quality that is all that is needed, cute and friendly! :c

 

[emrldgrn1]

Please if anyone can answer this question I would be grateful.

I hatched some eggs about 2 years ago from a very sweet lady on here who lives not far from me. She has frizzles and silkies in her flock and I have no idea what cages or crosses my eggs came from, however all the chicks that hatched were smooth normal feathered chicks. I raised them and kept several to add to my breeding stock. All of a sudden in this latest hatch I have three chicks that look silkie. Is is possible for silkie to be recessive, skipping the parent stock and manifesting in the offspring?

Above is an example of one of them with its hatch mate to compare too.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Yes, the silkie genes are recessive. It takes one gene from each parent to get the silkied feathers. We have 5 smooth hens and 1 smooth rooster and ended up with 2 out of 9 silkied chicks. We know for sure the rooster is split for the gene, but don't know which hen/s.

 

[froggiesheins]

Yes, the silkie genes are recessive.  It takes one gene from each parent to get the silkied feathers.  We have 5 smooth hens and 1 smooth rooster and ended up with 2 out of 9 silkied chicks.  We know for sure the rooster is split for the gene, but don't know which hen/s.

X'2

 

[emrldgrn1]

Oh my. I have two roosters and five hens. I think I can narrow it down to one of the two newest hens as I didn't get silkies befor I added them to the flock. Should I keep the silkies and add them to the breeding stock? I have never done anything except smooth and focused on improving unique colors on a and b class sizes.