American serama thread!

[nchls school]

Quote: Thank you for your reply. Such strange birds and interesting. A couple of weeks ago I put a different rooster with my serama hens; he has never been with hens as an adult. Such a gentle bird-and completely nonaggressive towards the others as long as they don't get aggressive with him. This rooster is never the aggressor, but he won't back down if attacked either. I was a bit worried he'd be rough with the young chicks. I need not have worried. I see the chicks crowded around him often and not once have I seen him peck at the chicks. Instead he breaks up food and calls them to come and get it. At first I thought he was calling for the hens, but no, he was calling for the chicks. Rather fun to watch them scramble to get what the rooster had, grabbing the food right from the rooster's beak.

 

[Ra_]

I had 2 chicks hatch in the incubator years ago. I put them right in with Peanut, my first Silkied roo, when he was very young himself. For a whole month, he raised them just like a hen.
Then he started trying to mate with them so I gave him a girlfriend.
That's him in my avatar too.

 

[nchls school]

I had 2 chicks hatch in the incubator years ago. I put them right in with Peanut, my first Silkied roo, when he was very young himself. For a whole month, he raised them just like a hen.
Then he started trying to mate with them so I gave him a girlfriend.
That's him in my avatar too.

Serama-really neat little birds. Peanut is a beautiful rooster.

 

[TJChickens]

I had 2 chicks hatch in the incubator years ago. I put them right in with Peanut, my first Silkied roo, when he was very young himself. For a whole month, he raised them just like a hen. Then he started trying to mate with them so I gave him a girlfriend. That's him in my avatar too.

I love the pictures you take! Cutest birds ever

 

[nchls school]

I love the pictures you take! Cutest birds ever

X 2. I've seen the picture before and it always makes me smile. The world needs more to smile about. My serama make for many smiles. My other birds/pets too.

 

[Ra_]

Thank you

 

[nchls school]

So very beautiful. I'm hoping to get some silkied eggs sometime soon. If the weather wasn't so cold…One of my silkie hens is going broody and it seems a shame to not let her have some chicks.

 

[EZFarms]

Alright this is getting annoying. ive tried EVERYTHING dry hatching/non dry hatching, temp changes(higher and lower) turning them more/less and still NOTHING. Hens wont brood and i have no other small hens that will brood. i have all of two hens and to roos one hen cant lay because of size. All the eggs die at the same age (day or two before hatch) i was given unbreedable birds. this makes me not even want to continue with serama. Breeders try and pawn off their "trash" birds to people who cant afford their $400 champion birds then wonder why there arent many younger people doing this. its because you 'Give' **** birds. what am i expected to do when they get older and closer to dying? just buy new birds? no i wanted to hatch offspring but im to the point of just giving up hatching all together and that really saddens me because i was really looking forward to hatching and having serama babies but no instead i have good show birds,a hen who cant lay,a rooster who has seizures and one 'good' hen who lays every few days. *steps off soapbox* my rant for the day.

 

[nchls school]

Alright this is getting annoying. ive tried EVERYTHING dry hatching/non dry hatching, temp changes(higher and lower) turning them more/less and still NOTHING. Hens wont brood and i have no other small hens that will brood. i have all of two hens and to roos one hen cant lay because of size. All the eggs die at the same age (day or two before hatch) i was given unbreedable birds. this makes me not even want to continue with serama. Breeders try and pawn off their "trash" birds to people who cant afford their $400 champion birds then wonder why there arent many younger people doing this. its because you 'Give' **** birds. what am i expected to do when they get older and closer to dying? just buy new birds? no i wanted to hatch offspring but im to the point of just giving up hatching all together and that really saddens me because i was really looking forward to hatching and having serama babies but no instead i have good show birds,a hen who cant lay,a rooster who has seizures and one 'good' hen who lays every few days. *steps off soapbox* my rant for the day.

Have you tried just leaving the eggs in the nest? When I want a particular hen to go broody I provide a nest box the hen will not have to share. For instance, I have a serama hen laying her eggs in a nest box on the counter in the bird room. The other hens that are laying eggs can not get to the serama's nest; silkies-can't fly. I'm leaving the eggs in the nest.
This will be the third time brooding since October. I have done this repeatedly with numerous hens and all have gone broody. When the weather was very hot and humid I collected the eggs and replaced them with dummy eggs. How old is your hen? Have you tried giving her crushed eggs shells?

 

[EZFarms]

yeah ive tried leaving them for her and her rooster goes in and kicks them out OR she forgets about them and they go bad so i gave up on getting her to brood. and yes she has free choice crushed egg shells for calicum. shes going on i think 2?