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well most of the time she is in a cage with her mate (or out with me) but we have dogs who like to eat birds so i have to be careful. i might see if i have some scrap wood or something i can use to build something. i plan on building breeding pens in the spring for bigger birds but also using them for smaller bantams as well including serama
 
Haven't been on here in a while... Zippy seems pretty big for a Serama to me. She's so goofy looking, but she's got to be close to laying with that red face!
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I just found a picture of Smoky.
Smoky & Springtime were 2 smooth-feathered incubator babies that I stuck underneath Peanut when they hatched.
He raised them for a month just like a hen.



My roos used to have so much brown in them.
I've practically got it bred out now.
 
nikki1496 said:
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.
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Nikki1496, SO SORRY you are having a bad experience with seramas and shipped eggs. :(
I pretty much know all the breeders on the West coast and would be more than happy to talk to you and see where/who/what the problem might be. Shipped serama eggs are VERY VERY hard to hatch to begin with and then in a 'bator even harder. You cannot "make" a hen go broody sorry to say. There are SO MANY variables with seramas and being broody also.
Are you looking for seramas to show OR just for fun?
Seramas are grouped this way: SQ, culls (pet quality) and BREEDER quality. Some birds have the abilty/genetics to be both SQ and breeder quality. Most breeders do not sell their breeder quality birds because that is where their SQ are coming from. Being SQ does not necessarily mean he/she will be a good breeder quality...generally speaking your bigger hens that are SQ/BQ are the better egg layers.
How close are you to Modesto? There is going to be the NATIONALS APA/ABA AND a TT shoew there on Jan 30th, so it is a great place to meet breeders etc. I also will be there talking shop.

Nikki, II also can PM you if ya like and answer any questions U might have, :)
 
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