American serama thread!

[nchls school]

A question-Is there literature available that shows the various traits for serama and the genetics of the traits. Breeding these little birds would be so much easier if it were known what is dominant, recessive, incomplete dominant, multi gene, and codominant.

Otherwise breeding is just a shot in the dark and no way of knowing which bird to pair with which bird.

 

[prizepete]

A question-Is there literature available that shows the various traits for serama and the genetics of the traits. Breeding these little birds would be so much easier if it were known what is dominant, recessive, incomplete dominant, multi gene, and codominant.

Otherwise breeding is just a shot in the dark and no way of knowing which bird to pair with which bird.

i would love to know about this too... I have looked everywhere...

 

[MadamPoofyBrow]

Spaz's wings are getting longer! They're beautiful stripy and super silkied!

 

[flockofbantams]

Spaz's wings are getting longer! They're beautiful stripy and super silkied!

Yay!!! Grow little spaz, grow!!!

 

[Ra_]

Spaz's wings are getting longer! They're beautiful stripy and super silkied!

There is a characteristic in all of my roosters.
They all have a patch of white on their wings.
Every single male, silkied or smooth, regardless of color or pattern, has the white patch.
No hens have the marking.

 

[nchls school]

i would love to know about this too... I have looked everywhere...

I have spent many hours looking. What I find is confusing and...just does not make sense. Rather like someone telling what someone else said that heard it from... And then modifier genes?? I will never understand why something can't be written without all that educated...

I guess it boils down to no one knows. If you find something please pass it on.

 

[nchls school]

There is a characteristic in all of my roosters.
They all have a patch of white on their wings.
Every single male, silkied or smooth, regardless of color or pattern, has the white patch.
No hens have the marking.

If that white patch shows in your chicks...An early beacon of sex. That would be something most beneficial when you don't wish to raise roosters.

 

[Ra_]

When you're breeding two Serama, the surprises that you get from them are the best part.

 

[Ra_]

If that white patch shows in your chicks...An early beacon of sex. That would be something most beneficial when you don't wish to raise roosters.

I know but all their colors change so much, with the exception of the flight feathers,
that I end up just guessing their sexes by their combs.
Sometimes a beta male will fool me into thinking he's a pullet for months.

 

[nchls school]

When you're breeding two Serama, the surprises that you get from them are the best part.

True, but it can be a huge disappointment too.