American serama thread!

[nchls school]

Thank you.

Did your hen start setting on the Tribble eggs yet?

In the past my wife has always been the one to order the eggs for me. Is there a way to give you a good review/recommendation? Since Kimmi wont be home (checking out real estate with her Mom in Tennessee) for some time, I can't have her do it.

 

[Ra_]

In the past my wife has always been the one to order the eggs for me. Is there a way to give you a good review/recommendation? Since Kimmi wont be home (checking out real estate with her Mom in Tennessee) for some time, I can't have her do it.

No, I don't think so?
Thank you though.

 

[Skink]

Humidity was fine. I actually had.more trouble keeping it down! Hatch day was very rainy and humidity was high, and too high of humidity will drown the poor things. I've not had trouble with too little humidity and am experienced in managing it.

The read out is flashing H/P at me. I will have to check the manual but I bet that has something to do with what happened.

EDIT: Can't find what that message on the display means! Emailing brinsea support. I really like this incubator and ran it for almost a year in non-stop hatches. Still, I wouldn't have expected it to break already! Their rep is better than that. I must have gotten a bum part somewhere.

 

[Sclark73]

Wow nchls-, the lil Cockerel is trying to crow this morning for the first time.Ind you he sounds like a chipmunk but dang this is the earliest I've ever had one try to start.

 

[nchls school]

Wow nchls-, the lil Cockerel is trying to crow this morning for the first time.Ind you he sounds like a chipmunk but dang this is the earliest I've ever had one try to start.

They mature much faster than other breeds. I put a three month old rooster with my hens and the eggs are fertile; the first eggs hatching this weekend. Interested in any more serama?

 

[Sclark73]

They mature much faster than other breeds. I put a three month old rooster with my hens and the eggs are fertile; the first eggs hatching this weekend. Interested in any more serama?

I may be, if I can sex them like the last 3. ;-) I could not handle more than one more Cockerel right now with the 2 lil pullets and 2 hens I already have. I have them living in my tiny house along with 30+ chicks and we are getting very crowded. Hope this new weather is here to stay so I can get started on my chicken addition.

 

[nchls school]

I may be, if I can sex them like the last 3. ;-) I could not handle more than one more Cockerel right now with the 2 lil pullets and 2 hens I already have. I have them living in my tiny house along with 30+ chicks and we are getting very crowded. Hope this new weather is here to stay so I can get started on my chicken addition.

I have chicks hatching this weekend and really have no wish to keep them which I'll sell. I have a month old pullet for sale; quite small-two roosters to give away-two roosters for sale-one five month old pullet that should be laying soon to sell also.

If interested in any of them PM.

 

[Ra_]

If anyone felt a disturbance in The Force, it's because 2 Tribbles hatched today
(I'm mixing my metaphors)

I put a half dozen sketchy eggs in a nesting box for some reason I can no longer recall.
Gyda began setting but she or Deanna or both of them kept laying.
I discarded some eggs, then they BOTH decided to cram into the box.
They managed to hatch a couple of chicks, desite the chaos.

I took advantage of this teamwork to remove Deanna & the 2 chicks
and let Gyda continue to sit on any remaining eggs.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Mine love to dig. I don't see it as a problem.
My tiny little micro Dorothy tunneled her way out of the enclosure twice!

Yes, they dig...but I do not think the holes they dig would be as bad as what the larger breeds do.

I figure they dig but thinking the holes won't be as deep & big, hoping anyway. I need to move out off the City to the Country Thanks for replying

 

[nchls school]

If anyone felt a disturbance in The Force, it's because 2 Tribbles hatched today
(I'm mixing my metaphors)

I put a half dozen sketchy eggs in a nesting box for some reason I can no longer recall.
Gyda began setting but she or Deanna or both of them kept laying.
I discarded some eggs, then they BOTH decided to cram into the box.
They managed to hatch a couple of chicks, desite the chaos.

I took advantage of this teamwork to remove Deanna & the 2 chicks
and let Gyda continue to sit on any remaining eggs.

I don't know if this will help. Possibly you've already thought about it or there simply isn't room. A few times I've had hens use the same nest and go broody about the same time. What I have done is set another nest, the same as the first, right next to the original. Each hen then had a nest of their own. Sometimes the hens would switch boxes, but that hardly mattered. With a nest of eggs in front of them they no longer crammed into the same nest box. The resulting hatch was much better than if they'd continued with the same nest.