American serama thread!

[Faraday40]

Did cupcake get to stay?

She's here so far. We need to get the number down before winter. I have no breeding plans for her next year, so she's on the "non-essential" list. However, she's pretty & the closest I have to a buff orp. (We seem to have every orp color but buff. LOL) She's great eye candy, looks out for the bantams, & the kids of course love her, so I'm not in a hurry to sell her. If enough other birds get sold, then Cupcake may stay.

 

[Nimueh Alene]

The Power has been out for hours. I have Serama chicks stuffed in my clothes keeping them warm. So far it's been a long and sleepless night.

 

[Nimueh Alene]

Plus my incubators are full with hatching eggs my neighbor bought off eBay... BCM, AMERAUCANA AND CREAM LEGBAR..I Told her the risk of shipped eggs and the possibility of no eggs hatching so. Her electricity is out too. Might be a awkward call tomorrow morning and a lessoned learned for me, don't incubate eggs for anyone other than myself. .

 

[Nimueh Alene]

She's here so far. We need to get the number down before winter. I have no breeding plans for her next year, so she's on the "non-essential" list. However, she's pretty & the closest I have to a buff orp. (We seem to have every orp color but buff. LOL) She's great eye candy, looks out for the bantams, & the kids of course love her, so I'm not in a hurry to sell her. If enough other birds get sold, then Cupcake may stay.

I had a similar situation with my egg layers. I only needed 4-5 but had to order 15. Grew them out to 3.5 months it's hard to let them go. I kept my Sapphire gem 2, my rocks barred and white and a Asian black ,she was the first to lay at 16 weeks. Culling /rehoming isn't high on my list of favorite thing to do .I feel your pain about Cupcake .

 

[WVduckchick]

Plus my incubators are full with hatching eggs my neighbor bought off eBay... BCM, AMERAUCANA AND CREAM LEGBAR..I Told her the risk of shipped eggs and the possibility of no eggs hatching so. Her electricity is out too. Might be a awkward call tomorrow morning and a lessoned learned for me, don't incubate eggs for anyone other than myself. .

Hopefully your power wasn’t out for long. A few hours won’t ruin a hatch. Remember hens leave eggs daily, some for short times, but some for hours at a time. Even in cold temps. So don’t panic. They should be fine!

 

[WVduckchick]

I think I finally got one group of all pullets. I believe these 5 may all be girls, and 4 are silkied.
But from Carrie’s quad, three of them are male.

 

[Nimueh Alene]

I lost Bayou, he was trapped under the Brinsea brooder plate leg . .have no idea how that happened.

 

[Nimueh Alene]

Hopefully your power wasn’t out for long. A few hours won’t ruin a hatch. Remember hens leave eggs daily, some for short times, but some for hours at a time. Even in cold temps. So don’t panic. They should be fine!

They looked good at candling. Even the duck eggs!

 

[WVduckchick]

I lost Bayou, he was trapped under the Brinsea brooder plate leg . .have no idea how that happened.

Oh no!

 

[Faraday40]

I lost Bayou, he was trapped under the Brinsea brooder plate leg . .have no idea how that happened.

So sorry.

I found that the tiny chicks are more difficult due to their small size. I had the same thing happen when using my mama heating pad. I switched to a heat lamp for the 1st few weeks. I think (in my case) it was more of a design flaw that couldn't accommodate the smaller size.