American serama thread!

[Moki]

Thank you.

 

[Faraday40]

Coge Update:

One of her 1st eggs was completely useless. Here it is next to a Sebright's egg.

This is Coge now. She's sitting tight on some eggs in an unused rabbit hutch. She only laid for about 10-12 days before going broody.

As soon as DS noticed his spoiled little pullet was broody, he ran inside to grab some of her eggs. I had no idea if any of her eggs were fertile. She started with 8, but one was peeking out. I removed that egg plus one more just in case. Out of the remaining 6 eggs, 4 had embryos when we candled last night.

I guess in about 2 weeks, we'll have our last "last hatch." (Hey. I'm doing my best to stop hatching. The incubator went into storage back in August.)

 

[Compost King]

Mother teaching daughter how to roost. Its going to get chilly tonight so I hope she has enough feathers!

 

[Faraday40]

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Mother teaching daughter how to roost. Its going to get chilly tonight so I hope she has enough feathers!

They look very cute up there.

I've got 2 4-wk-olds out in the coop and it's going down to 40'F tonight. Their mama is a LF orp, so I'm sure they'll find a cozy place to sleep. I'm a little more worried about Coge who's sitting on eggs in a rabbit cage - by herself. She's been doing very good, so I don't really want to move her.

 

[Faraday40]

Here are my little seramas with their laced orp family. It was pretty cold this morning when I took the pics.

 

[Kat MacK]

Hi all, I'm thinking about adding some Seramas in the spring, but I can't house them inside. How cold can they tolerate? They would be in a small mixed flock of bantams, six or so. Our girls have done fine the last few Winters in their coop down to 30's Farenheit most winter nights, with a few in the upper twenties. Lots of rain during winter, but the run is covered

 

[homeschoolin momma]

If you have a heat source in their coop, I would think they should do ok in those temps. We've already gone down in the lower 30s here, and my little roo did fine out with the bigger guys he's been hanging with. I'm about to get the heat lamps out and situated, but he's probably going to be spending most of the winter in my garage.

 

[Faraday40]

Seramas seem to do OK when nighttime temps go down to freezing occasionally. (As long as they can huddle in a nice, draft free coop.) It's when the temps go down & stay down that can be a problem. In our climate, mine did great with a little panel heater. When the daytime highs were below zero or low single digits, I did bring them inside - just to be safe. (We got a few -40'F nights during a polar vortex) On most days, the winter daytime temps were around 10-20'F. They spent a lot of time in the coop, but they ran out to their unheated run for dust-baths, feed, and even brief sun bathing. In fact, our silkie even hatched a few seramas Dec 2nd.

Of course our spoiled "house chicken" (Teddy) is a silkied serama rooster. He spent more time in DD's room than the coop. Even with the heater he was only permitted to visit the hens when temps were in the teens or above. My DD is very protective of her pet rooster.

 

[Faraday40]

Today the local kids go Trick-or-Treating throughout the downtown businesses. DS always picks unusual costumes. This year he wanted to be "a tree." So here's his apple tree costume..... and we made our serama an apple.

For her efforts, the serama earned some leftover seeds from the pumpkin catapult contest.

 

[Faraday40]

DS's serama just hatched 2 chicks today.
Look at that proud mama! (1st time broody)