American serama thread!

[nchls school]

Precious!

 

[homeschoolin momma]

Took some pics of my pint sized serama cockerel and his sister. He's smaller than her! About the size of my hand.

 

[nchls school]

Very nice! Are they actual siblings; real brother and sister? One smooth feathered and the other silkied. Do you own the parents?

 

[homeschoolin momma]

Very nice! Are they actual siblings; real brother and sister? One smooth feathered and the other silkied. Do you own the parents?

These two are actually siblings. They came from @Faraday40 eggs that she gave me on one of my visits. They came from Angel and Teddy. She gave me 3 and all 3 hatched. Angel and Teddy are both silkied. I have Teddy's son which is smooth, but carries the silkie gene and Pippin which is silkied. The little chick Faraday posted the other day is theirs. Shes the only 1 of 10 that hatched. So she went up to find some quail siblings. I've got 10 more of Pip's eggs in the inky and just going to keep adding more as i get them. Hopefully whatever has been going on with the horrible hatch rste will have settled itself out.

 

[nchls school]

Maybe I am incorrect, but I think Angel flew over the fence. Two silkied parents will have only silkied offspring as silkied is recessive requiring two genes of that trait to show up. In which case a silkied bird does not have smooth feathered genes and can not have smooth offspring when paired to another of the same feather type. I assumed the parents, or one parent, was smooth but had the silkied gene. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Faraday40]

These two are actually siblings. They came from @Faraday40 eggs that she gave me on one of my visits. They came from Angel and Teddy. She gave me 3 and all 3 hatched. Angel and Teddy are both silkied. I have Teddy's son which is smooth, but carries the silkie gene and Pippin which is silkied. The little chick Faraday posted the other day is theirs. Shes the only 1 of 10 that hatched. So she went up to find some quail siblings. I've got 10 more of Pip's eggs in the inky and just going to keep adding more as i get them. Hopefully whatever has been going on with the horrible hatch rste will have settled itself out.

If they all hatch you'll be in trouble. Whatcha gonna do with 10 bitty seramas??

BTW- the lonely only you hatched has the same silkied feathering and coloring as the male you just posted. (mostly white with bit of tan) Was that egg from Pippin or one of mine.?

It's possible that your bro & sis seramas both came from Angel or it's possible they're half siblings. The tiny eggs both looked like Angel's eggs, but a few times I got 2 very similar tiny eggs in one day- both looked like Angel's. Because Teddy's the only possible father, all should carry the silkied gene.

And speaking of seramas. I have someone nearby with some show quality seramas. She offered to swap some chicks in June if I want to. It could be an easy way to get some different colors in my bantam coop......

 

[Faraday40]

Maybe I am incorrect, but I think Angel flew over the fence. Two silkied parents will have only silkied offspring as silkied is recessive requiring two genes of that trait to show up. In which case a silkied bird does not have smooth feathered genes and can not have smooth offspring when paired to another of the same feather type. I assumed the parents, or one parent, was smooth but had the silkied gene. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes, almost all of my smooth feathered seramas carry the silkied gene and the father is silkied. It's possible the chicks are 1/2 siblings and the eggs just looked alike. At the time, i thought only Angel was laying. (Most of my seramas were broody then!!!! It's possible I got a new layer that week.)

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Is there anyone on here that ships fertile serama eggs or chicks?

 

[FathertoFeathers]

Is there anyone on here that ships fertile serama eggs or chicks?

I ordered mine from Ebay and they are in the incubator now. So far 8 of the 12 have made it to the final stages. All of them developed fine but I lost 4 a few weeks ago when a storm knocked my power out.

 

[FathertoFeathers]

Ive heard people say that Serama's will hatch earlier than other breeds. Has anyone experienced this? Sorry of this is kinda a dumb question this is my first time incubating eggs or dealing with Serama's.