American serama thread!

[Chicklette 1]

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I love the colors on your first boy

Your pictures are great

Elvira is so cute too

It makes me so happy that you like them. Elvira looks like black velvet in person and think I should have named her Velvet but maybe for another chicken. I figured I couldn't go too wrong getting birds from Jerry since I had not had any hands on experience.

 

[nurseshelly]

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K the more I read, I don't think the smooth babies will carry it because it is incompletely dominant ... then there are some modifier genes that really muck it up ... still reading though!

Okay, we just need to ask Sonoran Silkies on the Arizona Thread!!!
Here is her post on the issue and she has nice charts and everything. I'm still digesting it though!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2871647

She calls frizzle x frizzle offspring like Marilyn a "Curley" ... so here is her table and 100% of her chicks should be frizzle!!!

*from Sonoran Silkies post, link above*
CurleyXNon-frizzle 100% frizzle offspring
f f
F Ff Ff
F Ff Ff

Oh, of course that assumes we have no frizzle modifier genes ... they can make a genetically frizzle bird look smooth. Stinkin modifier genes!!!

Well anyway, that is assuming Marilyn is a Curly and not just straight Frizzle. I think she is a Curly though because her tail feathers break off all of the time (usu only about two inches tall), and her wings are just sticks of feathers with out the feathers if you know what I mean. I guess we will see, if all of her offspring are frizzle then she is a curly for sure.

 

[nurseshelly]

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Awww how adorable

I love the "nest box" So cute!!! I love silkie seramas

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

So how many eggs do you have in there that are marilyns?

 

[Ra_]

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Those granules might look tempting to a chicken.
I put some ant killer out a long time ago and I made sure to carefully pour it down their hole,
so that no granules were left on the ground but I think the little buggers carried the stuff back to the surface?

 

[nurseshelly]

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Those granules might look tempting to a chicken.
I put some ant killer out a long time ago and I made sure to carefully pour it down their hole,
so that no granules were left on the ground but I think the little buggers carried the stuff back to the surface?

I was planning on using diatomaceous earth mixed with sugar and water, the put in a little tupperware (taped shut) with a few holes so only the ants can get it. I have too many pets to be sprinkling anything in the back yard. Front yard however has been well granuled! If that doesn't work I'll have to think of something else.

 

[bobbyc1970]

YAY June is here

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[nurseshelly]

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LOL I think at least 6 ... it's a little hard to tell in the lighting which are tan and which are white. I'll count next time I have them out candling them.

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

Awesome! If you can only keep two including phillip...I mean phyllis, that means 5 for me! I hope you cut me a smoking deal. Do you have a frequent shoppers card or a punch card where if you buy 9 and the 10th is free?

 

[bobbyc1970]

lol

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