American serama thread!

[Chicklette 1]

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Thanks Bobby for all those good vibes. I'll take all I can get especially since this is the first bator hatch. I am very interested to see if the really small egg will develop!!

 

[Larkspur88]

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Don't let the grass fool you. It rained...yesterday? I think? But it's typically been between 98-108 degrees here. Today was actually a cool day. It was only around 96! At least that's what it read this morning!

And that pullet is Flashdance. She's the one Jerry recently told me is called silver Ginger. The other pullet, bless her, is bald. Swayze the biggest roo keeps mating her and pulls her fragile curled feathers out!

 

[pongo]

well folks its official i became a chicken hoarder today lol.....i was at chailis and she had these adorable lil chicks and one was a pullet and several roos....she sent me home with a pair....they are bbr oegb.
that was yesterday.....i found out oegb come in a variety of blue and so set off to a breeder today.....i know am the happy owner of a pair of blue wheatons.....and as i was leaving the breeder was so kind he had a group of blue wheatons that the mother died and he was not up to raising the 4 chicks for the rest of the summer.....so now i have 2 lil roos one a wheaton blue the other a sport and 2 lil pullets again one a wheaton blue and the other a sport.....they are super pretty ill post pics as i get a chance....but i likes em

 

[Cackling Hen]

I have a question my chicks are 5 weeks old do you think they will be ok without heat lamp it's 55 tonight there in coop inside a brooder box there featherd out .thanks

 

[Carolynspeeps]

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At 5 weeks, they really need a temperature of about 75 degrees. Serama are more sensitive to temp than most.

 

[Cackling Hen]

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At 5 weeks, they really need a temperature of about 75 degrees. Serama are more sensitive to temp than most.

Ok thanks that's what I figured what age do you'll take away the heat lamp or how is the heat control with Seramas thanks

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Your dogs and chickens would love to have them as scrambled eggs if you don't feel you can eat them. I also crush the shells and feed back to my birds. But they have a treat of scrambled at least once a week. The dogs get them a couple of times a week.

I have a few birds that I will not hatch from and 1 that has never been fertile, there are sometimes also eggs that were in the heat too long and eggs that are too dirty for me to want to mess with.....so they go in the dog/chicken bowl for scrambling day.

I only have 6 dogs.........lol. I certainly could scramble them and they would love it. My husband gives our 2 very large dogs 1 raw egg in their food once a week. I would prefer cooking them myself. I have no problem eating the wonderful eggs I get from my bandies and LF. I make eggs for dinner at least once a week. I guess I was just thinking about "wasting a Serama" I got one egg today that might be from the other Serama hen that I got and it is a very, very small egg but it does have and air space so I threw it in the bator. Do those ever hatch? It is much smaller than all the other serama eggs which I think are from my frizzle. It was so cute, I couldn't resist trying to hatch it but I will keep a close eye on it.

My Serama don't lay for diddly and most of my 'yard bird' bantams are playing mom right now

, but when I have an over-abundance of bantam eggs (LF eggs get sold unless they have cracks) I boil them, crush them with a plastic cup shell and all, and feed them to my chickens. On hot days I keep the eggs in the fridge over night before I crush them so the birds get a 'cool' treat; on cold days I crush them right out of the boiling water so the birds get a 'warm' treat. I don't bother feeding yolks to my chicks since I use 20% protein chick starter anyway.

Dogs are mostly dads, so they can do without

Though I do give our house terrier some boiled button quail eggs when they aren't selling, she sure does love them

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I have one cockerel that is barred, almost looks like a crele. He is still in the 'baby' pen. But I doubt I'll use him since he has a pretty long back

Obviously, this is not a pic 'of' him, but he is in it

 

[froggiesheins]

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At 5 weeks, they really need a temperature of about 75 degrees. Serama are more sensitive to temp than most.

Ok thanks that's what I figured what age do you'll take away the heat lamp or how is the heat control with Seramas thanks

Hi cackling hen, I honestly don't know the REAL answer, but I go by what Mom & baby do all by themselves......At about 2 months, baby doesn't sleep under mom anymore, she is next to mom.....I go by the NATURAL method....

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I beg to differ, nothing is that ugly! I don't have any baby pigeon pics, but I do have a few of baby ringneck doves.....they're just as ugly only smaller