American serama thread!

[pongo]

im telling you my dilema is all kates fault she gave me the 4 muttly things LOL....its true sometimes the mutt is the best bird lol

 

[bigb-71]

you just have to ask your self bill . can i live with out this chicken in my life ? some times the answer is yes and sometime no ! good luck .
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[pongo]

i can but wouldnt be the same....gabby stays at my feet and this guy rides my shoulder..... he is almost 4 months old but a very cool dude....i wish i knew how he crowd that would help a lot but he never has LOL heck he never may ....it may even be a hen LOL big comb but i seen weirder....right chaili

 

[pongo]

ok loggin out early i have to sleep at a normal time tonight i have that test in the morning.....talk at you all tomorrow hopefully excited and not depressed LOL

 

[ocseramas]

Jerry, you are being so mean to poor Bill! He loves blues and then you go and post that beautiful bird! You have no shame.......

 

[ocseramas]

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Bill, he may not ever crow! Remember, he's half silkied and you know my opinion of silkied!!

 

[BluegrassSeramas]

Just stopped in to vent.

We went camping this weekend and I got home Sunday evening. It was just at dark, and I went to check waterers. Didn't see all my birds since it was "bed time", but I did see a few and thought all was well. Nothing out of the ordinary anyway.

Woke up this morning to feed and saw that one of my huge chicken tractors was the scene of a massacre!

My pair of super blue egg laying Ameraucanas were dead in the corner with bites right behind the eyes in the back of the skull. One of their pheasant roomies was dead with them in the pile (same bites to the back of the head) in the run part of the tractor. Found the other two with heads and thighs eaten of on the inside of the tractor. There were feathers strewn everywhere! I was thinking a mink since we are somewhat near a creek.

Went over to the other 4 tractors that were full of my adult Serama, and they were empty! Just a couple of possibly recently plucked feathers in each one, but not even a handful of feathers all together. Not a trace of the birds. I found a small hole in the corner of the wire on one that something could have squeezed in (but no feathers near this spot and doesn't look like anything was pulled out of it), and some scratches in the dirt by another one that looked like a dog(?Something with hard claws?) tried to get under for a second, but not big enough for a serama to even squeeze out of. I could barely put the toe of my shoe down in this spot. Almost all of my adult breeders are gone!

The only adults we have left are the ones we were going to take to show (a frizzled roo, a smooth roo, a blue hen, and a nice typey hen I got from Dianne--but she doesn't even lay!) I have a quad of whites Patrick just brought back from the breeding pens and my blue laced (THANK GOD!) left as well, that were in the chicken shed. Luckily we have about 30 started chicks but losing all my breeders was devastating this morning!

Does anyone know if a mink will drag off 20 chickens without a trace? I thought they just would kill them all like the predator did in the pheasant pen.
What do you think?

 

[Carolynspeeps]

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Not sure about the culprit, but I am so sorry to hear of your loss. I can't even imagine how you must feel.

 

[gumbii]

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thanks luvducks... appreciate it...

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I am

for you too....good luck!!!!

you better be crossing them fingers... HAHAHAAHAHA... you told us she might not be fertile because she is so tiny... but it's all good... if she is, that's great, if not oh well... she's still a great hen... i think i'm only incubating a couple of her eggs right now... since none of our hens are laying... it's driving me nuts... RAWR!...

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oh man... what a nightmare... but what's worse is not knowing what predator did all of that disaster... how could they just disappear from such a small hole...?

 

[Smokin Silkies]

Oh my!!! I am so sorry about your loss! I know how devastating it is. I've lost numerous birds to predators. I had something very small getting into my coops a couple years back. After going through all the possible predators, we figured out that it had to have been a weasel. Darn thing chewed a TINY hole and killed every one of them. I know baby possums can go through little holes and take birds. Either way its heartbreaking!!!

I hope you find what did this!