American serama thread!

[cluck-cluck]

I'm a ton of help:

I dunno, but she sounds lovely, Banty!

I dunno, artsyrobin, maybe give her some and keep others in the 'bator? And when they all hatch, slip them under her? LOL I have no idea!

 

[Tripp16]

man now i have a dilemma!! Joe's girl Josie has gone broody, i have some of laura's eggs in the bator... so do i shift them over to her....???? she seems to have chronic broody syndrom! if i do, then it means poor joe will be by himself again, sigh... poor guy, he can't sneeze without her going broody! but i sure dont want to risk those eggs, thoughts guys??? the funny thing is she started staring at my brinsea like, I CAN DO IT BETTER!!

I would let Mrs. Josie do it. But thats just me. If they are expensive eggs I would move her inside and give her a few. Ive always hear mother hen knows best. Which I agree with. I havent used my incubator since may! All my hens do my hatching/brooding. Its soo much easier!

Its up to you but I would give her maybe 2 or 3. Good luck!

 

[artsyrobin]

well, i moved her and joe to the spare bathroom and we will see how serious she is, meanwhile- got these darlings from June today!

Ebony and JEt - my gosh they are smaller than a cockatiel!

 

[ChristineR]

I have all sorts of poultry, chickens, swans, guineas and turkeys and raise most of my chicks inside from hatching to the beginning of feathering and I have my African Grey parrot in here too. Never had an issue with anything. Keep things clean and your birds healthy and they should all be fine

Chickens can be carriers of disease and appear healthy. I guess everyone has to decide for themselves what level of risk they are comfortable with.

I love African Greys. I would love to have one, but I don't have the time to give them the attention they need.

 

[smoothmule]

Chickens can be carriers of disease and appear healthy. I guess everyone has to decide for themselves what level of risk they are comfortable with.

I love African Greys. I would love to have one, but I don't have the time to give them the attention they need.

I agree but even keeping everything separate there are all sorts of things that can happen in a flock. I breed for happy, healthy animals with strong genetics and disease resistance. I don't have issues with keeping my turkeys, guineas and chickens together. Actually, we have a whole farm of diversity and I think it makes for a better, stronger individual. I have horses, mules, cattle, llama's etc that share pastures. I recently raised a squirrel (rehab) and turned her loose. She and Hemmingway, my African Grey, were great buddies and when she wasn't in her cage, she ran with my 2 house dogs, Sophie and Ginger who mothered her from before her eyes were open till we released her. In 30 years of rescues, rehabs and farm animals we have had healthy animals that all get along together.

I do understand where you're coming from and agree with doing what is right to keep the flock healthy but I strive to avoid keeping them in too sterile an environment. If they were not exposed in small doses and built some protective immunity, when I sell one, if there are things out there they haven't been exposed to, it can hit them hard and even kill them.

Hemmingway is my buddy. We have long talks in the evenings. He loves being loose in the house when I'm home but Sophie and Ginger keep him company when I'm at work. I come home to hearing him say things like "SOPHIE!" lay down! Good girl, come on, wanna go pee pee? Love you

As crazy busy as it can get here, I always have time for Hemmers in the evenings. That's when he's the most talkative

 

[PNWGirl]

Chickens can be carriers of disease and appear healthy. I guess everyone has to decide for themselves what level of risk they are comfortable with.

Any animal, and any person, can be a carrier of a disease. The fact is that you are 100% more likely to catch something from another person than from your birds.

Both bird flu's (Spanish and H1N1) originated in the same region of China. Not a single one in the US and when the virus hit the US it was mutated to only person to person. This is fact and I can back it up with documentation. The first, documented, instance of the H1N1 going from person to person was in India.

The reason a lot of people do not have their birds, in the main part of their house, is not from a disease but from dust. I currently have all my Serama and four of my Silkie's in my dinning room- while I change their housing around. There is dust everywhere!! I have damaged lungs (hospitalized with Beijing flu years ago) and I have a Pom with a lung issue. Both of us are feeling the dust.

There isn't a smell, as I keep the cages clean (even visitor's said that they can not smell the birds and only knew because they heard them).

The noise is pretty small and I don't even notice until one of the boys crow, and they are not loud-- I just smile, because I had forgotten that I had them in the house until that reminder

Lot's of people put them in their garage or in a spare bedroom where it is easier to control temps without having them in the main living area's.

Sheila

 

[cluck-cluck]

I absolutely love Parrots Macaws African Greys but they really get attached to people, and you have to devote you life to them, so I could never get any, but chickens are so much easier, because they can be social with humans and fellow chickens at the same time. Makes them easier to have and still live a life! LOL.

I've cleaned up my first 'bator and it's up and running again. I'm letting it settle into the right temperature then I'll be putting my 2 Louisiana eggs in lockdown in it. I'm so close, so close!!! Please let them hatch?!?!?!

 

[cluck-cluck]

Well, it seems pretty stable, though I'll probably check on it all night, so I took the two eggs out of my new bator and candled them (they're both still moving and look right) and snuggled them up in the old bator with nice high humidity I hope they're comfy 'cause I'd die in that thing!!! Yuck, 75% humidity and 99 degrees? You gotta be joking! Yuck! LOL

 

[artsyrobin]

for your smile tonite- meet Jet and Ebony from Junebug- absolutely adorable micros! ignore the background, its my studio
http://s119.beta.photobucket.com/user/rgortonart/media/Myseramas/P1030368_zps1241d7a1.mp4.html

 

[SunValleySeramas]

OK serama world what do you think of the Samples, of the Leg bands we are getting for Wild West Serama Club for the 2013 year. The aluminum ones will be 11mm wide and 6mm tall and the plastic will be 10.5 wide. They fit well on seramas and I am just waiting for a cost on the plastic ones, then the taking of orders will begin. Think hard of how many you think you will be needing for the 2013 Season ( do you have adults that need bands get the snap on ones as well to ID them) I am also just making sure the plastic also have the Year # and Ribbon Symbol, either way we will be placing an order for the plastic snap on Hope you enjoy what you see. All Profits from the sales of these bands are going to a Cancer Reserch Facility that Kelly Duyck has chosen.. Orders and instructions will be posted on the WWSC web page and facebook soon!! Not a Member dont worry it is Free to join, we also have a facebook page and you can find us on the world wide web aswell. Thanks for looking we are excited about these..