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cluck-cluck said:
Yah, they're actually walking around, and when they go to sleep at the side where I have an oil heater going, I suspect they're warm.  Unfortunately, it heats up the room too, ugh!  I'd just really like to take that oil heater away!
I feel for you!  I'm allowed 1, and I'm planning on keeping a few (shhhh!) but will have to keep them quiet at night so as not to bother the neighbors.  I think if we can keep the noise down, they won't mind so much, but if they're too loud too often, then the neighbors will not be pleased, and I'll have to re-home them.  I'll undoubtedly have to find homes for a few anyway.  But no matter what, I really want to keep all the Seramas I've hatched.  If that means keeping them in the house, then they'll stay in the house!  LOL
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They're is no law specifically about roosters, just a noise ordinance. If a roo only crows in the morning hours and not all day then I'd probably be fine to keep it in the coop with the ladies. Now, if this rooster I get is like my Bantam Cochin before we moved, well-- I'm not in luck.
 
My First Set of chicks for the Fall Season...
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4 Beautiful Babies (Mother is a Chocolate laced, Father BBR) 11 more eggs hatching in 3 days from my broodies!
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hello, i am new to this thread and certainly new to seramas. we started off with 1 serama hen, not knowing that she was the smallest breed of chicken and would definitely not be getting much bigger. her name is rosie, she is approximately 8 months old and has been laying "regularly" for about two months. i say "regularly" because we get maybe 4 eggs every two weeks. i have been incubating all her eggs since we got her a husband (singer) who is about 8-9 months old also. i know her eggs are being fertilized, they make it to about day 9 and sometimes to day 14. but i have yet to have one even make it to the hatch box. i also incubate silkies and ee's. am i doing something wrong here or are seramas just notoriously difficult to breed? the incubator temp stays pretty stable (considering the wacky weather here in so cal) at 99.5-100.5 and the humidity fluctuates from approx. 40% rh - 60% rh. it obviously goes higher when adding more water to keep it above 40%..... anyways. should serama eggs be higher temp or higher %rh or be the same as silkie eggs? some of my silkie eggs are the same size as the serama egg, and i have hatched some uber cute buffs out of them that are doing great with the "larger" birds. so i am not convinced it is the actual egg size. and my birds are healthy. no problems. wondering if anyone else encountered this problem. sorry if this issue has already been addressed here, i have searched but cannot spend as much time reading all the answers as i would like. also, i am trying to post 19 more times so that i can start posting classifieds for my silkies and ee's that i am being overrun with right now. (my incubator works great !!) thanks everyone ! :)
 
pamc13 said:
hello, i am new to this thread and certainly new to seramas. we started off with 1 serama hen, not knowing that she was the smallest breed of chicken and would definitely not be getting much bigger. her name is rosie, she is approximately 8 months old and has been laying "regularly" for about two months. i say "regularly" because we get maybe 4 eggs every two weeks. i have been incubating all her eggs since we got her a husband (singer) who is about 8-9 months old also. i know her eggs are being fertilized, they make it to about day 9 and sometimes to day 14. but i have yet to have one even make it to the hatch box. i also incubate silkies and ee's. am i doing something wrong here or are seramas just notoriously difficult to breed? the incubator temp stays pretty stable (considering the wacky weather here in so cal) at 99.5-100.5 and the humidity fluctuates from approx. 40% rh - 60% rh. it obviously goes higher when adding more water to keep it above 40%..... anyways. should serama eggs be higher temp or higher %rh or be the same as silkie eggs? some of my silkie eggs are the same size as the serama egg, and i have hatched some uber cute buffs out of them that are doing great with the "larger" birds. so i am not convinced it is the actual egg size. and my birds are healthy. no problems. wondering if anyone else encountered this problem. sorry if this issue has already been addressed here, i have searched but cannot spend as much time reading all the answers as i would like. also, i am trying to post 19 more times so that i can start posting classifieds for my silkies and ee's that i am being overrun with right now. (my incubator works great !!) thanks everyone ! :)
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I've had the same problem. My incubator works great for duck eggs, but the Seramas never make it to hatch. I'm getting some new Seramas, so I'm hoping that I'll have better luck when some new blood is introduced.
 
This is what happens when you trust a Serama to stay where you put him (in the temporary holding enclosure outside) while you clean his cage. Alice escaped the holding pen, and walked through the open back door, where he was bokbokbokking in my dining room and living room, walking all over the place. LOL! He didn't want to be outside all alone, I guess. :D
He is 16 weeks old, BTW...still a baby. ^..^

 
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