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Thanks!
It is Phyllis, my Silkie Serama chick ... that better be a girl!!!
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Oh. My. Gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!
She is so flippin' cute it should almost be a crime!!!!
Wow....I have been looking up Seramas quite a bit over the past month or two...I think I am losing the battle. They are taking away my will to not have more chickens....It's not my fault....really. It's the Serama's fault....I mean....why should anything have that cute size and posture?? How could a reasonable person resist such a cuteness onslaught?!?!
Ahhh....but with the way our yard is, we really couldn't keep them separate (or safe) from the 'big girls.' So.....they'd have to be in the house.
What can I do in the face of such odds???
Oh, silly! You don't need a separate place for them! We have big girls too. We do have a little coop for them (like 4 feet wide, 3 or 4 feet deep) that we built for them. During the day, the big hen coop and the Serama coop are open though, and they share the run. What happens is ... 8 full size chickens cram themselves into the Serama coop, because it must be better than their coop! Then the 5 Seramas end up hanging in the big coop. They do "flock" together though and hold their own when treats are being handed out. It's the cutest thing to watch Elvis presiding over all of the hens when they graze on the grass. The only reason I think we still even need a little coop is so they have their own nest box, and the big girls have their nest boxes. Although sometimes they still do go in each others boxes.
Today though, I have FOUR broody Seramas ... all in the same nest box. Elvis must have decided there was too much estrogen in the coop because he put himself to bed in the big chicken coop for the first time ever! Probably because he didn't have any hens to stand next to on the roost, since they're all in the nest box. Almost gave me a heart attack though when I went out to bring him in for the night and he wasn't where he belongs!
Here they were all grazing and one of the dogs came over to see if the "gate" was open, so they had to go check it out.
I should have babies again soon, some are in lockdown. Or Amy Bullock is here in AZ and she has Seramas for sale sometimes ... she is one of the SCNA judges. When I got mine I got three from her, and 2 others from 2 different breeders across town.
