Broody Serama hen

[Lidiapac730]

Wow, you are a great photographer! I don't see any obvious cockerels yet.

thank you. I love photography just about as much as I love chickens. Well, let's give it more time. I just hope they are not all 3 roosters!

 

[WVduckchick]

thank you. I love photography just about as much as I love chickens. Well, let's give it more time. I just hope they are not all 3 roosters!

Surely not all 3!
But I’m willing to wait, since it means I’ll get to see more pics.

 

[Lidiapac730]

Surely not all 3!
But I’m willing to wait, since it means I’ll get to see more pics.

Hello, My baby seramas are 3 weeks old. My photo-session was not very successful today, they don't want anything to do with me... But I took a few pics to let you see, any roosters? To me they still all look the same. None of them really stands out one way or another, looks nor personality. let me know what you think.

 

[WVduckchick]

I still don’t see any obvious boys yet. Yeah!
That pic with the chick in mid-flight is fabulous!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Oh my bantam cochin that hatched the remaining serama is doing well with her baby! About 2 weeks old now. I don’t think the other cochins have figured out that the baby doesn’t look like theirs yet.

 

[Lidiapac730]

Oh my bantam cochin that hatched the remaining serama is doing well with her baby! About 2 weeks old now. I don’t think the other cochins have figured out that the baby doesn’t look like theirs yet.
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Such cuties. I love cochins, they look like they have dress on... Fancy. If I have all three roosters, can they live together peacefully with their parents when they all grown up, or would I have to separate them?

 

[Lidiapac730]

Oh my bantam cochin that hatched the remaining serama is doing well with her baby! About 2 weeks old now. I don’t think the other cochins have figured out that the baby doesn’t look like theirs yet.
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close up of two of the serama combs. (Could get the third one... too fast... )

 

[WVduckchick]

Such cuties. I love cochins, they look like they have dress on... Fancy. If I have all three roosters, can they live together peacefully with their parents when they all grown up, or would I have to separate them?

I have kept multiple serama roosters together without much problem. The dominant/older one usually keeps the others in line. I prefer to keep 2 males in each pen. One older, one younger. Then I rotate them out as younger ones grow up. It would depend on your end goal too. If you are breeding them, sometimes too many can just be a nightmare. But mostly it depends on how they treat the girls. I did have to pull 2 young boys that got too rough with the girls.

close up of two of the serama combs. (Could get the third one... too fast... )View attachment 1549454

That single comb is popping out a bit, and the flat comb may take a little longer. Are they chest-bumping or any "little boy" actions?

 

[Lidiapac730]

I have kept multiple serama roosters together without much problem. The dominant/older one usually keeps the others in line. I prefer to keep 2 males in each pen. One older, one younger. Then I rotate them out as younger ones grow up. It would depend on your end goal too. If you are breeding them, sometimes too many can just be a nightmare. But mostly it depends on how they treat the girls. I did have to pull 2 young boys that got too rough with the girls.



That single comb is popping out a bit, and the flat comb may take a little longer. Are they chest-bumping or any "little boy" actions?

No chest bumping or anything, no fights, still acting like babies, still following mama serama. I know it might take longer with flat combs. I have some bantam babies, mixed flock. 8 weeks in and I thought I had them all figured out, I though I knew boys from girls. All rosters had big, red combs, crowing and with two 'cochin brothers' running the roost. I had one Easter egger, beautiful hen, I though, all white with some orange and gray, I named her Madonna, she looked like a bride, like an little angel... Well, all of the sudden within 2 days her comb turned from flat yellow to bright red and bumpy... So I renamed him Diego. Within a week he established himself as a dominant rooster... Diego still looks like an angel though...

^^^ Diego^^^

 

[Lidiapac730]

I have kept multiple serama roosters together without much problem. The dominant/older one usually keeps the others in line. I prefer to keep 2 males in each pen. One older, one younger. Then I rotate them out as younger ones grow up. It would depend on your end goal too. If you are breeding them, sometimes too many can just be a nightmare. But mostly it depends on how they treat the girls. I did have to pull 2 young boys that got too rough with the girls.



That single comb is popping out a bit, and the flat comb may take a little longer. Are they chest-bumping or any "little boy" actions?

More photos, the babies are 2 days short of a month.