Cerise1924
Crowing
I've heard that Sebrights are tough to breed. Not sure if its because of their feisty attitudes, fertility issues, or difficult incubation.
They have a lot of attitude for such little chickens. They are excellent flyers too. We hatched our Sebright (2 Sebright eggs were thrown in with our Maran eggs as extras when our DD told the lady they were cute. One hatched & was used to befriend a lonely only Dominique chick who hatched about the same time. The sebright was not supposed to be a permanent flock member. Let's just say that we do not own any Marans & still have our silver sebright. LOL)
Our sebright is named Trouble & for good reasons. In order to be able to somewhat control her, we trained her to fly up on command. (DD did this as a 4H project.)
Here's the funny video:
Trouble believes she is the queen of the coop and she adds so much personality that I couldn't imagine our flock without her. The top hens sleep on the highest roost, but little Trouble sleeps above them in the window sil. (She's the only one small enough to fit there.) We did not try clipping her wing because we want her to be able to escape predators. The neighbors will call her over for visits & she will easily fly over the 4' fence to greet them. Thankfully she stays in our backyard most of the time. I believe she stays because this is where her flock stays. None of the other chickens can come close to hoping the fence. I am not sure if there were multiple Sebrights that she'd stay. The only sebright breeder we met always kept them enclosed & did not allow them to free range.
As far as holding their own, in our case Trouble has no problems living with giant English Orpingtons. Most of our hens weight about 10 lbs & our big roo is about 14. She makes up for her little size by being fast & vocal. She went broody 3xs last year. Twice I allowed her to hatch & she was an excellent, highly dedicated mama. When broody, she adopted any chick at any age and watched over them until 7 weeks old. (Our other broody will only adopt chicks in the 1st 2 days, then attack newcomers.) Because it is impossible for our giant roos to mate her, Trouble had to hatch fertile orpington eggs. The chicks grew larger than her by 3.5 weeks old, but she didn't care.
