Chocolate Serama Breeders - dun and blue can be included here as well

[JulieNKC]

Quote: Ok, thanks! That works better actually for me I think. I like my mottled, mille, and exchequer chickens. So if he stays solid black can I put him with the checkered pullet until I find a better match for her?
Guess I should start a polka dot chickens thread for that question, lol.

 

[smoothmule]

Ok, thanks! That works better actually for me I think. I like my mottled, mille, and exchequer chickens. So if he stays solid black can I put him with the checkered pullet until I find a better match for her?
Guess I should start a polka dot chickens thread for that question, lol.

Definitely, would be excellent if he stays black with no red leakage. A black rooster with no leakage is hard to get with Serama's. They can show red even as late as 6 months old. I have 2 now and still biting my nails waiting to see it they will stay all black.

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

I like the red leakage coloring much better than the plain old dark smutty brown/black. Maybe that's why I like the dun gene better than chocolate.

 

[smoothmule]

It's not that I don't think red leakage with black isn't pretty. It's just awful to work hard to get good solid colors when there's leakage that always creeps in just when you are thinking you got a nice solid color. A "good" solid color is necessary to develop other solid colors like my chocolates.

 

[Mrs Davis]

Hello,
I live just outside of FLW mo and am interested in finding someone who sells and raises Serama chickens to add to our sall flock or just to keep as a house chicken since my son and husband think that would just be great.
Thanks,
Mrs. Davis

 

[emrldgrn1]

Just stumbled on your thread! I bought some hatching eggs from a lady two hours away from me. She had a cute little roo that was blue based and I wanted to add some blue to my black, buff, red, mottled and black flock. From the eggs I got some interesting colors and one of them looked chocolate/silver. As a chick it was a chocolate down and as a pullet she is a cocoa brown slightly washed with silver. I love the color and would like to get some more hatching eggs from someone with blues, chocolates and splits to try and get some more of this color into my breeding flock. . I have one solid black hen, but my other two black hens have red leakage. Advice, help pointing me in the right direction, eggs I can hatch? PM me if you can help thanks!

 

[smoothmule]

Ft Leonardwood? I'm just south and west of you, 45 minutes west of Lebanon. I have a few for sale, PM me. They aren't chocolates but they're very cute.


Here is one of my chocolates, my pullet Zsa Zsa.
I just love Chocolate!

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

I think silkied seramas are beautiful. Is that a Silkierama?

 

[smoothmule]

No, she's just still immature. The feathering when she's past a year old will just be regular straight feathering. Never heard of the term Silkierama, lol
They're generally referred to as a Silkied Serama like the Frizzled Serama and Booted Serama but that's a really catchy name.
I have a little black and white silkied Serama cockerel. I've been considering who to breed him to. Because the Silkied gene is recessive though, I don't want the gene just floating around in my straight lines. As much as I like them too, if I sold some straight feathered to a breeder and they produced silkied feathering, some breeders would not appreciate the surprise so once I choose a couple of hens or pullets for the silkied cockerel, I'll have to keep excellent records to know every chick that has the gene. For one, that would help me choose mates to produce the silkied and I can keep them separate from the straight lines.

 

[muffi]

I have been very casually working toward a line of chocolate silkied Serama, but the feathering has been a disaster. I know chocolate tends to cause feathers to miss molting and thus look ragged, but it seems in my silkied Seramas it causes a lot of the feathers to not lose their sheath. My tiny little girl has thick, ugly sheathed tail feathers and her head is full of pin feathers. I tried to help her with them, but she didn't have much patience for the unpleasant process. She was visibly uncomfortable.

I think blue silkies are beautiful, so that is what I would recommend. I have what I thought was a blue barred roo, but he has never fathered any blue offspring, so he is probably matte black. Too bad, as I wanted to work with blue plus chocolate. Just as well. I need to keep my numbers down to a manageable number for me!