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

[smoothmule]

June,
Thanks and yours are so nice, such type set in. I am hoping for enough self chocolates to make a breeding pen of nothing but self chocolate and blacks. I have a fair start but I know there will be surprises. I figure I can work around it and tighten up the breeding pool to set in the type and color and get my size down. Maybe a year or two for phase one.

Your babies I brought home are doing great, settled in with the weather and tolerating the heat as well as any of them. They have fans and fresh water and lots of fresh air with the wire cages. The only thing I found I needed to add was the shade cloth on the west side and that dropped the temp significantly in the cages.

Make sure to post photo's of your chocolates as they mature.

 

[smoothmule]

It's nearly too hard to share but I lost Truffles to heat stroke along with little Dovey and her mate Roger. The others have done fine but 113 degrees proved to be more than they could tolerate despite the fresh water, shade, shade cloth and fans. The only thing I can feel less awful about is that I have some pretty nice chicks out of her and more to hatch soon. I am just heart broken but I'm determined to continue this project with the chicks she's left me with.

 

[muffi]

Oh, I am so, so sorry for your loss. I can imagine how devastated you must feel. It's always so hard to lose a favorite. I'm glad to hear you have some nice chicks from her. She will live on through her offspring.

I had a favorite chocolate-based Serama that I hatched myself who had the absolute best personality I've ever seen in a chicken. I only got one chick from her before she fell ill and passed away. Of course the offspring was not very typey and it was a female, so I lost that line of chocolate, but she has her mom's unbeatable personality and I love her to death!

A helpful hint to help beat the heat: I've heard of people freezing jugs of water and putting them in the coop for the chickens to chill out by.

 

[muffi]

And wouldn't you know it, my very best solid black pullet, who I was planning to use in my chocolate breeding program, was just killed by a raccoon. It somehow got her through the wire fencing of the rabbit hutch she and a few other Seramas were in.

I basically had to restart my Serama flock this year after losing all but two pullets to illness this past winter. I had an exceptional wheaten cockerel and only hatched two of his offspring after he passed. One was the not-so-typey friendly pullet I mentioned in the post above, and the other was an exceptional solid black pullet - who was just killed a few minutes ago. She was just about to start laying any day, too... So saddening.

 

[Ok_Junebug]

Blue babies.

 

[luvinrunnin]

I can't wait to see what they look like as they mature!!!

June, I've decided I'd really like to have a pair or trio of your silkied Seramas a little later this fall. I'd so appreciate it if you'd start keeping an eye out for a super nice trio for me!!! Looking for excellent type, and then size/color. You know!

Thanks!!!

 

[Ok_Junebug]

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Well, I'm wall-to-wall chickens here. Shouldn't be too hard to do. I'll start shipping again sometime in September (late).

 

[luvinrunnin]

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Well, I'm wall-to-wall chickens here. Shouldn't be too hard to do. I'll start shipping again sometime in September (late).

Awesome!!! I'm looking to be a show contender, and have this funky thing about breeding the best quality possible to the best quality possible just like you do (although I am JUST now getting into this and don't know much!) so I'll trust your judgement!! I need to look at your page again at your color projects, but honestly, I just want really typey birds.

 

[bigb-71]

Does anyone have any blue laced seramas they want to sale ? i've been looking but they are hard to find ! just shoot me a PM if you can help me out . thanks for your time .

 

[SunValleySeramas]

I have a dunlace cocopop cockerel, he looks like a blue laced red wiondotte, but cocopop he is young still I sold his full bro and you are getting his two full sisters!!