Fertile Serama Eggs!

[cochunk]

recenly (about a week ago) our family serama hen "Erma" started to brood on a nest of six little eggs, she is very comitted and only gets off maybe once or twice a day to eat, drink, releave herself and take a pretend dust bath on the carpet floor

, that gives me the oppertunity to candle the eggs and see how they're doing very couple days or so, and I must say it is so awesome to watch the tiny embryos bobbing in the egg and the branching veins, compared to seeing it in a youtube video, making it that much more special.

This will be Ermas second attempt at raising a brood, and I'm confident that she will get the chance to be a mother.

 

[ladychicken&Ducklover]

How adorable..please keep us informed.

 

[cochunk]

I do plan to keep an update on things. most likely when or if they start hatching cause I don't want to stress Erma out with my meddling.

I did check one of the eggs the other night, they're getting much bigger, maybe about the size of an almond?

 

[cochunk]

Ermas been on her eggs for 19 days now, when she got off to take a break I desided to look in on the eggs, sure enough I heard a tiny little pip.

P.S

I plan to have lots of pictures.

 

[cochunk]

They hatched! all six of them, they seem to be doing just fine, mostly sleeping and poking their head out from under mama to see the world, we don't seem to bother them, in fact earlier they had some trouble getting back into the nest, so I helped give a boost and were quite happy to have it.

we love our new additions to the flock.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

Congrats on the baby Seramas. Tell Erma Chickenfan4life says gooooooood job.

 

[kukupecpec]

These are ADORABLE! Can I ask what you do to keep them inside? on carpet no less with all the pooping and what not?

I myself would like to get some seramas as family pets

 

[cochunk]

They are contained in a cage with a covered bottom, corn cob pellets as bedding but we have a news paper on top, when we do let them out we'll have a towel down so they don't make a mess.

The roo has been interested in whats going on, even went into the cage but only to eat their food, at least he's a good boy and didn't hurt them.




I also found it interesting how they are all about the same color considering seramas don't breed true to color or size. four of them had rusty orange down their back, the other two are just yellow.