Help sexing Serama chick

[WoDia]

Most definitely I’d monitor them if I choose to see how they would do together! Wow! That’s quite a bit to manage
I have a bantam silkie too and he is the top. All 3 were raised together. He doesn’t bother the handicap roo at all but the other one he won’t let near the girls at all. They fought bad once but figured it out.
He has a thing for the big girls. He chases my lavenders and jumps on their back but he’s not even close lol

Wow! You do really have your hands full! See how it goes. A lot of people mix their flocks with LF and Bantams, and they say it can be done. I DO NOT. I’m not one for taking chances like that. Your tiny ones are so pretty already. I hope you’ll update when he gets his big boy feathers.

 

[Kelllynnl]

Definitely a cockerel . . . I see those pointed feathers in addition to his very red comb and wattles.


If he is biting you, he would be attacking. One of the only exceptions to this is when they are friendly, because males that are very affectionate towards humans have a high chance of trying to mate with them.


Droppings has nothing to do with gender. Nothing. And dropping shape varies depending on the type of dropping.


Yep. Some hens crow (mostly in a female-only flock or when she is trying to express her dominance), but crowing is of course mostly done by the males. I have a hen that crows, even though there are plenty of roosters around.


All chickens have saddle feathers. The shape of the saddle feathers is what matters. Pointed for males, rounded for females.

Wow! There was quite a bit of info I did not know!!

Definitely a cockerel . . . I see those pointed feathers in addition to his very red comb and wattles.


If he is biting you, he would be attacking. One of the only exceptions to this is when they are friendly, because males that are very affectionate towards humans have a high chance of trying to mate with them.


Droppings has nothing to do with gender. Nothing. And dropping shape varies depending on the type of dropping.


Yep. Some hens crow (mostly in a female-only flock or when she is trying to express her dominance), but crowing is of course mostly done by the males. I have a hen that crows, even though there are plenty of roosters around.


All chickens have saddle feathers. The shape of the saddle feathers is what matters. Pointed for males, rounded for females.

sorry I don’t know how to break the sections neatly like you did but wow! Lots of info! Some I didn’t know!

His biting is definitely mating behaviour. I will start trying to deter him from doing it. Otherwise he is pretty friendly. He is in the house 24/7, right now. I believe he had cocci so I’m treating him now and he’s doing much better. I have him eating out of my hands and the come runnning when I call “treats”

I spoke with the lady and she will give me a female if I want. I still need to decide.

I’m pretty sure I will just keep them in the house so IDK if I want 3 lol

 

[Kelllynnl]

I would not risk putting a bantam male with large fowl males. That will certainly end up with either an injured or dead chicken. Been there, done that (though not on my own choice). If he is okay with being a house chicken, and you are willing to change a chicken diaper several times every day, then that would be fine.

I think I’m going to just keep them inside. I e been looking into reviews for chicken diapers lol

 

[Kelllynnl]

He’s definitely a cockerel. Here’s Merlin crowing or in his case a chirp lol this morning. NVM it seems you can’t post videos.

 

[Kelllynnl]

Merlin is a bird species so I really like that one!

Quick story - last year my husband found a Merlin in the middle of the road by my FILs farm. He brought him home and I decided he seemed ok enough I brought him back to the farm and released him and he flew away.
About a month later I found a deceased Merlin in my backyard. The farm is a 10 minute drive and I’ve never seen any type of raptors around my house. Some were saying it was most likely the same bird

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

sorry I don’t know how to break the sections neatly like you did but wow! Lots of info! Some I didn’t know!

You can click reply on someone's comment to, well, reply to them and copy their text like you did to my comment. You can click somewhere in that little blue box like the one above me with your reply in it. On my computer, all I have to do is find the space that I want to break up and then you hit the "return" button and it spaces it out. Let me try it with your comment.

sorry I don’t know how to break the sections neatly like you did but wow!

Lots of info!

Some I didn’t know!

Now everything is spaced out.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

He’s definitely a cockerel. Here’s Merlin crowing or in his case a chirp lol this morning. NVM it seems you can’t post videos.

You can post videos, but I will let someone else chime in to that because I am not really sure how . . . I know you can make it a YouTube video and put the link here.

Quick story - last year my husband found a Merlin in the middle of the road by my FILs farm. He brought him home and I decided he seemed ok enough I brought him back to the farm and released him and he flew away.
About a month later I found a deceased Merlin in my backyard. The farm is a 10 minute drive and I’ve never seen any type of raptors around my house. Some were saying it was most likely the same bird

Oh no! You did a good thing by getting him back to the wild. Sad that he passed away, though.

 

[Kelllynnl]

You can click reply on someone's comment to, well, reply to them and copy their text like you did to my comment. You can click somewhere in that little blue box like the one above me with your reply in it. On my computer, all I have to do is find the space that I want to break up and then you hit the "return" button and it spaces it out. Let me try it with your comment.







Now everything is spaced out.

I will try that next time! My OCD brain likes things clean and organized lol