~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[Nekhebet]

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Jessi-

I crossed her with Junior, and she gave me my chocolates, as well as my blue laced boy below...His color and type needs work, but I am very excited about my next hatch!

Junior...
http://www.pixiechickens.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dsc_9093a.jpg

Silverado...
http://www.pixiechickens.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_0550A.jpg

I'd love a blue frizzled or even a blue silkied! I have what is prob a blue cockerel out of jessi's eggs but I don't know how he will turn out, and if he's good I'll need to get a decent girl.

Juliette, i wish your birds were giving you more pullets, I love your cute little guys.

 

[juliette2009]

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Jessi-

I crossed her with Junior, and she gave me my chocolates, as well as my blue laced boy below...His color and type needs work, but I am very excited about my next hatch!

Junior...
http://www.pixiechickens.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dsc_9093a.jpg

Silverado...
http://www.pixiechickens.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_0550A.jpg

I'd love a blue frizzled or even a blue silkied! I have what is prob a blue cockerel out of jessi's eggs but I don't know how he will turn out, and if he's good I'll need to get a decent girl.

Juliette, i wish your birds were giving you more pullets, I love your cute little guys.

Well, PLEASE keep your fingers crossed that the coming hatches are blessed by the Hatching Gods (or goddesses), and that I get some pullets...that will make both of us happy!!!

 

[kelliepulido]

Well....I have 8 seramas out this morning!!!!I think we are about finished with the hatch.I have 25 standard chicks that arrived yesterday morning from Mcmurray but they seem so big I might need 2 brooders.Jesse 8 from you I am very happy with that amount.

 

[racuda]

One of my new chicks:

 

[muddyhorse]

so cute

we just got seramas this week. this morning they went outside I got the heat lamps up and they are in their multi level cage inside the big coop.

 

[Baralak]

Here are my 3 week old seramas

 

[shelleyd2008]

So far I have 8 itty-bitty serama babies hatched! These came from the smallest eggs sent, the other 'big' ones (none of them are really all that big) haven't done anything yet.

How long can they stay in the incubator? Is it 3 days like any other chickens, or should it be 24 hours or less as it is with quail? These chicks aren't much bigger than my coturnix quail are at hatch, so I'm leaning toward the latter side. I don't want to open it if I don't have to, but I also don't want to have starved babies in my incubator. Any thoughts?

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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I'm bad at staying out of the incubator once hatching has started. If I feel I need to get chicks out, and want to give late comers a chance, I take the whole incubator to the bathroom, and turn on the shower to get it hot and steamy. If you have an exhaust fan maybe bring in a lamp for light, so the steam isn't lost to the exhaust fan.

Then I open the incubator, remove the chicks, and pour in a bit of hot water to raise the temperature and humidity in the incubator.

I try not to open, but if I do, that's the approach I take. I've had many a late hatcher survive this way. Good luck!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I'm bad at staying out of the incubator once hatching has started. If I feel I need to get chicks out, and want to give late comers a chance, I take the whole incubator to the bathroom, and turn on the shower to get it hot and steamy. If you have an exhaust fan maybe bring in a lamp for light, so the steam isn't lost to the exhaust fan.

Then I open the incubator, remove the chicks, and pour in a bit of hot water to raise the temperature and humidity in the incubator.

I try not to open, but if I do, that's the approach I take. I've had many a late hatcher survive this way. Good luck!

With the quail (who have to be taken out of the bator within 24 hours) I'm always opening the bator and removing barely dry chicks. I just drop a washcloth in that is wet with hot water. If any happen to get stuck I just stick them inside the washcloth

If I tried moving the incubator to the bathroom I'd probably drop the dang thing

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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I'm bad at staying out of the incubator once hatching has started. If I feel I need to get chicks out, and want to give late comers a chance, I take the whole incubator to the bathroom, and turn on the shower to get it hot and steamy. If you have an exhaust fan maybe bring in a lamp for light, so the steam isn't lost to the exhaust fan.

Then I open the incubator, remove the chicks, and pour in a bit of hot water to raise the temperature and humidity in the incubator.

I try not to open, but if I do, that's the approach I take. I've had many a late hatcher survive this way. Good luck!

With the quail (who have to be taken out of the bator within 24 hours) I'm always opening the bator and removing barely dry chicks. I just drop a washcloth in that is wet with hot water. If any happen to get stuck I just stick them inside the washcloth

If I tried moving the incubator to the bathroom I'd probably drop the dang thing

ha ha ha. You don't know HOW HARD I concentrate if/when I have to move the incubator the 10 feet to the bathroom. So far, so good. Good luck hatching!