~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[catwalk]

It's "Midas Immortal" everybody! I broke the wire on my bathroom miror while cleaning it the other day, so I decided to have some fun while I looked for spare wire around the house. I always wanted to have a giant old house with a secret room, a hidden masterpiece, or something, so hiding a picture behind a mirror is as close as I get here. With the motivation of "la verde fee" and limited by the watercolors that haven't dried up, I colored him like my cock King Midas. I wonder how long it will be before I forget it's back there, so I can suprise myself?

 

[smoothmule]

Catwalk,
That's hysterical~ ! Luv it

Juliette,
I posted some photo's of the cockerel that is the dad to these littlest guys on The Coop, a learning site and these are genetic experts and I've gotten thoughts that he's blue and some said he's sexlinked chocolate! How confusing,

Maybe future breedings will tell more. I am having a lot of fun following them to see how they change and develop and you're right, it's always a surprise and the most fun anyone should have.

I'm almost inclined to go with the chocolate though. From the same cross as the cockerel had come from, I had gotten several chicks in chocolate colored down that didn't exactly look chocolate but there were so many other color genes and pattern genes that you just couldn't even guess the color. These last little chicks are from a full brother/sister cross to intensify the genes so I'd know more about what I have so if they're chocolate, then that would be just as cool as blue and I love the wheatens. They're not as unique a color but they are so pretty and when they're wheaten patterned or BBR with blue or chocolate instead of black, I think they are really nice.

 

[smoothmule]

Juliette,
Here is one of the chicks that is the color I was getting. There was one really chocolate looking chick, down that is, that feathered out black that I wonder about. I thought he might be a split which would have meant the hen was carrying chocolate. He wasn't the best in type or size so I sold him as a pet but I have 2 young roosters that are full brothers and one of those is this rooster we're talking about and one hen I have is out of that hen and same rooster so she's a full sister to them. She was chocolate looking in down too but patterned like the wild pattern or wheaten as a mature hen. I just don't know yet but really anticipating the next couple of months to see how these chicks look in their first feathers then later in mature feathering. I lost the hen last summer that produced these three young birds and sold the rooster, he was just not what I wanted and was so mottled you couldn't tell what genes he had.

 

[catwalk]

Can you post pics of your "blue" cock's mother? I saw the discussion on the Coop, and I'm actually suprised that anyone thinks it's chocolate. The mother of that bird would have to be chocolate in order for him to be, and you would be able to tell by looking at her. I'm just curious, as I think one of the parents is dark blue, and choc hadn't occurred to me. I also wonder how the allele of dominant white, smokey, might play a role? I was playing with the calculator, concerning your bird, and I found that two wheaten birds that carry smokey will throw 25% your color.

 

[smoothmule]

Here is the mother to my 2 roosters and hen. I really hated loosing her!

 

[catwalk]

She DOES look chocolate! Sorry about losing her, she looks very nice!

 

[smoothmule]

It would make more sense that he is chocolate rather than blue and I guess if he is then the other rooster is a split? and could produce chocolate pullets?
I need to go back to look about that again. I may be getting 3 or 4 black pullets so we'll see then for sure.

 

[smoothmule]

Here is one of the chicks that the hen above produced

All of them had down about the same color.

 

[juliette2009]

This is the hen that started me down this wonderful slope...Her father was a chocolate, her mother was a blue-laced, so she carries both genes...Sounds great at first glance, but it does pose it's own problems...

I have a chocolate roo from her, a blue laced roo, and a blue/chocolate roo, all from her (crossed to a columbian patterned serama frizzle; I didn't have a black roo), and all these boys are frizzled as well. Since I didn't have enough small, typey black girls, I used what I had available...The blue roo has been crossed to his blue/silver sister, the chocolate has been crossed to 2 black, very typey silkied girls, and the blue/choc boy was bred to his mother and a very typey black smooth girl.

I find these 2 colors, chocolate and blue, tantalizing...I just love them!

Juliette

 

[juliette2009]

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You are t-o-o-o-o funny! I love your sense of humour!!!