~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[shelleyd2008]

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Here earlobes actually look blue. In Old English, blue or 'turquoise' earlobes is a fault, not a DQ.

 

[Yeagin1]

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If June bred this bird you can bet it's a pure Serama. She has some very good silkied and I hope to get some from her some day. You can also breed the white earlobes out as well as the dark legs.

Sandy

 

[catwalk]

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Cute boys! My Midas is the father of your red one, and I noticed that he's been throwing pretty faces. Your boy has a cute head, too!

 

[ruthless]

Some of you experienced breeders of Serama, how hard is it to breed out the white ear lobes ?

 

[BluegrassSeramas]

We have been selectively choosing parents with all red earlobes for a few years now. It fades, but it takes a long while to get out completely. So it depends on what you mean by hard, lol..it can be time consuming if you have a lot of white to deal with. To me it seems the more white you have to deal with, the longer it takes to breed out compeletly.
I think the trait is somewhat polygenic, so its hard to pin down. I dont have extensive enough records to know that if I have some white pop up, is it due more toward the color of the parents earlobes, or the egg color that a hen might lay (or her mother), or due to her feather coloring etc....
If I have time, Ill work more on those records this year.

Anyone else know any more?
Id love to know!!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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That's what i've been told too, not to use birds that have white earlobes. Other than that, I don't know. I do know it's a lot easier to get IN than it is to get OUT.

kippenjungle says this about white earlobes: "The white ear lobe is due to the purine pigment which is controlled by a number of genes. The trait is said to be polygenic. The red ear lobe is due to the lack of the genes that invoke the purine pigmentation. Sometimes the white ear lobe can have a greenish or yellowish tinge. The number and location of the genes responsible for white ear lobes is not presently known." from http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page2.html

Unfortunately, not much help there either.

 

[jerschex]

From the pictures I've see posted here, most of you have far more serious problems than white ear lobes. As of this day there is no recognized color of serama, possibly in a few months the whites will be and then several years before another color. At this time, everyone should be concentrating on TYPE, and nothing else, What good is a serama with red ear lobs if it's flat chested, has a saddle back and horizantal wings. I see too, obsession with size. Breed those heavy B's and C's, get 5 times the number of chicks and work from there. But, to each his/her own, your time, your dime your serama.

 

[Ok_Junebug]

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If June bred this bird you can bet it's a pure Serama. She has some very good silkied and I hope to get some from her some day. You can also breed the white earlobes out as well as the dark legs.

Sandy

Yes, this little pullet is my breeding. She is from an outstanding pair that I bought from Dianne Brewer. I am working on both ear lobe and shank color. Ear lobes in my roosters are getting pretty good. Hens have been a bit more difficult. Shank color is more difficult than ear lobes, but I'm working on both. You should consider other good qualities first and deal with ear lobes and shanks (and everything else) as work in progress. Dianne says there is NO SILKIE in the background. Several smooth feather serama also have white on the ear lobes. It is not just a silkie thing. White ear lobes are considered desirable in Malaysia. It is just something we have to work on in the American Serama.

 

[froggiesheins]

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[bobbyc1970]

WOW LOVE THE CREOLE COLORING
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