~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[jerschex]

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Neat Jerry! Will she/ does she lay eggs?

No these don't lay and they are very short lived, never had one live longer than 15 months

 

[jeremy]

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Neat Jerry! Will she/ does she lay eggs?

No these don't lay and they are very short lived, never had one live longer than 15 months

Why are their lives so short?

 

[jeremy]

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She's not buff, she'd be a rich golden color if she was.

She does look Wheaten though, almost Blue Wheaten even. She's very pretty.

 

[juliette2009]

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Now, Bailey, we all know that it's the females who determine the sex of the eggs!!!

I would pay BIG money to find out the secret of producing more pullets than cockerals!!! OR, I'd pay big bucks for hens that only produce pullets! Has anyone here ever had such a mythical creature???

Juliette

 

[SilverPhoenix]

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Now, Bailey, we all know that it's the females who determine the sex of the eggs!!!

I would pay BIG money to find out the secret of producing more pullets than cockerals!!! OR, I'd pay big bucks for hens that only produce pullets! Has anyone here ever had such a mythical creature???

Juliette

I've had awesome luck with my original serama trio. They seem to produce about 70% pullets! I'm not sure if it's my rooster or hens or what, but I have enjoyed this ratio very much. I haven't bred large volumes so perhaps it is just luck, but...hey, I'm not complaining regardless.

 

[catwalk]

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Now, Bailey, we all know that it's the females who determine the sex of the eggs!!!

I would pay BIG money to find out the secret of producing more pullets than cockerals!!! OR, I'd pay big bucks for hens that only produce pullets! Has anyone here ever had such a mythical creature???

Juliette

I have a neighbor with one of those! I traded her yogurt for hatching eggs last year. What she gave me started hatching a week early, and I got one chick each day until they were done, for a total of eight PULLETS! I assume that a hen was shoving her way onto a broody nest and laying her daily egg, and each egg started incubating immediately. The owner dug into the nest to fulfill her obligation to me, and even a night in a carton on my front porch didn't kill 'em. The disappointing part of this story is that these are easter eggers, not Seramas.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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Now, Bailey, we all know that it's the females who determine the sex of the eggs!!!

I would pay BIG money to find out the secret of producing more pullets than cockerals!!! OR, I'd pay big bucks for hens that only produce pullets! Has anyone here ever had such a mythical creature???

Juliette

Oh, I'm just teasing you. I will say that Magellan is quite fertile, and I'm having a better hatch rate out of "his" eggs than my other pairings. But yes, I'm looking at better than half cockerels I think... I see more combs popping up every day! At least they are cute, and come out of good lines. It shouldn't be TOO hard to find them homes.

 

[Inkheart]

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Now, Bailey, we all know that it's the females who determine the sex of the eggs!!!

I would pay BIG money to find out the secret of producing more pullets than cockerals!!! OR, I'd pay big bucks for hens that only produce pullets! Has anyone here ever had such a mythical creature???

Juliette

Oh, I'm just teasing you. I will say that Magellan is quite fertile, and I'm having a better hatch rate out of "his" eggs than my other pairings. But yes, I'm looking at better than half cockerels I think... I see more combs popping up every day! At least they are cute, and come out of good lines. It shouldn't be TOO hard to find them homes.

Not at all - hint hint

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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No these don't lay and they are very short lived, never had one live longer than 15 months

Why are their lives so short?

Jeremy, I think that the micros, or the REALLY tiny ones just have so many dwarfism genes, that they just can't thrive. There not enough room internally for their organs to operate properly, and eventually something is going to malfunction. I would suppose in females it is related to the reproductive tract, but that's just a guess. It would take necropsies to find out.

I have a young cockerel now that just stopped growing. I haven't weighed him, but he can't be more that 7 or 8 ounces, and is crowing and nearly has his adult plumage. I wonder if the micro boys live longer than the micro girls....

 

[froggiesheins]

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Neat Jerry! Will she/ does she lay eggs?

No these don't lay and they are very short lived, never had one live longer than 15 months

Makes me sad......such a short life.....

If she were mine,I would just LOVE her to death...