~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[Ok_Junebug]

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I hear ya, editor problems. I am trying to update with better photos, and it shows that it it is edited, but it doesn't really happen. I also added a Cochin and a Silkie page yesterday, and they aren't showint up. Can you click on the text area and copy a photo?

I can click and drag 1 photo, then when I try to do another the first one disappears.

 

[Ok_Junebug]

Maybe I can put a picture here of my Blue Girl (9 oz.) and Buddy 11 (oz.) Both silkied.

 

[jen5680]

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Oh sooooooo pretty!!! I am a sucker for the silkied!!! Have they started laying yet???
I would love some of there babies!!!

 

[Ok_Junebug]

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Oh sooooooo pretty!!! I am a sucker for the silkied!!! Have they started laying yet???
I would love some of there babies!!!

Thanks, I love the little fuzzy ones, too. There are lots of really nice serama in Ohio. You should be able to find something that you can see in person.

 

[jen5680]

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Oh sooooooo pretty!!! I am a sucker for the silkied!!! Have they started laying yet???
I would love some of there babies!!!

Thanks, I love the little fuzzy ones, too. There are lots of really nice serama in Ohio. You should be able to find something that you can see in person.

I do no some people in Ohio that have really nice ones but NO ONE with those colors!!!

 

[TK Poultry]

one of my serama hens made a nest today. i was sooo shocked! i went out to check on everyone and i heard all of this commotion coming from my seramas and she must've just laid the egg and she had a little nest going! should i let her keep it or take the egg?

 

[Ok_Junebug]

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I take mine up as soon as they're laid or my hens go broody. I prefer to do my own incubating. You will probably get more eggs if you take it up. I save my eggs for about a week or so then either incubate them myself or if someone has gone broody I sometimes give them a setting of eggs back.

 

[Spudzville]

I am looking for information on the Chocolate color. One breeder of Seramas said she has never heard of a Chocolate and some breeders have them posted on their websites. Has anyone ever sucsessfully tried to breed the Chocolate color into other breeds. According to Grant Brereton, Seramas are the only bird in the United States that carry the Chocolate (choc) gene. OEGB and Wyandotte Bantams carry the dun gene.

Anyone?

 

[catwalk]

I can't imagine that Seramas are the only ones; I think Soronan Silkies is developing chocolate birds. My guess is that Seramas have a few color genes/mutations that have yet to be identified, where they are the sole carriers, but I'm dubius about the chocolate. Sigrid Van Dort may know about it, and you could try and pm Blackdotte on here for information. As far as getting a bird of your own, I know of breeders, but not of anyone who has them available right now.

 

[Msbear]

This is a girl Im picking up this weekend for a little chocolate project of my own

The true chocolate is a recessive diluter of pigment that works similarly to lavender. When bred to black, you will have split chocolates (birds who don't appear choc. but carry the gene.) Put those splits back to chocolate to get chocolate. I believe only the opposite sex of the first generation will be split as the mother will give this trait to her son as a father will give it to his daughter. It will take two chocolates to breed true.

ETA: Yes, catwalk is right. As far as I know, the only true chocolates currently in the US are from a line of serama that were imported directly from Malaysia. "Chocolate" everything else is, in fact, dun. You can test mate to see by breeding duns to black which should yield 50% dun. When choc is bred to black, no offspring will be choc.

...I have heard two stories of chocolates "popping up" in a line of black orpingtons here in the US. In one story, the breeder didn't know what they had and culled the bird from their flock only to find out later what a valuable bird they had.

Story #2: A lady posted a pic of a mysterious chocolate colored bird that "popped up" in her black orpington line while at work. The message board was alive with activity and everyone praised her for her beautiful mutation. She worked some distance from home and, when she got home that evening, she found her entire flock stolen.

Urban chicken legend or truth .... hmmm??