~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

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Holy Mackerel Juliette.... You are just a whiz with photography, or else my March Chicken Madness has just made me fall in love with every frizzle you have on your site. I've always fashioned myself as a smooth sorta gal, but doggonit, I'm going to be dreaming of frizzles tonight.
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And chocolate Seramas?
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Seriously, I'm thinking I need a BYC hiatus, for my own sanity and financial well being. I'm ready to quit my job and sit on eggs right now. I've got chick envy bad....
 
Newtochick,

Luther is a black split, technically he's a black Serama that carries a chocolate gene so you can't look at him and know he carries chocolate, you have to know he does by his breeding. So, obviously, he will look like anyone's black Serama but when bred to a black hen, he can produce chocolates. They don't just pop up here and there. There is a gene responsible for the color and it can be bred for, even in Serama's. Juliette has been working on this for a while and these are planned breedings so she knows what genes her Serama's have. If your rooster looks just like him, well, most black Serama's look like that too. Many are hiding all sorts of genes and you don't know what they are till you breed a few generations. If you line breed, many of these secrets slip out and you can figure out what they have so you know what you're likely to get, eventually.

There are a number of colors that can mimic chocolate but they are not true chocolate. To some, it doesn't matter. What is important, as far as color, is that they are pleasing to look at and if that means they look yummy chocolate, well that's good enough. For someone who tends to be picky about detail, like me, I want to know, not guess, that mine are chocolate. I just have one hen so it's going to take a bit to prove to myself she is what she appears to be so I have to breed her as though she is true chocolate and if I get the correct colors that chocolate should produce, then I'll be satisfied.

Unless you have a serious concern about it, I wouldn't worry about it. It bothers me a teeny bit when I see one listed as chocolate that probably is not but I'm okay with that if everyone else is but if I was bent on having a chocolate Serama, I would educate myself so I'd know and not depend on what others tell me. What my concern is, is that I would not want to sell someone something extra special, for an extra special price, that was not what I say it is so I'm going to do everything I need to do to prove to myself that my hen is the real chocolate. Hope that wasn't too wordy to make sense, I'm a bit windy at times
 
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My seramas are my pets, so I am not overly concerned about it. On the other hand I would like to know their colors. They are high quality seramas, carefully bred from the people I got the eggs from. Some of their stock is from bluegrass, I am not sure if all are. I could call and get the colors of the parents I suppose. Honestly I was just wondering what makes one chocolate. My bird does not look strictly black, it has a lot of brown tones, especially on the tips of its feathers, so I just wondered if that was his coloring. I am only keeping one of the the 2 roo's I hatched and I have decided that he is the one I am going to sell, so it would just be nice to know what color he was. I have been calling him partridge to my husband, and maybe that is his coloring lol, I just have no idea, I am new to seramas! Anyways, I appreciate your trying to explain it to me. I will call and figure out its parents so I can know what to call his coloring.
Thanks!
 
So im still trying to work on a coop/pen design I was wondering what is a good way to house breeding pairs and trios if you are going to try and get serious about breeding them?
 
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Holy Mackerel Juliette.... You are just a whiz with photography, or else my March Chicken Madness has just made me fall in love with every frizzle you have on your site. I've always fashioned myself as a smooth sorta gal, but doggonit, I'm going to be dreaming of frizzles tonight.
barnie.gif


And chocolate Seramas?
droolin.gif
droolin.gif
droolin.gif
droolin.gif


Seriously, I'm thinking I need a BYC hiatus, for my own sanity and financial well being. I'm ready to quit my job and sit on eggs right now. I've got chick envy bad....

Thanks for the compliments, but the credit goes to my son, Erik, who takes the pictures for me. I made a post as to the setup used, just click here ...Chocolate and Blue are my latest passions, and when combined with frizzled feathers, I'm in heaven! I'm also working on getting those two genes into my silkied seramas!

Juliette
 
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Cathy-
Thanks for the offer, but I think I'm going to try keeping a closed flock now, so I can isolate the genes I have without introducing new ones! I've been using "what I have" so to speak, and I'm finally seeing some progress in size, color, etc.

I'm finally off to check out your new thread!

Juliette
 
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Check out my coop ...It is wa-a-ay more crowded in there now, this was taken "early on"...
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You can see, however, how my breeding pairs/trios are kept separate, so I can track who's throwing what-with-whom!

Juliette

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What is the space requirements for seramas?
 
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