~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[juliette2009]

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I think so, too!

I need a bunch more like her!!!

Juliette

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I was looking at my Serama roo and I noticed he is getting alot of dark brown ( chocolate ) feathers on his back and tail. He looks nothing like he did a month ago. That is what I love about the Seramas, you never know what they are going to turn out to be.

 

[Ok_Junebug]

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Juliette,

I didn't mean that my hens don't produce males.....they do....I mean that all the brown (partridge/chocolate ???) ones are female. (sex-linked ?????). I'll post on the Chocolate forum tomarrow (or when I get some time) It's almost time for me to go home now (at work).

 

[catwalk]

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Chocolate dilutes black, so if your pullets have black in them, they're not chocolate. A black father can make choc pullets, though, if he carries the gene. Half of his daughters should be chocolate.

Juliette, I've hatched several like your smooth pullets, with the very light shafts. I call them Cocoa Crispies!

 

[Ok_Junebug]

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Chocolate dilutes black, so if your pullets have black in them, they're not chocolate. A black father can make choc pullets, though, if he carries the gene. Half of his daughters should be chocolate.

Juliette, I've hatched several like your smooth pullets, with the very light shafts. I call them Cocoa Crispies!

So then I am correct in calling them 'partridge'? I got that from Sigrid's book SERAMA COLOURS...its just hard to apply to Silkied birds.

 

[juliette2009]

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Chocolate dilutes black, so if your pullets have black in them, they're not chocolate. A black father can make choc pullets, though, if he carries the gene. Half of his daughters should be chocolate.

Juliette, I've hatched several like your smooth pullets, with the very light shafts. I call them Cocoa Crispies!

Catwalk-

Oooh, I like that name! Cocoa Crispies!

I'm curious to see if I can breed the light-colored shafts out, to make solid chocolate.

C'mon girls, start laying some eggs, so I can get the incubator back out!

Juliette

 

[catwalk]

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I'd call them partridge. I've seen lots of partridge Silkies at shows, and they come in all sorts of shades and distributions. I'm sure there's one "perfect" type of partridge, and they are judged accordingly, but I really don't know what they're suppossed to look like.

 

[juliette2009]

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I'd call them partridge. I've seen lots of partridge Silkies at shows, and they come in all sorts of shades and distributions. I'm sure there's one "perfect" type of partridge, and they are judged accordingly, but I really don't know what they're suppossed to look like.

That's what I've been calling my silkieds as well...some are bluer, some are darker, some lighter...

 

[HenThymes]

Hi Everyone, just popping in to share a picture I took this evening of a breeding group I put together to see what I get.

I have never used Hershey over my serama hens but I do know he is a chocolate carrier and has a gorgeous laced chest. I also know my little mottled hen Chloe is a carrier as well as she has produced me three gorgeous chocolate cockerels from a different rooster so it will be interesting to see what I get from this group. I also have a solid black pullet in with them who has been with a solid black cockerel up to this point and every egg I set from them was a dud. Hoping she is not infertile

so being with this group should tell me soon. Hershey is a bit big for a serama but all three of the hens are really small so I am hoping for somewhere in the middle with the offspring.

ps- he is molting at the moment so please excuse his appearance.

 

[juliette2009]

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Sending fertile (chocolate) vibes your way!

Juliette