~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[chickyboomboom]

Such pretty birds! Thanks so much for posting the picture!

 

[CrazyChickensEverwhere]

Can someone help me think of names for my 2 serama cockerals. Usually I let my dad name my rooosters but not my seramas.

Ok ones a 5 month old mottled serama weighs 322 grams
other is a buff and weighs 450-500 grams. 5 months


Here are all the names of my chickens so you know it's taken.

Barbra (barred rock pullet)
Alice (barred rock hen)
puff ( barred rock pullet)
crooked toe ( australorp pullet)
Edward ( ee rooster
Laurence ( serama mix)
Sargent mayham ( australorp hen)
skittles (ee, unknown gender )
snow white ( light brahma pullet)
browny ( dark brahma hen)
willow ( ee pullet)
Lauretta ( OEGB hen)
handy ( red sex link pullet)
shadow ( australorp pullet)
red ( rhode island red hen)
salt (white rock hen)
pepper ( Black sex link hen)

now u know how I name my chickens
any suggestions would be great!!

 

[froggiesheins]

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You are more than welcome!

 

[froggiesheins]

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OH BOY fun stuff! Can you post pictures?? Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words!

My seramas are my kids so I like human names for them.
Napoleon / Little Ceasar / Pierre / Marcel / marcus / samson / cicero / faust / Felix / Jake / Freddie / Cyrano / Santos.....better stop LOL....

 

[SunnyCalifornia]

Mine are named based on looks... Hedwig looked like a snowy owlet when she was a baby, so she got named after Harry Potters owl. Gordon looked like a B/W checkered flag, and the few chases around the yard proved him to be pretty darn fast too, so I named him after my favorite race car driver.

Some pics might help, as well as a brief description of their personalities.

 

[froggiesheins]

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Yup that is the best way to do it.....I guess I named my Serama roo Little Ceasar because he looks like a pizza??

 

[nurseshelly]

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I have 4 Serama hens and 1 Serama rooster, they have their own coop. Then I have LF hens; 1 RIR, 1 BO, 1 Black Australorp, 1 Cuckoo Marans, 1 SLW, 2 blue Ameraucanas (not old enough to tell if girls or not), and 1 Silkie (not LF but shares the coop) all in one coop. They all free range together all day, and put themselves to bed at night in the correct coop - LOL! It's funny though because during the day, all of the big chickens hang out a lot in the Serama coop, and the Seramas hang out in the big coop. Sometimes ALL of them are in the Serama coop which is a tight fit! Everyone gets along really well. They have all been together since February, except my little Silkie that I just got last week, and the Ameraucanas are only 8 weeks old. The Ameraucanas and the Silkie are all blue, and they hang out together which is really cute

They sleep in a pile like puppies

I think the Silkie (Flo) was accepted into the flock so well because she blends into the Ameraucanas and nobody even noticed she was there. One of my Seramas did occasionally peck her if she came too close to wherever they were hanging out, but now she's fully part of the flock.
The first few weeks after we got our Seramas, we did alternate free range time, but then started letting everyone out together and it went really smoothly. They do tend to alternate which size group is grazing on our grass patch, rarely are all of the chickens on it at once, but occasionally they do. When I give out treats, I try to throw a bunch in different directions so the big girls don't hog the treats. I give the big girls enough to distract them, then give the little girls some. Or if it's something like bread, I'll put ten little pieces in my hand and throw them all at one time and then all sizes of chickens get some each time. Oh, too funny, when I was tossing bread last week, one piece landed in Flo's tail, and stuck! Luckily none of the other chooks noticed, or she would have been chased all over. She finally preened it out a little while later!
Our Serama hens have just started laying, so in the morning and evening, we have them cooped up about an hour later than the LF, otherwise Elvis wastes his time trying to fertilize the big girls.
Oh, when we first started free ranging both groups, the Seramas did stay on the opposite end of the run from the LF, but there wasn't any picking on or fighting. Gradually they integrated to where they all go wherever they want and don't bother each other. Just when treats are handed out, sometimes the LF will almost run over the Seramas to get a treat so have to be a bit careful. Also the LF are PIGS and will jump up waist high to grab extras.
Anyway, ours have worked out really well.

 

[justtoni44]

I use themes.....Like music from my favorite composer. Named a roo Gershwin.......ect.
But also what ever shows itself in persinality.
We have sweetie, because she is.

,spook, because if you get near her she freaks out.......
Miss fancy pants,( English orp all feathers)

Would love to see Little Ceasar...........Looks like a pizza.......

 

[nurseshelly]

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For shipped eggs the best I've gotten was 14 out of 24 hatched (might have gotten 18, but DS accidentally unplugged the bator while I was at work). The worst was 2 out of 16 (8 each from a different breeder). I use a wine fridge incubator for day 1 - 17, and then move to a hovabator for lockdown. It's great because I can put anything I want in, and lockdown is flexible. The wine fridge incubator is great because it really holds temps steady. It uses a reptile thermostat and temps only vary by about .5 degree.

 

[nurseshelly]

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We do themes for our Seramas too! Ours are singers or musicians and spouses (Elvis, Mama Cass, Priscilla, Marilyn, and Celine).
My LF are Evie, Ivy, Gertrude, Henrietta, Olivia, Flo, and two unnamed Ameraucanas (thinking Beatrice and Brianna if they turn out to both be girls since they are hatch mates).