~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[19hhbelgian]

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Yours reminds me of some of my chicks from last season. Here's a pic of one that Bailey (PhiladelphiaPhlock) now has. Yours has more white than this boy, but I did have some other chicks that looked like yours.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Mottled needs 2 copies (one from each parent) for it to show up. So unless both parents carried mottled, the chick is not mottled. It looks like it will be kind of partridge colored. Do you have any new-chick pics of it from when it was a baby?

 

[pamperedpoultry]

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You can't post a photobucket link?

Facebook is the only place I have them uploaded to right now.. I thought you had seen them from that link before? Does it not work now for you?

 

[smoothmule]

These chicks parents are siblings out of a very mottled rooster and a pumpkin hen with no spotting so if they both got a mottling gene from their sire, then they each had a mottling gene to give these chicks. It's just that they didn't look a thing like those mottled chick down pics. They were yellow with a faint bit of color on the back and wing tips, one had a teeny stripe on the head.

 

[catwalk]

AAAAHHHHH! You people either need to stop bragging about all the little chicks you are hatching, or tell me how to get eggs! I have my birdies on 14 hours of light each day, I sprinkle cayenne on their food, and they are wormed once a month. Guess how many eggs I've gotten this year, out of about nine hens? ZERO!!!! I have no eggs from which to hatch chicks, and when the spring shows start coming around, I'll have nothing new for Mr. Mongold to judge. Unless one of them changes color, or Orion's tail suddenly points up instead of left, I'm just going to recycle last year's repertoire. So somebody help me, please!! What's the secret to eggs?

 

[smoothmule]

"STOP" worming so often. That definitely affects egg production for some, some wormers are worse than others. I can depend on mine to stop laying for about a month if I work with anything other than Piperzine. If you are keeping them clean and they're healthy, you do not need to work every month and all those chemicals can be very damaging.

Some may not agree but try it, no wormer until they're laying, it will be close to a month.

 

[Yeagin1]

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Smoothmule....Here's photos of the little cockerel at 24 days and the day he turned 2 months. He's the only one out of the three that the colors change so much. They're from a pair I got from Jerry, so I have no idea what colors are behind them.

 

[Ok_Junebug]

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Lights and temperature keeps hens laying year 'round. My building is heated and the lights are on timers. I have collected these eggs since the weekend. Most of these are from community pens. L.G. (Little Guy) Buddy, Tu, Blue line...are not hens.

 

[Carolynspeeps]

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Smoothmule....Here's photos of the little cockerel at 24 days and the day he turned 2 months. He's the only one out of the three that the colors change so much. They're from a pair I got from Jerry, so I have no idea what colors are behind them.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54479_cockerel.jpg

I am so surprised to see the change! Now I can't wait to see how mine turn out. They are about 24 days. Thanks for posting that photo. I had no idea.

 

[Yeagin1]

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Smoothmule....Here's photos of the little cockerel at 24 days and the day he turned 2 months. He's the only one out of the three that the colors change so much. They're from a pair I got from Jerry, so I have no idea what colors are behind them.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54479_cockerel.jpg

I am so surprised to see the change! Now I can't wait to see how mine turn out. They are about 24 days. Thanks for posting that photo. I had no idea.

It really surprised me too. His sisters are still about the same color. I also thought he was turning black but he's really a deep dark brown.

Sandy