~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[TurnersPoultry]

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Yes I will try to get some pics of them today or tomorrow. I just can't believe the little cockerel at 6 wks old is trying to crow! sounds like a whistle!

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Here ya go, TurnersPoultry...sorry it got kinda dark on me, so I tried to shine a light on them. Not the best pics in the world.

they look like they will be a great starter pair for me.let me get ahold of a box and let you know.i shoukd have some extra cash not this saturday but next because i will be selling at the sanford farm swap.do you accept paypal?

 

[ourlittleflock]

I have a question

I have 2x silkied serama hens, several frizzled serama hens and 2x smooth serama roos... My question is do I need a silkied roo to get the silked feathering upon new hatches or can a smooth x silkied produce a silkied chick?

thanks for your time

 

[LAseramas KP]

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they will produce both smooth and silkied but even if you have two smooth will sometime give of silkied for this is in there genes hope that helps

 

[shelleyd2008]

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You can pair the silkied hens to the smooth roosters, the first chicks will all be split to silkie. They need 2 copies of the gene to express it, so you'd want to cross one each of the boys from this pairing with the opposite hen (not the mother). This will result in 50% silkied chicks and 50% split-to-silkie. You can also cross the other chicks to each other and this will give you 25% silkied, 50% split-to-silkie, and 25% smooth feathered.
To diversify your silkie bloodline, I would recommend breeding a silkied male (once you get one) to a completely unrelated female. Silkied female would result in 100% silkied chicks, smooth female would result in splits.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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they will produce both smooth and silkied but even if you have two smooth will sometime give of silkied for this is in there genes hope that helps

You are correct that smooth feathered birds can produce silkied offspring, though it's not as common as you'd think. That's how the first silkied serama came about...a chance breeding that produced silkied chicks.

The silkie feather gene is recessive, the chicks need to have 1 copy from each parent for it to express.

 

[ZooMummzy]

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You can pair the silkied hens to the smooth roosters, the first chicks will all be split to silkie. They need 2 copies of the gene to express it, so you'd want to cross one each of the boys from this pairing with the opposite hen (not the mother). This will result in 50% silkied chicks and 50% split-to-silkie. You can also cross the other chicks to each other and this will give you 25% silkied, 50% split-to-silkie, and 25% smooth feathered.
To diversify your silkie bloodline, I would recommend breeding a silkied male (once you get one) to a completely unrelated female. Silkied female would result in 100% silkied chicks, smooth female would result in splits.

Thank you for this information. I have a Silkied roo and hopefully might still get a silkied hen, but I do have lots of smooth hens I can breed him to. This gives me hope for more silkied chicks

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Just enjoying all the pic's on this thread! We are getting some serama eggs this weekend from a friend! So excited!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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My friend (enabler) brought me another 30 serama eggs today...I had to move some to the hatcher early to make room for these since the incubator is still full!

14 (15?) serama eggs are due to hatch on Tuesday, so at least they didn't get moved too early!

 

[froggiesheins]

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My friend (enabler) brought me another 30 serama eggs today...I had to move some to the hatcher early to make room for these since the incubator is still full!

14 (15?) serama eggs are due to hatch on Tuesday, so at least they didn't get moved too early!

OH MAN I want a friend like that too!!!

 

[TurnersPoultry]

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My friend (enabler) brought me another 30 serama eggs today...I had to move some to the hatcher early to make room for these since the incubator is still full!

14 (15?) serama eggs are due to hatch on Tuesday, so at least they didn't get moved too early!

OH MAN I want a friend like that too!!!

does anyone ever use a brinsea octagon ?i want to get one but i want to know if anyone has ever hatched out seramas in one.thanks.everyone is so full of knowledge.Remember:a day with out learning is a day wasted.