~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[smoothmule]

Is there a "best size or diameter" of perches for the Serama? I may make my own since we have loads of thick grape vine here

 

[SunnyCalifornia]

My cages have 1" diameter roosting poles. They were there from my cockatoo, which was a little bigger bird, but the Seramas seem to be doing fine on them.

Shelley, your little black bird looks a lot like one of my new ones, just add some white polka dots on her chest, and they are very similar!

 

[juliette2009]

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Fantastic!!!

 

[catwalk]

Jerry recommends a flat perch, such as a piece of lumber. That way they can sit on their feet. I have used pussy willow shrub/tree branches, because they're pretty straight, and everyone roosts on the branch that's about 1.5" across. I've attatched sticks to hardware cloth by using a washer on the outside of the pen to keep the screw from being pulled through. Great looking pen, Cathy!

My pens are getting old, and they look a bit trashy. Living in town, I should probably have something a little nicer. I'm going to try and make something lightweight and cute, like a dollhouse. I poked my head into the atttic above the garage, and I found some extra siding from the house, foam insulation, and a fertilizer spreader from which I'm robbing the wheels. I'll poke around a little more to see if I can find shingles, and I'm in business!

 

[catwalk]

The two brownies are full siblings from buff carrying chocolate over silkied buff. Half of the pullets from this cross should be chocolate, so the back one is likely a girl. The front one is feathering in like the father did when he was little. The middle one, though, is white. I didn't put a white pen together until two weeks after this egg was layed. SO.... he probably has a white mother, and I believe his father is my pumpkin, Midas. Mom is recessive white, because I've no pyle patterned chicks. Dad carries silver, so he either carries one recessive white gene, or mom also carries a dominant white gene as well as her two recessive ones. If the chick is a girl, I may put her in with her father to see what I get.

 

[muddyhorse]

my new pair of seramas just arrived at a friends house

I now have blue boy ( frizzled silkie) and miss Piggy ( silkie) from Pixie chicks I'll post some pics later after I get home

 

[smoothmule]

Thanks for the roost information. I have 2 by 4's and landscaping timbers for my large fowl. I may still look at the grapevines down by the creek. Some of them are large and wide enough it would allow them to rest with their feet sort of flat where it's the widest.

Does anyone keep a cinder block or anything like it in the cage for them to keep their beaks in shape? I am thinking that one of those abrasive blocks in the beauty section that you use to remove rough skin from your heels might work. It's a pumice type thing I think, no color or perfume or anything on them. I can zip tie one about head level on the cage and see if any of them use it. I've watched my bigger hens run their beaks across rough things out in the yard, kind of like they're wiping their beak but I figure it's more likely they're sharpening or shaping it. No sense putting it on the floor of the cage, they might keep their nails down too but more likely they'd just poop all over it. I actually already have a bag of pumice pieces, I may try that now.


Muddy, Congrats! I will probably offer my frizzles later. I want to see them mature first to see how good the type is as well as see if I can resist them,

We'll see. You need to post photo's when you get something new!!

Catwalk, such cuties! Love the lil chocochick but they're all adorable.

Juliette, thanks

I'm still thinking about an insulated building for these guys for winter, it was down to 13 below this winter so I really have to have something I can heat but until then, the garage is theirs in the winter and they'll enjoy the great outdoors for as long as the weather permits. Some years, it isn't so horridly cold for more than 2 to 3 months. That doesn't seem such a long time to live in the garage. It's not so warm that it would be shocking to come outside in the spring.

Cathy

 

[thecochincoop]

none of my birds will use a perch

 

[Ok_Junebug]

Stopping by to claim bragging rights. (@@@@@@@@ That's me doing the Happy Dance. @@@@@@) Last week I sent (mailed) a quad of black Silkied Serama to the Cajun Classic. Jerry's young grandsons, Blaine and Hunter, showed my birds for me. The mail lady brought them back today sitting on a stack of ribbons. I gave them a drink of water and took these pictures.

Cajun Classic 2011 Champion American Silkied Serama Cock and Champion American Silkied Serama Hen

Reserve Champion American Silkied Serama Cock

 

[smoothmule]

Mine love to rooster but my cages have been too short to get them more than a few inches off the ground. The cage is 5 foot by 2 foot but the ceiling is only about 20 inches. I've made makeshift perches and they love playing on them and will roost on them at night too. I had moved Cici and Blu-T to a smallish cage that's inside the pen where my 5 big hens and rooster live and when the big girls lay in mid morning, I let them all out to free range in the yard and let Cici and Blu-T out in the large pen. The top is covered and there is small wire in the corners, it's a chain link pen. They are all over the place clucking and climbing in and out of their cage. They had only been in the cage for a couple nights and I went out to let the big hens back in to go to bed and put Cici and Blu back in the cage for bedtime and those two were already in their cage, waiting on me to close them up. They're so smart