~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[SunnyCalifornia]

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You just never know what you'll get! Maybe some of those neat tri-colored babies, or a mille fleur? Yes, go ahead and try it! You're breeding for type right now, so don't worry about colors at all.

 

[Larkspur88]

Asked earlier but since I'm on a time limit going to ask again...

Any Kentucky serama breeders here with any for sale? My hubby is in Georgetown Kentucky through the weekend and I am looking to buy a few more!

 

[seramasrus]

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What part of SC do you live, I live in Arden NC (Asheville) and work in Greenville SC. I will have some to sell shortly, and I am going to sell a rooster that I got off of Jerry, because I going to keep some of the one or two that I am raising off of him if they have nice type, and also I am buying another one off of him. So if you are not to far from NC, maybe you guys can come up and look at what I have sometime.

 

[Ok_Junebug]

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When I'm table training birds to show, I put them on a small grooming table (carpeted) and put food and water with them...usually put a bonded pair on the table together for confidence...I may only show one of them,, but a companion takes away a lot of stress...I just let them cruz around on the table all day...(this is inside--in a room where I am working...if one hops down, I just put him back...they soon become so relaxed its just like they're living there. When we get good on the table indoors, I have a safe place outdoors with a table where we go (only when I can be with them). Then we practice being on a table outdoors.

At what age do you start them on the table, I plan on showing a few of mine next year and have been trying to work with mine some. They are between 8 to 10 weeks of age.

I don't do any training on chicks..just feed, clean and watch them grow...by the time they're young adults, they've figured out that I'm the 'lady with all the good things to eat' and I have to push them off my arm when I open the cage door. I start table training a few days or weeks before I'm going to show...it usually doesn't take long.

 

[Larkspur88]

I am in sumter. So a little bit of a drive. Not terrible, but it might make my husband cry. Lol! I just decided to take a chance and see if there were breeders where he is at. I know he's in an area with a lot of farmland. And it's too dang hot to ship and shipping jacks prices up. I was extremely lucky with the deal I got with the ones I have now. I am looking mainly for girls but I may be partial to a friendly roo. My favorite chicken out of all my chickens is one of my Serama Roos right now. I carry him around my house like a toy. And he sleeps in my lap when I watch tv.

 

[muddyhorse]

serama crisis averted

last night when we got home I found two serama chicks outside of the coop. mom had abandoned them and they were very cold. I brought them inside and put them in the dickey incubator to warm them up. this morning I went to get them out now bright eyed and happy when one jumped out of my hand and rocketed off in to my rather cluttered basement

. after several minutes of fruitless searching I went out and got mommy and put her in a cage to bait the baby. I sat down on the steps to wait. finally I heard the sounds of faint peeping coming from the Christmas decorations. the baby was huddled in a fake poinsettia covered in cob webs. it is now resting comfortably with some other serama babies.

 

[CrazyChickensEverwhere]

I have a question about hatching/ incubation'


Ok. I was reading on here some of you don't go into lockdown you just leave the humidity. Well when I am first starting out on seramas I would like to hatch as much as I can. Can I do a staggared hatch? first day put 2 eggs in, next day 6, next day 2.... and sooo on.. ?

 

[Carolynspeeps]

That is some story...crazy chickens. I am sure you were in a panic. Glad it all worked out!

 

[muddyhorse]

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you can store eggs up to 9-10 days before you start to lose fertility. put them in an egg carton big end up and store them some place cool but not cold. after you have some eggs saved up pop them in the incubator.

 

[CrazyChickensEverwhere]

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you can store eggs up to 9-10 days before you start to lose fertility. put them in an egg carton big end up and store them some place cool but not cold. after you have some eggs saved up pop them in the incubator.

Thanks for the reply. I want to do that. but i'm starting off with to adult hens, let them lay for a week, pop them eggs in the bator, let lay for another week pop them in to, and so on, Would that be ok?