Hello
I have been raising birds of many different species for many years. Recently I ordered some serama and silkie eggs to hatch. It has been one thing after another. First, some of the eggs were damaged in shipping. Secondly, my incubator quit holding a constant temperature. I moved the eggs to broody hens. Third, one hen got on the wrong nest (not even close to the original nest) and all those eggs were ruined. Today, the lighting system broke down in the bird room and the broody hens went nuts while I tried to get the lighting to go again. So now from 44 eggs I'm down to 12 serama eggs and 5 silkie eggs that are still developing. I can't help but wonder, "What next?"
Serama chickens are new to me and I'm really hoping nothing more happens. With the serama I started with 20 eggs and now I'm down to 12; 8 under one broody and 4 under another. I have read that there is a lethal factor with serama eggs and to expect 25% to die while developing in the egg. Does this mean that on average 25% die throughout the incubation process or is this something that happens at the time of hatching? I've never dealt with lethal factors so I'm unsure how it works.
nchls school
I have been raising birds of many different species for many years. Recently I ordered some serama and silkie eggs to hatch. It has been one thing after another. First, some of the eggs were damaged in shipping. Secondly, my incubator quit holding a constant temperature. I moved the eggs to broody hens. Third, one hen got on the wrong nest (not even close to the original nest) and all those eggs were ruined. Today, the lighting system broke down in the bird room and the broody hens went nuts while I tried to get the lighting to go again. So now from 44 eggs I'm down to 12 serama eggs and 5 silkie eggs that are still developing. I can't help but wonder, "What next?"
Serama chickens are new to me and I'm really hoping nothing more happens. With the serama I started with 20 eggs and now I'm down to 12; 8 under one broody and 4 under another. I have read that there is a lethal factor with serama eggs and to expect 25% to die while developing in the egg. Does this mean that on average 25% die throughout the incubation process or is this something that happens at the time of hatching? I've never dealt with lethal factors so I'm unsure how it works.
nchls school
I've not incubated seramas myself but do have a friend who had had mixed results from them but also suffered incubator troubles too. Here is a link for a serama thread 
