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Hi All,

Any one wanna trade roosters and/or drakes for females? Tractor Supply managed to give me loads of boys when I asked for all girls... :-(

I have 2 golden laced Wyandotte roosters, 2 rouen drakes and a pekin drake that I want to rehome. I want females of any breed chicken except buff orpington (have 1) and sex link (have 2) and female ducks of just about any breed except muscovies (they creep me out).

I'm in the Lewsiburg area.

Silvester
 
My peeps said:
Yesterday was coop cleaning day so I took some pictures while I was out there. The run was so muddy and gross (and smelly!) it's nice to see it clean now.



When I ordered the white rock chicks they were suppose to be all female. This one looks different from all the rest. It's leg has always been like this but he/she was able to get around and was the sweetest chick so we kept it. Now it's become an ankle pecker and might be my practice chicken for freezer camp. No crowing yet (they hatched in the beginning of April). Does this look like a White rock rooster?





Here are my 2 fluff butt broody hen's in a bucket! Silly girls!



First time out free ranging with the big kids. A few bully moments but they started to get along towards the end. Still not ready for the big coop.







My little helper. She loves the chickens and I love that she isn't afraid of them. Just another perk of having chickens when the kids are little.









My Easter Eggers and Serama. She is the oldest of the 3 and looks like a brand new chick! I might need a few more of those :)
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Such lovely pictures!!
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Your lil helper is so CUTE! Aren't the Serama's so cute!! I love ours so much, and they're so cuddly!
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A few pics of the new coop and run. Hope we can get the girls moved in to their new home OK tonight. Might have to "help" them in the first time like we did in their first coop. I'm so happy to have a larger area for them to sleep & roam in. They seem to love the newly expanded run area, they have been in it for a few weeks now. They went from a real small enclosed run, about 72" to the 9X11' run. Now I just hope we can get the other coop out of the enclosed area. We had originally planned on keeping them in the original coop in the expanded run area (lovely Amish built which they only used for less than 2 months...hope to be able to sell it if we can get it out...lol) My hubby generously donated his storage shed which butts up against their run area...don't know why we didn't think of doing that before we paid $500 for the original coop.....live & learn I guess.



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Very nice!

rdilbarova said:
What are Seramas exactly? Are they their own breed, or is Serama a classification like Bantam is?
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They are their own breed. It was developed in either 2000 or 2001 somewhere in the far East, I want to say Indonesia, and is the smallest chicken breed in the world. They come in 3 feather types and at least 2 body sizes. The feather types are smooth, silkied and frizzled. Body types I know of are (I think) standard and micro. Normally it takes about 5 serama eggs to equal 1 grade A large egg. They are very heat hardy but not cold tolerant, which is why ours are going to winter indoors. And they very prone to broodiness. That's all I remember off the top of my head.

ETA: they're listed under the breeds section on here if you want more info on them.
 
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MotorcycleChick said:
I am about 200 posts behind, so I may not be as informed about this comment as I should be. That disclaimer being said, Cochins are the quietest birds I know of.
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I agree. If you needed a stealth chicken, the stealthiest would be a bantam cochin, what about a silkie? The one I have makes so noise at all. She is just some black fuzz walking around in the barn.......................
 
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Such lovely pictures!!
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Your lil helper is so CUTE! Aren't the Serama's so cute!! I love ours so much, and they're so cuddly! Very nice! They are their own breed. It was developed in either 2000 or 2001 somewhere in the far East, I want to say Indonesia, and is the smallest chicken breed in the world. They come in 3 feather types and at least 2 body sizes. The feather types are smooth, silkied and frizzled. Body types I know of are (I think) standard and micro. Normally it takes about 5 serama eggs to equal 1 grade A large egg. They are very heat hardy but not cold tolerant, which is why ours are going to winter indoors. And they very prone to broodiness. That's all I remember off the top of my head. ETA: they're listed under the breeds section on here if you want more info on them.
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My serama hatched from an egg I ordered on eBay. How do you know if it is standard or micro? She is so tiny I can't imagine a tinier one! Still not sure what I will do in the winter. She is the only one I have so I would hate to bring her in alone. I'm thinking hubby might have to heat one of the coops so she can stay outside.,....or I can hatch a few more before winter. Lol. If you have any fertile serama eggs come spring I would be willing to buy some.
 
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My serama hatched from an egg I ordered on eBay. How do you know if it is standard or micro? She is so tiny I can't imagine a tinier one! Still not sure what I will do in the winter. She is the only one I have so I would hate to bring her in alone. I'm thinking hubby might have to heat one of the coops so she can stay outside.,....or I can hatch a few more before winter. Lol. If you have any fertile serama eggs come spring I would be willing to buy some.
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From what I've read/been told you can't be sure about the body type until they are about a year old, once they're fully grown. One of the pairs we'll be picking up is near breeding age, they're 5 months, so I might have eggs for ya before Spring. There's also a lady not too far from me who has hatching eggs and some adults for sale, the chicks are still too young for here to feel comfortable selling them yet. But here's her website: http://www.oneilsminifarm.com/. I haven't gotten any from her yet, but she has a lot of pics of her breeders, and I plan to get some once the chicks are old enough.
As far as winter, from what I've read a trio only needs a 2' x 4' space, and I guess they were actually bred to be "indoor" chickens and handle confinement better than just about any other breed, as well as being more affectionate towards humans than most breeds. Ours are in a bi-level ferret cage, and we have some other cages we'll be keeping the new ones in.
ETA: They'll be in the cages over winter, and at night next year. I'm making a run for them for nice weather, but since they're great fliers I'm trying to figure out how tall it'll need to be...
 
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Thanks, we had fun working on it. It's still not quite done but the girls are spending their first night there. We had to "help" them in. I enticed them in earlier in the day with watermelon but at roosting time they went in but came right back out...just didn't look like home to them yet I guess....lol
 

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