sebright thread

[TW1Kell]

Ihavechickens2: it's entirely possible that the chick's humidity wasn't perfect during the final days of incubating, and the chick's back stuck to the shell. During hatching, the down was stuck, and the lil one tore the down off as part of the escape process. I'd put my money on that bet, if it were up to me. It's a fairly normal occurance, from what I've read about the whole process. The cure is to just let it grow and feather out, and keep it warm, as normal. The main thing would be to avoid it, in the future. Make sure there's enough moisture/water in your 'bator, during the whole 21 day+ process. Too much and too little is a fine line, from the way I understand it.

 

[ihavechickens2]

Ihavechickens2: it's entirely possible that the chick's humidity wasn't perfect during the final days of incubating, and the chick's back stuck to the shell. During hatching, the down was stuck, and the lil one tore the down off as part of the escape process. I'd put my money on that bet, if it were up to me. It's a fairly normal occurance, from what I've read about the whole process. The cure is to just let it grow and feather out, and keep it warm, as normal. The main thing would be to avoid it, in the future. Make sure there's enough moisture/water in your 'bator, during the whole 21 day+ process. Too much and too little is a fine line, from the way I understand it.

ok thanks. thats what looks like what happened, it has no fluff on its back. i had 20 eggs hatch out of 24 and its the only one that, that happened to.

 

[TW1Kell]

I have read that 'Brights aren't good cold-weather birds, but how cold are we talking about? It's been hitting the 20's and 30's, in North Mississippi, and my adult birds lived their 1st year in a barnstall converted to a pen by caging it in. I have had them in a spare bedroom since Saturday where I kept the temp around 60-ish. I have built them a new tractor with a 6 feet run, and want to let them enjoy the sunshine of 60-70 degree days. The lows for the 8-day forecast shows upper 30's as lows, but 40's for the most part. Am I safe putting them in their new home, today? Will the 60 degree room soften them up? The house portion of their tractor is a 2' cube with a 10"x10" door, which is what my other, comparably-sized Bantees seem to like. It keeps the wind out, when turned the right way, and they get their lil houses failry warm from body heat. Ya'all think I'm safe, letting them move in?

My trepidation is caused by my having had to search for so long to find any 'Brights, and I really don't want to harm the lil boogers now that I have some. They really surprised me by how quickly they warmed up to me. At first (1st 2 days), they were very flighty. By day 3, the lil Roo actually jumped onto my arm to get a hop out of the cage and stood on the cage and let me take pics of him. They have been out, in their cage, when it was warm, during they day. Think they'd be ok, at night with upper 30's and lower 40's? I'm accustomed to my standard Amies and EE's who play in snow, and laugh off torrential rains. I don't know how sturdy/robust these lil 'Brighhts are.

(I have to stop being so anal retentive about typos, don't I? haha!)

 

[annabell254]

My brite girl is the sweetest of all of my 50+ and 9 breeds of chickens....including my silkie girls!!!!! I got the silkies to be good sweet moms and hatch my eggs..... but spring has come and only one silkie has gone broody... and she would bite me when I would check eggs, and then she taught her shick to stay away from me.... But my Bright girl however.... went broody as soon as she saw the first silkies chicks running around and she is the SWEETEST mom ever... I could handel the eggs with only a mild scolding from her...and some fluffy feathers

and now that the chicks have hatched she will bring them right up to me and they will hop right on my lap!!!! She has always been a sweet one .... but now she is truly perfect


a week before hatch

 

[shadow rabbit10]

How big are Sebrights? I am getting one in June. I was wondering if they were smaller than an OEGB?

 

[Helen in the Desert]

They are pretty small, don't know about compared to OEGB. They are about the same size as my D'uccles, if that helps

 

[dsfrango]

How big are Sebrights? I am getting one in June. I was wondering if they were smaller than an OEGB?

Yup, there about the same size as the OEGB's. At least the SQ ones. The pet quality tend to b a bit bigger....usually but only a couple oz difference

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Thanks! My friend showed me her OEGB and I was hoping that my Sebright would be similar in size!

 

[TW1Kell]

I have a lil Roo and Hen that I have been told the Roo is an OEGB that is about half the size of my 'Brights. The hen is identical to the Silver Duckwing that I bought, so I assume that's what she is. They were bred to be very small, tho, and the breeder told me that they are the product of about 7-8 years of his hatching only the smallest eggs and keeping the smallest of each clutch. He sells all that are not this especially diminutive size. They are shown in this thread as "LG and his Ladies", in my 1st or 2nd post. I'm not at home, so I can't just pull up the pics.

 

[Silseb]

Cocks are 22 oz and Hens 20 oz when fully grown, over a year old. Cockerels are 20 oz and pullets 18 oz. They are the 2nd smallest chicken in the world- the Malaysian Serama is the only breed that is smaller. Old English Game Bantams are only slightly larger.
Hatchery stock can be quite a bit larger.