serama colors in OEGB?

[bantiesrule]

I just love the variety of colors that the seramas come in. If you left the different colors of OEGs mix would they eventually get that much variety or would they still breed to more of the set patterns?

 

[Heather08]

If im not mistaken the next 5 year goal of the seramas is to(start) set color groups type and get more precise like the OEGB. The reason the serama is this way at the moment is due to the limited gene pool that was imported in 2000? That is what I thought I read on them.

 

[catwalk]

Seramas are the kaleidoscope they are because they were bred for a very long time with no regard to color. With the variety of colors that oegb's come in, I'm sure that they would end up the same if they were mixed. But, correct that the SCNA is working to standardize a few colors, like white, black, wheaten, and such, to eventually be shown in variety categories.

 

[Penturner]

I have been reading a lot on the Serama in the last couple of weeks. When I first found out about them the information pretty much said that they do not breed true to anything. Not size, color, feather type, pattern etc. I then found the SCNA and got at least the impression that some degree of change has been made in regard to at least some traits. I have not yet been able to see much in the way of specifics or the success. I do get the impression that if your information is more than a couple of years old it is probably out dated though. Things seem to be moving pretty fast in regard to the Serama. I actually got some eggs and am trying to hatch them. more because I needed a bird to test the security of my pen with and they looked interesting to me. Man was that a mistake! I think you need a Bachelors degree in Poultry science to even have a prayer with these things.
They do make a great example of the need for Responsible breeding though. they are a genetic mess to the point they could became extinct simply because they cannot reproduce.
They lay eggs sort of sporadically and seasonally, when they do the eggs stand a fair chance of not even being fertile. and even if they are your chances are not good at being able to successfully incubate it so you have to rely on broody hens to improve those odds. Even then I am not sure that your hens stand a very good chance of even knowing how to set on a nest. then if you do manage to overcome all those hurdles out will hatch a rooster that is not able to master the acrobatics of successfully breeding. I think that pretty much covered it. the smart money is on failure in one way or another. It's probably part of what attracted me to them in the first place. I needed something to help me relax, my wife said so. She doesn't seem to be all that impressed with the Serama idea though. For such a tiny bird they are a really big Pain.

 

[silkieone]

Hi
I recently purchased a serama and at the time I bought it the breeder guessed that the one I got was a hen?
Well it seems to have a small comb like a hen but I kept it on my inclosed porch for almost a month and dang
if that hen looking bird didn't start trying to crow???
Still now it looks like what I would think a hen would look like but then who knows?

All I can do at this
time is wait until it either lays an egg or begins to look more like a roo,though the color is brighter than what I would
think a hen would look like,but if what I am reading all we can do is guess until an egg is produced, this serama is about 5 months old

I have heard of hens that have crowed and since the serama is somewhat new to us that I guess could happen?
I am waiting until I get an egg and then will purchase a roo from the person I got this one from and this line came from a
breeder in TN.

Just a guessing

Silkieone