Serama Eggs

[Ryanrockster62]

I’m thinking about hatching my own Serama eggs and I just wondered if anyone had any tips or warnings.

 

[SulkyBantam]

Seramas are a little hard to hatch, some of them die in the egg and the others are very delicate. But if you go for it, post pics!

 

[Ryanrockster62]

Thank you so much, I will!

 

[Tonyroo]

I just hatched some Serama chicks, bought them off Ebay, got 18 eggs, hatched only 7. So that's the odds you might experience. But I just incubated them like normal chicken eggs. Candled them on day 7, 14, 17, I put them in lockdown on day 17. and all 7 hatched on day 20.
If that helps.

 

[SulkyBantam]

By the way, Seramas inherited a fatal gene from the Japanese bantams meaning 1 in 4 eggs don't hatch.

 

[SulkyBantam]

Setramas are a joy as chicks but, they don't always make it to adulthood:
'Also Seramas can carry a lethal gene in them called the 'diluted gene', which comes from the Japanese bantam, this means that chicks, could die 24 hours after hatching, or die prematurely (not for the light hearted).'

 

[Henrietta 65]

Yes seramas can be very hard to hatch I bought 3 chicks from a breeder 6 months on they all great and such a friendly breed he is a pic of my cockerel Russel Crowe if you do hatch any make sure u show us some pictures

 

[SulkyBantam]

I love that roo!

 

[Henrietta 65]

Ahh thankyou I love him to

 

[SulkyBantam]

He's so beautiful, I'm hopefully getting a roo like him but it won't be nearly as pretty! Have you shown him?