Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

[shahtir101]

Here are a few of my boys... the last two have grown up to be beautiful guys, black and brown crele/barred coloring. Some of the hens I lost : ( but I have their daughters and a couple of them are tiny frizzles... I have a few dominant white hens that I think I will put with a couple frizzled roos so at least half the white chicks will be frizzled : )

Here are a few of my boys... the last two have grown up to be beautiful guys, black and brown crele/barred coloring. Some of the hens I lost : ( but I have their daughters and a couple of them are tiny frizzles... I have a few dominant white hens that I think I will put with a couple frizzled roos so at least half the white chicks will be frizzled : )

So beautiful. I'm sorry about the ones you lost though.

 

[Bryam]

Any idea of what these chicks are? Frizzles, silkies, male or female? Lol! Any info would be great! The pictures of the white chicks are two different birds!

 

[formerchickenlass]

Any idea of what these chicks are? Frizzles, silkies, male or female? Lol! Any info would be great! The pictures of the white chicks are two different birds!

The white one with the wing feathers curling outward looks like a frizzle. The other one appears normal feathered. Can't see the darker ones well enough to tell anything. Look too young to sex. In another week or two the combs on your roosters will look larger and start turning red. You can also watch their behavior & make an educated guess. The roosters are usually more aggressive and more apt to perch high when it's available. But some females will behave that way as well.

 

[formerchickenlass]

I keep all my chicks together. I have noticed that the pullets raised without roosters are much less tolerant of them later. I really can't blame them, but I do want my eggs fertilized.

Ah, that's good to know.

In an earlier message I believe you mentioned selling some pairs? If you don't mind I'd like to ask you a couple questions about selling seramas. I have enough chicks at this point that I will have to sell some eventually, actually I listed a couple of them online but I think maybe it's just not the right time of year to sell chicks. Anyway, would it be okay if I PM'd you?

BTW, so sorry to hear about your further losses. It's hard to even imagine going through it twice so soon. *hugs*

 

[darkbluespace]

Feel free to message me : ). I have found that I can sell birds when I least expect to be able to. I have sold more Serama pairs in the last month than in the summer and people will often buy birds or chicks as holiday gifts. Also, just after New Years, people start thinking about spring, gardening and hatching and raising birds so if I have any for sale I try to keep them advertised.


I am setting some eggs today for the New Years hatch a long, 18 silkie eggs and 3 Serama eggs, which are all I have gotten in a while since I sold so many birds and it has been very dark and wet here.

 

[darkbluespace]

Any idea of what these chicks are? Frizzles, silkies, male or female? Lol! Any info would be great! The pictures of the white chicks are two different birds!

Cute frizzle feathers on that white chick. The dark one almost looks like it might be frizzled too, but it is hard to tell for sure. It is probably easier for you to tell already, the feathers come in so fast.

 

[Bryam]

Cute frizzle feathers on that white chick. The dark one almost looks like it might be frizzled too, but it is hard to tell for sure. It is probably easier for you to tell already, the feathers come in so fast.

Yup, the dark one and the white one are both frizzles!!

 

[Skink]

A couple of my gals co-brooded and managed to hatch.. oh no! Only one egg. Now they are sharing mom duty, both of them are covering it and they don't seem to be fighting about it or getting in to a tiff with one another. Dad is still in the pen and he's on high alert standing guard over them. What a cute little butt it turned out to be too!I bet it'd be too much to hope that it turns out to be mottled..




Also, weird silver chick from the last batch turned out to be a blue! I didn't even notice their dad was one, I seem to have trouble telling my blues from my blacks which is ridiculous because once I notice I can't unsee it. Here is Sesame, Pigpen, Scribble and Inky

 

[darkbluespace]

A couple of my gals co-brooded and managed to hatch.. oh no! Only one egg. Now they are sharing mom duty, both of them are covering it and they don't seem to be fighting about it or getting in to a tiff with one another. Dad is still in the pen and he's on high alert standing guard over them. What a cute little butt it turned out to be too!I bet it'd be too much to hope that it turns out to be mottled.. Also, weird silver chick from the last batch turned out to be a blue! I didn't even notice their dad was one, I seem to have trouble telling my blues from my blacks which is ridiculous because once I notice I can't unsee it. Here is Sesame, Pigpen, Scribble and Inky

That is a super cute baby! I love those spots on her beak. The last two hens that sat together hatched 2 but then they both didn't make it, poor things. If I don't separate the mama and babies, it just doesn't work out well for me. I hope yours do better, love that chick!

 

[formerchickenlass]

A couple of my gals co-brooded and managed to hatch.. oh no! Only one egg. Now they are sharing mom duty, both of them are covering it and they don't seem to be fighting about it or getting in to a tiff with one another. Dad is still in the pen and he's on high alert standing guard over them. What a cute little butt it turned out to be too!I bet it'd be too much to hope that it turns out to be mottled..




Also, weird silver chick from the last batch turned out to be a blue! I didn't even notice their dad was one, I seem to have trouble telling my blues from my blacks which is ridiculous because once I notice I can't unsee it. Here is Sesame, Pigpen, Scribble and Inky

That little one's a total cutie! I got a couple in my latest hatch that look similar and I'm completely smitten... and also hoping one or both is mottled!

What is the difference between a blue and a black, is a blue just lighter? Yeah I keep thinking I need to get that Serama Colours book.

So my latest group hatched a couple days ago. I originally set 23 eggs, all were fertile but in the end only 8 hatched. I hand turned them this time and 17 made it to lockdown... On the upside I'm getting kind of overwhelmed with birds so I'm glad there weren't 23 chicks! But there's definitely a problem here. I'm thinking maybe either I'm not getting the incubator completely disinfected, or there's something wrong with the breeder diet.

I also experienced some issues this time with pipping. One pipped too low and died. Another went low but came out fine. A third pipped but couldn't zip, thankfully I was able to hatch it out with no trouble. I think maybe keeping them on their sides and hand turning caused this? Not sure but I will try the Brinsea rails and auto turner again next time.

At any rate, this is my last hatch for awhile. I want to let these birds all grow out and get some sold before I hatch again. I'm going to get some of that fancy disinfectant solution before I store the incubator away and put my birds on vitamins for a month or so before I start hatching again.

And here are the little peanuts!





All the different colors! So addicting!