Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

[kjscortez]

How often does an egg start developing and then stop after the veins form? I think I lost another one.

First time to try hatching serama eggs...second time using incubator.

 

[Fluffyserama]

How often does an egg start developing and then stop after the veins form? I think I lost another one.

First time to try hatching serama eggs...second time using incubator.

Are the eggs shipped? Trying to incubate shipped serama eggs is beating my spirit. I've had quite a few quit on me. I think I still have 4 good ones ..... down from 24.

I'm wishing you luck!!!!

 

[kjscortez]

How often does an egg start developing and then stop after the veins form? I think I lost another one.

First time to try hatching serama eggs...second time using incubator.

Are the eggs shipped? Trying to incubate shipped serama eggs is beating my spirit. I've had quite a few quit on me. I think I still have 4 good ones ..... down from 24.

I'm wishing you luck!!!!

I am incubating shipped bantam cochin eggs and my own serama eggs from my little hen.
Serama eggs may not be my thing. Lol

 

[darkbluespace]

I am incubating shipped bantam cochin eggs and my own serama eggs from my little hen.
Serama eggs may not be my thing. Lol

Quitters do happen, shipped eggs or not. When you hatch from your own birds you have the chance to keep trying and figure out what works for your eggs. It is not too long before any Serama hen will go broody and hatch out a tiny army for you!

 

[kjscortez]

From my existing seramas... I have 4 left.. lockdown is tomorrow

I'm already collecting fertile eggs again...this time, should I try keeping them cooler, or is room temp adequate?
I'll be putting them in after I've gathered 6-8.
I thought maybe I've lost some because of keeping them at room temperature...around 72-74.

 

[Bryam]

I have about 30 Serama eggs in my incubator. This is the first time I breed frizzles to frizzles, i am curious to see what they produce. The rooster is a blue splash frizzle and i have pure white hen, a millefleurs hen and a blue hen all frizzles!! I do have pure black srtaight feathered hen in the mix too! Anybody ever breed frizzles to frizzles before? I hope to get atleast a few smooths in the batch! Any ideas on colors thry will produce black vs blue?

Do you guys hsnd turn your eggs? Or put them in a turner? Wondering which way gives better hatch results?

Thanks!

 

[Fluffyserama]

I have about 30 Serama eggs in my incubator. This is the first time I breed frizzles to frizzles, i am curious to see what they produce. The rooster is a blue splash frizzle and i have pure white hen, a millefleurs hen and a blue hen all frizzles!! I do have pure black straight feathered hen in the mix too! Anybody ever breed frizzles to frizzles before? I hope to get atleast a few smooths in the batch! Any ideas on colors thry will produce black vs blue?

Do you guys hand turn your eggs? Or put them in a turner? Wondering which way gives better hatch results?

Thanks!

So breeding frizzle to frizzle will produce 1/4 straight feather, 1/2 frizzled (1 frizzle gene) 1/4 frazzled (2 frizzle genes) the frazzled birds will most likely have lots of feather breakage issues and will be balding most if not all the time. Balding frazzled birds have WAY more issues with low temp than others. It is possible to have a bird that carries a frizzle restrictor gene that inhibits breakage from happening, but most do not. From what I understand people breed frazzled only because if that bird is breed to a straight feathered 100% of the offspring will be frizzled.

 

[Fluffyserama]

So I have 3 serama eggs that have made it to lock down, all have funky air cells. I have 1 internal pip so far. I'll give it til tomorrow morning to pip externally then i'm getting it out of there. I don't want to make the same mistakes I did last hatch.

 

[Bryam]

So breeding frizzle to frizzle will produce 1/4 straight feather, 1/2 frizzled (1 frizzle gene) 1/4 frazzled (2 frizzle genes) the frazzled birds will most likely have lots of feather breakage issues and will be balding most if not all the time.  Balding frazzled birds have WAY more issues with low temp than others. It is possible to have a bird that carries a frizzle restrictor gene that inhibits breakage from happening, but most do not. From what I understand people breed frazzled only because if that bird is breed to a straight feathered 100% of the offspring will be frizzled. 

Okay, most of the checks will be nice looking set on the chickens? Only if you will have some feather breakage and won't be as fluffy.

 

[Fluffyserama]

Okay, most of the checks will be nice looking set on the chickens? Only if you will have some feather breakage and won't be as fluffy.

here is a picture of a bird with two frizzle genes and no frizzle restrictor.

also take a look here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/647353/cochin-bantams-and-frizzle-cochin-bantams/790