Show me your stunning Sebrights!

[JacinLarkwell]

I'll get pics of my 3 girls (Honey, Love and Darling) later. They're almost the most friendly including the polish. When they're hungry they jump right on top of the closest person.

 

[The Kooky Kiwi]

My sebright family (and some sebrighty project mixes) <3

 

[Chicalina]

Trouble doesn't care to be held / restrained. She's not shy, though. As a young pullet she would always run or fly to us for treats..... but run away screaming if we tried to pick her up or even touch her. (Wiggled/squirmed if we held her.) So, we gave positive reinforcement for taking food from us and slowly got her to step on our hand. Her sitting on us is always in her control. She stays in a lap or on a shoulder as long as no one is trying to grab her. Trouble's an odd, little, feisty bird with a surplus of personality. Our other bantams are extreme cuddlers. They relax and melt into your body (even fall asleep) when being held. We have a separate bantam coop for them in the winter when it's cold. Trouble is too intense. She is a top hen among chickens weighing 8-15lbs, so we don't dare allow her to be with little chickens her size. She's also very vocal and it sounds like she's saying chicken swears when she's upset. Trouble is even more vocal when broody.

Once she went broody with our bantam orp and we set up a nice "apartment" for them. Unlike other broody pairs, they refused to share and needed separate nests. Once her eggs hatched, Trouble took her chicks and was out of there! She's a good mama but teaches her chicks how to go under the fences to steal strawberries, dust bath in my herb garden, and visit the neighbors. That why she is now only allowed to incubate jumbo orps or sometimes turkey eggs. (Any type of chick that in a couple weeks will grow too large to continue fitting under the fence.)
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Oh my, that photo of her trying to brood those huge chicks has done me in!!!!

 

[Chicalina]

My sebright family (and some sebrighty project mixes) <3

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oh wow, how did you get that double lacing?

 

[Chicalina]

My broody experience didn't go to well. started with 5 eggs. 2 gone (eaten?), 1 severely cracked, 2 alive at hatch time. 1 hatched but got pecked in the head by another hen and died. I should have separated my broody.

Always separate the broody. I learned this the hard way when I tried to reintegrate mama and 4 day olds with the flock. Now I wait 2 weeks.

 

[Chicalina]

Sadly my little Brightstar went missing last week. I'm devastated .

Still hoping she will turn up but very worried about her.

Replying to my own post here, but I can report that Brightstar is back!!!!!!

After searching all the neighbours gardens, and putting up leaflets and posting online onocal groups , she turned up in my garden, having made a secret nest in a place I swear I looked 3 times, with 13 eggs in!!!!!

None were fertile so I ditched the nest and she is now happily back in the flock. I thought I'd never see her again so I'm really happy.

 

[The Kooky Kiwi]

oh wow, how did you get that double lacing?

My original breeding was a sebright to a pekin - this broke up the combination of genes required to make the full and proper lacing. When I bred the first generation chicks there was a "chance" of recombining the lacing genes together but in these girls.. I was missing one - so instead of getting single lace, I got double lace. Very pretty outcome though <3

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Here they are. Honey is a darker buff and Darling has some black spots on her lacing. Love is the only normal one

 

[The Kooky Kiwi]

Here they are. Honey is a darker buff and Darling has some black spots on her lacing. Love is the only normal one
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I wish we had the colour varieties you guys have.
Here we only have 3.
But I'm working on changing that!!!!

 

[Faraday40]

Here they are. Honey is a darker buff and Darling has some black spots on her lacing. Love is the only normal one
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Very pretty & cool breeding color project. I've never seen that Sebright pattern before. (Only the reg gold & silver) I suppose someone may do a blue laced project someday.

..... Of course, I can barely control my ONE Sebright. I can't imagine having multiples like her.