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[chickensnewtome]

Oxpat, I need you to talk to my hubby. I did get him to agree it takes 3 seramas or 2 normal bantams to match 1 lf chicken in chicken math, but they still count.

I think Men talk a different language, I am sure Oxpat will have to explain it with beers or something for our husbands to get it!

 

[Bunnylady]

Baby

has a few Seramas. They are cute little rascals, I have to give them that. Some are really tame. Temperamentally, I'd rate them as reasonably calm and tolerant. I've only had one hen go broody, and she did a terrific job raising the clutch she hatched. I wound up moving her and her brood into a tote in the living room because it was January.

While she was a house guest, I learned that she was one of them-thar crowing hens. It was a bit of a shock the first time I heard her crow! The roos can be a little bit scrappy, but we've had several penned together and they got along fine. A few of the little guys are what Baby

and I call "chicken ventriloquists;" because they crow with their beaks closed, they are much quieter.

 

[ozexpat]

Oxpat, I need you to talk to my hubby. I did get him to agree it takes 3 seramas or 2 normal bantams to match 1 lf chicken in chicken math, but they still count.

tell him they dont count when:

Cockerals - they are food not chickens
Chicks - they are research and development

Also

Seramas lay about 75-120 eggs a year and you need 4-5 serama eggs to equal an Leghorn egg. The leghorn will lay 320+ eggs a year. SO based on egg production, the serama is 1/3 x 1/4 or 1/12 of a real chicken.

If using weight, then a Serama is 1/8th the size of a Brahma or Orpington hen.

So...

Using conservative chicken math, there are 8 seramas to a large fowl, of which cockerals dont count. Thats 16 Seramas for every one that your husband counts.

And if that does not work, cut him off for a month. lol That will.

 

[Arielle]

 

[chickadoodles]

X2

 

[insanity]

I had to tell my hubby about that chicken math....He said we are weird and shook his head.I think its hilarious and totally logical.

 

[Wisher1000]

And if that does not work, cut him off for a month. lol That will.

Isn't this against the rules in the man-club? Won't you be ex-communicated from the group for even suggesting this? Oh, wait ...... Oz, ExPat of the man-clan..... now I get it!

 

[ozexpat]

Isn't this against the rules in the man-club? Won't you be ex-communicated from the group for even suggesting this? Oh, wait ...... Oz, ExPat of the man-clan..... now I get it!

sometimes i break the rules of the man club - especially when chickens are involed

 

[ronott1]

The Pita Pintas are 5 weeks old now. The Golden one is an EO Marraduna Basque Cockerel.

 

[chickadoodles]

The Pita Pintas are 5 weeks old now. The Golden one is an EO Marraduna Basque Cockerel.

They are very nice looking birds Ron!