I got a bunch of hatching eggs last winter that were supposed to be Serama's and two extra ones that were Frizzle/OEGB crosses.
One of the eggs that was marked frizzle/OEGB was broken when they arrived and the other one eventually hatched out what appears to be a full OEGB.
However, we had a pretty little bird from that group that we have assumed was a pure serama because that is what she (the seller) sold us. Well, this pretty little bird is a complete mystery in many ways.
She now looks nothing like a serama, other than she is tiny and her coloring. She is white with black marks on her neck and tail. She does NOT have the nice round, full breast nor the characteristic serama tail.
In fact, it almost seems like she has a dowager's hump. (Hence the nickname I've given her is Agatha after the writer.)
She recently started to grow feathers that appear to be frizzle-y.
I would love to hear opinions on what you think she may be.
Agatha is the most delightfully different bird I have ever raised. She is more like a kitten than a chicken.
We hatched and brooded her in the house and when spring came we put her outside with the rest of her hatch mates and while they loved being outdoors, she hated it.
She would stand in the yard dejected and downcast, not moving, head hung over. Whenever we came outside she would run to us to be picked up and held. She would close her eyes in apparent ecstasy and snuggle under a chin or to our breast.
She would get so depressed at being outside that I would think she was getting sick! When I would bring her back inside she would make a miraculous recovery.
She loves hanging out with us and just being near us. She delights in being held and snuggled. Having her back scratched/rubbed under her feathers makes her drop her head over, close her eyes and make grooming motions in the air with her beak. My daughter carries her around in her arms upside down like a baby.
It is the strangest thing!
Has anyone ever had a chicken that was so family/people oriented? She doesn't want to be with the other chickens at all. And being outside makes her absolutely miserable!
One of the eggs that was marked frizzle/OEGB was broken when they arrived and the other one eventually hatched out what appears to be a full OEGB.
However, we had a pretty little bird from that group that we have assumed was a pure serama because that is what she (the seller) sold us. Well, this pretty little bird is a complete mystery in many ways.
She now looks nothing like a serama, other than she is tiny and her coloring. She is white with black marks on her neck and tail. She does NOT have the nice round, full breast nor the characteristic serama tail.
In fact, it almost seems like she has a dowager's hump. (Hence the nickname I've given her is Agatha after the writer.)
She recently started to grow feathers that appear to be frizzle-y.
I would love to hear opinions on what you think she may be.
Agatha is the most delightfully different bird I have ever raised. She is more like a kitten than a chicken.
We hatched and brooded her in the house and when spring came we put her outside with the rest of her hatch mates and while they loved being outdoors, she hated it.
She would stand in the yard dejected and downcast, not moving, head hung over. Whenever we came outside she would run to us to be picked up and held. She would close her eyes in apparent ecstasy and snuggle under a chin or to our breast.
She would get so depressed at being outside that I would think she was getting sick! When I would bring her back inside she would make a miraculous recovery.
She loves hanging out with us and just being near us. She delights in being held and snuggled. Having her back scratched/rubbed under her feathers makes her drop her head over, close her eyes and make grooming motions in the air with her beak. My daughter carries her around in her arms upside down like a baby.
It is the strangest thing!
Has anyone ever had a chicken that was so family/people oriented? She doesn't want to be with the other chickens at all. And being outside makes her absolutely miserable!
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