Okay, Hay! I'm starting a new marketing campaign!
ZZ, that is Emily's baby. There was one other black chick, but it was very weak and died.
The others are doing so well....let's see $40 a chick--11 chicks.....and more on the way...:0)
Take that, Haystack!
Toto... is that you??
Uh.. Where am I??
Oh yeah, that's right... I'm in the wrong business!!!!!!!!
Ok I am really not whinning, but I want babies.... I want babies... Ok back to your thread,,,
I love all the chick pics. Could someone explain to me what is so special about seramas? Is it how they look or their logevity or eggs or what?
Actually, Loon, it is because they are so very small and tame. You can keep them in the house like parakeets. And though some of the roosters are fairly big time crowers, they are not as loud as a regular roo. Some can barely crow at all.
And then, of course, they are difficult to hatch...unless you use your own eggs and a broody.
- And have Cats' and Hays' magic formula.
Thanks for the explanation Cat. So, most people get them for pets rather than for eggs or meat? Are they about the size of a cornish hen or bigger?
Serama pullets can be`as small as 325 grams/11.46 ounces. About the size of a plump American robin.
Their eggs`are very small, but totally edible. When I have unfertilized Serama eggs I figure 3 Serama equal 1 large egg and make omelets and flans with them.
There's that "F" word again!
I think we are all mature enough to deal with the "F" word, porkpal.
Flan!
There, I said it.
But out of consideration for the more sensitive among us, I suggest we continue to refrain from using the "P" word.
Pullet?
Flan flan flan flan
Flan flan flan flan....
(sung to the Monty Python tune for Spam)
Wonderful flan!
Glorious flan!
Flan flan flan flan
Flan flan flan flan...
As much as I like Monty Python that has me singing from Oliver...
Mmmmm.....pethud pie and flan.....mmmmm
(Summerkid, careful, don't say the P-word, I always pass out and hit my head)
Wren sent me 5 bags of pethuds from her trees and they were tremendously good and are all gone now, in my tummy, and Kelly's tummy, and he keeps asking if we can get more next year!
Well it is a bit of a melange, grow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODshB09FQ8w
Could you be any more obvious, Moxie?
"Please sir, I want....MORE!"
The use to have orangeries in Europe to grow citrus....maybe you should construct a "Pthuderie"?
I would, I would, but my zone is all wonky for that! It pains me so....I need to go have a little lie down.
How about underground?
http://www.forestiere-historicalcenter.com/
It works for heat--why not cold?
http://www.forestiere-historicalcenter.com/Undergroundwonders.html
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Great Scott! How remarkable! I don't know if it would work in Iowa, but one could try....
Me thinks that Cmoxon is on the hunt for another project...Pthuds in Iwoa..
Ah ha!
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/1979-03-01/Grow-Pecan-Trees-in-the-North.aspx
And a whole list of cultivars for the north up to Michigan and CANADA!
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Carya+illinoinensis
As usual Catscan, you have outdone yourself! Great pethud sleuthing! Now....I must find where I can order some of those cultivars....
Darn lost my post.
I think it would take a long time for the trees to get big enough to produce the number of nuts that
Miss C would need.
I have a large grocery bag full of cracked but not shelled pethud. I really need to get busy with them.
If Moxon REALLY wants Pthuds, I'll bet she would shell them herself - shipping would cost more but a lot less work for you.
True but these are not as good as the ones I sent here. Not a good year for Pthuds
Not good here either - normally a big Pthud area. It was too dry all summer. They dropped early, unripe.
These have a good number that have bad spots. I went through them to get rid of the loose shell pieces and as many bad pieces as possible, really need to get to work with them.
CATSY!!! Two of my silkie serama chicks just hatched within an hour of each other. I was surprised as I just wasn't to sure it was really going to work, and I had never really seen the roo and hen mate. I'm very pleased and I have four more left in the other incubator that is due in three days. One is blond and the other is black. The pappa is black and copper and the mom is black so it will be interesting to see the end results. I only have one serama and three baby gamehens left of the serama hatch. I already miss having serama babies. The next hatch I am keeping several for myself...LOL. It's late but I just had to post this. I only tried this because of you. So I owe you...Thanks darling for the idea. Hay
Catsy these two silkie seramas are so cute and funny looking. They look like two little puff balls that came straight from having their hair permed. So curly, especially on the back part of the head. So wavy. Have a good evening. Howie.
:( i'm sad i've been missing this thread. I agree with Miss J i'm not whining but ... I want babies too! These are very pretty chickens.
Here are some pic's of my new silkie seramas.
Another pic:
Last Pic: Take that CATSY...LOL
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Exceptionally cute!
Ah, Dear, Dear Haystack....so cute that you are copying me...and those are seriously adorable chicks...but really your work has just begun:0)
What cute pictures. I love the babies. You make it look so easy to hatch out these specialty chickens. What a great business if you're able to sell them all for a good price. I wonder how the babies feel when they're hatched out with no mother around.
They are incredibly social, Loon. As long as you have others they can socialize with, there is no harm, no foul. I took them away from the regular seramas for pics but the normally have five or six others to interact with. Rememeber all foul compete and even compete with parents once they are grown up so don't make the mistake of humanizing them. Love em, take good care, and provide all that is needed with the extras of course...LOL. What more could they want?
Catsy your the best, sparing with you is so much fun cause you such a good sport and wonderful lady. Not to enlarge your head but, the info you share is superb...There I said it. Now please push the deflate button on the right.............(deflate)...Hay
The vast majority of chicks start life motherless as they are produced by huge hatcheries. They seem to do well. It would be interesting to hear from those of you who have both types of chicks. Do you see a difference?
Thats an excellent point Porkpal, I have several that have been raised by their moms. The time and nurturing the mom puts into them is incredible, for the first couple months. Once they go their own way, and the mom goes back to production you would never ever guess who was raised without mom and who wasn't. At that point they compete for everything and there all the same. Hay.
I do think that ZZ and I found that the chicks raised by their mums were more independent and less interested in forming relationships with humans.
But our incubator hatches were fairly small and the chicks had a lot of human interaction, being raised in the house (yes!)...it might be different in larger hatches or other environments. They do bond strongly with their hatch mates...I don't think the pullets ever form as close a bond with other chickens later in life. A lone hen separated from her peer group seems to remain a bit of a loner when she moves into a new group.
The roos--well once the hormones hit, they seem very interested in forming new "relationships" with any pullet they see.