How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Adolescent Serama Chicks

I so enjoyed your post and update. Just want to say Hello to you~ Susan in Conyers, GA

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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 11:46 PM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Adolescent Serama Chicks

My four hatched chicks are eight weeks old now, and are gangly teenagers. Only one has developed a comb so far, and none of the have crowed, but I assume the one with the comb is a male. (Sigh.) I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the other three are pullets.

Judy has loaned me her camera (because my disappeared into the bowels of her room and she can't find it, wicked child). I'll take pictures and you all can tell me whether you think I have a cockerel and three pullets or not. The little alleged cockerel is mostly black with some wheaton markings. The three who are supposedly pullets and a) one entirely freckled with white and chestnut, one whose base color is pale yellow with a scattering of chestnut and black markings, and one (my favorite) who is very pale yellow with just a few chestnut, white, and black feathers. My favorite is the smallest chick; the largest is the black and white chick. My favorite has some weird feathers, especially just in front of her tail. The always look like they've been ruffled and stick out with wind blown abandon. Could she possibly be a frizzled serama? She's just cute as a button.

Names are pending. nut under consideration are Lucy and Ruby. Pearl is LAO a possibility. The black and white chick, once we are sure it's a pullet, will become the new Lily and Lily will have to be renamed. Garcia, Martha, and Abby will keep their names. I'll have the former Lily to rename, one of the two new pullets that Cathryn send me (the other will be sold with the cockerel) to name, and the three pullet chicks.

Chris has named his new sulcata tortoise Sherman (after the tank). Sherman is happily keeping his backyard mowed and hasn't tried to burrow out of the yard. Byron, Jen and Chris' basset hound, is reserving judgement about Sherman. How is unclear about how to behave around a 60-70 pound tortoise who gives him the evil eye if he comes near it. Byron has decided that discretion is the better part of valor.

Di
Central Florida Zone 9a/b

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