Tammie, Are your silkied seramas very tiny?
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM in Michigan
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:39 PM, "cspots@netzero.net [CHICKENS-101]" <CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
So my hatching silkied Serama chicken egg project went bust – at least I decided to take a detour and incubate some Coturnix quail eggs which hatched successfully. Melyssa picked out a quail chick to be our special pet quail. A buyer came by to pick up 11 of the baby quails leaving Melyssa's pick "Peep" and the smallest quail yet to be named. Here they are pictured at just short of 2 weeks old. I enjoyed the adventure of hatching quails so I decided to give it another go and ordered another batch of Coturnix eggs from the same breeder as the Golden Speckled Italian chicks. This time I ordered the tuxedo color which is a chocolate brown with splotches of white.
I've been flooded with requests for button quails for the past two years getting requests for them weekly. I decided to also order some Button quail chicks to help those people that are looking to find these lovely small quail. So we'll have lots of quail eggs in the incubator!
On the chicken front the Seramas are now laying every other day regularly but I don't think Bugsy is doing his roosterly duties as the eggs have been infertile. I found that he is not feeling well as well as starting to molt so fertility could be down for him. We'll get him all fixed up and feeling fine and he'll get a new set of feathers and be feeling fine soon!
My last batch of Serama eggs from a breeder arrived. She also sent Japanese, Cochin and straight feathered Serama (as opposed to silkied) eggs. Of the last batch she sent only one Japanese egg is developing so I have one lone egg and 12 Serama/Coch/Japanese group in the incubator currently. This is the last batch of Serama eggs I plan on ordering as the project has been a disaster and been costly. Hopefully my own trio of silked Seramas will get it together and lay some fertile eggs soon.
Tammie
C Spots Farm, Franklin, MA
Like chickens and quail? Visit my blog at http://loveschickens.wordpress.com !
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