Serama chick and his father

This young cockerel has been re-home to one of my friend house up North.  Hope he will turn out to be a great and handsome rooster.

  This is the father, my current only rooster:

Tiny Serama egg

One of my Serama hen laid a tiny egg yesterday.  It would be interesting if this egg develop and hatch, but I doubt it will.  The other two eggs are normal size egg of Serama hen.

Serama pic/clips

WOOT, I finally have some fertile serama eggs

After 20 or so eggs laid by the serama hen that are infertile, finally I have 3 eggs that are fertile.  I don't really know the reason why the roo can't do his job properly, but that's ok with me as I'm not into breeding this type of chicken.  I only keep them as pets and if they happens to have chicks, I might raise them up and give away to my friends who ever want them.
Here is a pic of fertile egg at about 8 days old in the incubation.  You can see few blood vessels are forming and tiny chick at the middle right.

6 Serama eggs are incubated by the hen

The Serama hen starts to incubate her eggs on the afternoon of May 8th.  Total of 7 eggs are laid; one got broken, so there are 6 left.  In the next few days, I'll attempt to candle those eggs to see if they are fertile or not.  I also have incubator setup to stand by just in case, but I'll let the hen does her work and let's nature take its course.  Hopefully three weeks later, I can see some beautiful chicks emerge!
Update: First attempt of candling the eggs today 05/13/2010 and first time ever doing it didn't yield any good result. I know there is only about 4 days after incubation so if there is any development in the eggs it would be hard to see. I did not see any thing inside the eggs. They looks just like those commercial chicken eggs that I can buy from supermarket.  Few days later, I candle those eggs again and they all are infertile or might be die at very early development.  I'll put the next batch of eggs into the incubator.

Serama pet: First egg!

This hen lays egg is little late compare to normal serama hen.  She must be around 7 months of age before she lays her first egg.  I do plan to hatch few of the eggs just to see how the chick doing in term of color and form, but I won't keep hatching them in large quantity unless some of my friend want to have one.
The hen weights around 400grams or 14ounces which put her in class B per American Serama Standard.  The roo weights around 525grams or 18.5ounces which put him in just above class B and should be in class C per American Serama Standard.  Again, both of these bird is low quality bird and in term of the form, they are no where near the standard form which set by American Serama Council:
Ideal male:  http://www.scnaonline.org/forms/idealmaleupdated.pdf
Ideal female: http://www.scnaonline.org/forms/IdealHenupdated.pdf

Update as of 05/08/2010: The hen laid total of 6 eggs.  One got broken, and the rest are start to incubate by the hen on the afternoon of 05/08/2010.

Few update pics of Serama pair

 

  

  

 

New serama pullet

I just got the serama pullet today so she can be the companion with my current rooster serama.  She is quite small and only approx. 3 months old.  It would take at least another 3 months for her to fully develop and ready to lay eggs.  She is little stress from the picture below but she has her form and nice broad tail.  Would be really interesting to see her development in the next few months.

Here she is:

 Introduce her to the rooster:  looks how small she is!  She might be fall into upper class A or low B.

Serama chicken as pets

This is the serama chicken, a smallest type of chicken in the world. He is approx. 14 months old. Weight is about 480gr which belongs to a class B category. Characteristic of the Serama is many but the main distinguish between Serama and other type of chicken beside the small size is the vertical wings and large chest with almost no back visible.  Because the Serama is very small and breed to be very friendly, it makes an excellent pets.  House the Serama can be small cage 24in x 12in x 12in for a single or a pair; of course, the bigger the better.  The one I have is no show quality but do pose a good characteristic of his type.  I'm in the process of finding him a mate. He is very docil and friendly. Whenever I'm at home, I let him roaming around the backyard. Due to small size, I won't let him roaming in the backyard all day unsupervised because of hawk or small raptor might catch him.