My RIR Bantam hen "Red" and her roo Zeus (serama) that I'm creating a layer bantam that's small like the serama but layers like their momma...
Their only offspring for the project as of right now. Moult made all my birds stop laying... She's 5 mths old now and half the size of her momma
Barred is sexlinked in hens. Color is passed on the Z chromosome. Males are ZZ & female are ZW they can only pass it on to male offspring so you'd get barred males and black females. Breed her son back to her to get 100% barred.
Cuckoo is what they call a slow feathering bird which causes the feathers to be blurred where as a barred is fast feathering causing the bars to be crisp and clean. Also Cuckoo colored birds have white legs where as barred have yellow legs.
I've had better development cuz the serama eggs don't fit the Turner buy did learn to put the eggs around the parameter of the incubator instead of linin them up in rows. My RIR bantam eggs hatch the best but they aren't as fragile as seramas... I've never had luck with Styrofoam incubators so...
I've had maybe 12 out of approx 8 dozen hatch, but only 2 survived... One being a pure Serama and one being a RIR bantam x serama cross... The heat has been wretched lately but serama eggs are hard to hatch and all my birds were young... Going to borrow a friend's Rcom to see if it was the...
They did really well... They werent weak at all but rather friendly compared to specific ordered chicks. It is however important to get them hydrated with either vit & elecs or sugar water with a light shot of rooster booster B-12. Both companies are awesome with the surprise boxes...
I lucked out they are red pyle oegb and i got a cockerel and 3 pullets :-D they are mostly feathered now but will have to get some pics once they stop being popcorn chicken... Accidently gave them my adult birds B-12 water and now ive come home to a popcorn popper instead of a brooder... But the...
It is hatchery Choice of what is putin your box... Meyer Hatchery in Polk, OH has a nice surprse box as well... Its called "Leann's Adopt Me Bargin" and you get a big aray of young poultry that she finds in the incubator that escaped the hatching trays or were left in the baskets that hatched...
You could even use one of the automatic chicken doors on the windows so they would open in the morning and close at night. My birds hate drafts at night so i had to make a shutter for the front...