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I, too, got some Tractor Supply marans! Mine have more black on them, but they do look like Black Copper Marans to me. Went in to get chicken food for our bantams/silkies, came out with 6 new chicks. I only wanted three (we have a coop of big chickens as well), but apparently it's a state law...

Mixed! Our original flock, of six pullets, was a mix of Buff Orpingtons, RIRs, and EEs. The next year, I got 12 Ayam Cemani eggs shipped, got 6 to hatch, and kept 3 pullets. That's who we have in our "big girl coop" right now. This year, I ordered a mix of Silkies and Seramas, 11 total...

Now he's just about 18 weeks! Still tiny, I need to weigh him, he's my smallest boy, maybe my smallest bird at all. I have a Serama pullet that might be smaller than him, but I'm not sure.

Thank you! They are handsome boys, and mostly very friendly too! Sam is a total lap rooster, he gets mad if I don't let him have a nap on me at least once a day.

My little serama Sam started peep-crowing at 2 weeks old! And we got 4 other cockerels with this batch, the second one (a bantam Wyandotte) started crowing at around 7-ish weeks. They're all about 17 weeks now, and one of my silkie cockerels has only just started to yell-crow, the other two...

She's a doll, a real lap chicken! I got a batch of seramas and silkies, but the breeder gave me two of these mixes as free-bees, along with two bantam wyandottes. She doesn't sell them yet because she's working on the lines, but they're great little chickens.

Thank you! I don't really care either way, but we're building a bachelor coop and I'll have to separate them pretty soon. I don't want to have to re-integrate someone because they ended up in the wrong coop! Raine was acting rooster-y early on, but I started questioning my assumptions last...

I thought Raine here was a cockerel but now I’m second guessing myself. He’s about 15 weeks old, a Serama mix (not sure with what). I’m questioning because his comb isn’t reddening up yet, though I know it can sometimes take longer.

even if he wasn’t crowing, he was pretty clearly a roo very early on! This is him at about 2.5 weeks:

Our second cockerel from this batch started crowing around 8 weeks, and he sounded like a kazoo! One of the others just started trying to crow at 15 weeks, so far he just sounds like he’s yelling.

What's the earliest you've heard one of your little cockerels crow? I have a little Serama boy, Sam, who started at two weeks! He'd do the little gearing up to crow, then peep in a crowing cadence, like peep-peep-peep-pee-peeeee! Here is a video of him doing a baby crow when he was about 4...

That's true! I wish I didn't have to separate them at all, but we're either at 5 roos and 7 hens, or 6 of each (one of the silkies I'm not sure about yet). Nobody is being aggressive now, but I know it's a matter of time.

Thank you! I'm not planning on chicks any time soon, so I'll probably just go with all the boys in the bachelor pad. I don't really want to have to get rid of one if I couldn't integrate him with the rest of the roosters. If I end up really wanting a roo for the girls I can always get one later.

Ease of cleaning is a great feature! Coops can be hard to keep clean unless all areas of the inside are accessible.

This spring I got a straight run of Silkies, Seramas, and a couple of Bantam Wyandottes. We have 12, 7 girls and 5 boys. We are in the process of building a bachelor pad for the boys, because they are so great I need to keep them. They're so sweet, very different from other roos we've had in...

Here are mine! I have five. Hunter (bantam Wyandotte), Dino (Silkie), Sam (black Serama), Cornpop (orange Serama), and Raine (gray Serama mix). They are all 14-15 weeks old and are currently living with the small ladies but will move to a bachelor pad soon.

Here is my gorgeous 15 week old Serama roo, Handsome Sam!

Hey my fellow Mass people! I am in Central Mass. We started with 6 pandemic chickens, and have now increased our numbers to 21! We have: The Golden Girls (the original 6, plus three more: Ginger (Buff Orpington), Betty & Veronica (RIR), and Una, Fluff, and Jackie (Ayam Cemanis) The Little...

I know this post is 2 weeks old, but I do know a vet in Littleton that takes chickens, Littleton Animal Hospital. I haven't used them for any of my chickens, but have brought one of my rats there and they were very good with him.