PET SERAMA

As far as record keeping goes I will have to start from scratch for the newest generations. For the others I need to complete records while I can recall the info. Thank goodness there's only 15 or so birds.

 

Strange occurrence. Last night I received an e-mail from a girl/woman asking if I had a dozen PIGEON eggs to sell. With two e-mails she explained they had incubators and want some pigeons for their yard. Obviously, she had no clue what was involved with raising squabs so I spent some time giving her the basics. I'm wondering where she got my name and e-mail. Few people know I have pigeons. I have asked but, so far, there has been no further mail from her. Odd, I always research each new breed/specie before buying. Odd too, in that I thought everyone was familiar with pigeons.

 

Such an odd thing. The exact words were, "I just want too have some for my little farm."
I am also paranoid in lieu of what has been happening lately. I hadn't advertised pigeons and I do not give out my e address; especially in ads. As I've said before, we've had dogs stolen and killed-birds have disappeared too and it seemed this stuff happened after an ad came out with our address. I've stopped putting any kind of personal information (phone number, address, and e address) on ads because of my paranoia.
The girl did reply that she e-mailed because she saw a post of mine on BYC. She did not say, but it is to be hoped that she has given up on the idea of incubating pigeon eggs. I rather hope she doesn't get pigeons at all; at least not until doing some research and learning about pigeons.

 

Kimmi was taking pictures this morning so I asked her to take one of the fuchien tea bonsai. I've had the tree 14 years and it was pretty good size when Kimmi bought it for me. It gas been neglected, needing a trim and repotting/new soil.

 

Sassy and Sadie; mother and daughter.
Sadie almost lost her life this morning by getting under my feet when I was stepping down from a step. Thankfully, I had my hand on a railing when Sadie squealed in terror.

 

The bonsai is far from beautiful due to neglect, but thanks anyway.

While feeding yesterday I checked the broody hens as I usually do and found this tiny yellow chick under my Yokohama hen. The chick is a serama; the first to hatch in over a month-yeah. But four others were DIS. It will be interesting to see if this yellow chick grows white feathers; should that happen the chick would have to be Snowflake's first baby. My serama have never produced white-in all the generations there has never been a white offspring. In a week the tail and flight feathers will have grown enough to tell the color. My flock has produced beige where the chicks are yellowish, but not as yellow as this one.

The hen in the picture did not hatch the chick. When her eggs DIS I brought her in to the house to share quarters with Pablo in order to break her broodiness. When I came in the door, on the way to our inside brooder, the chick peeped and the hen gave an answering cluck. Out of curiosity, I took the chick near the hen's tub; when the chick peeped again the hen clucked even louder. When I held out the chick on my palm it peeped and ran when he hen clucked.. The chick went under the hen and that was that. The brooder was turned off as it won't be needed. The little family are doing well today.

This is the same hen that raised the four first ducklings for the first week. The picture shows that her beak and toe nails are in bad need of clipping (which we did right after taking the picture). This is a common problem with broody hens that are not out scratching and pecking in the dirt. Her last manicure was right after caring for the ducklings-4 weeks ago.