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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Aster: Laying the Biggest Whitest Eggs Yet

Aster is a Golden Campine and according to Henderson’s Breed Chart that means that:

She’s early feathering - TRUE
She’s late maturing - TRUE
She lays white eggs - TRUE
She lays Medium sized eggs - FALSE

I’m not sure if our other chickens just haven’t found their groove yet but Aster is by far laying the largest eggs we have [...]

Breeding Serama

This is Vicki (or Vicky not sure of spelling) and a friend Eric. I didn’t manage a picture of Luann who actually gave Eric and I the Serama for us to get started. Luann is a breeder of Serama down in Greer SC. I got in contact with her and she got me excited about Serama [...]

Meet Valentino

This is Valentino my new Dun Serama Rooster. Dun is the name of the coloration he has. Dun is more of washing out any other color. So you have duller, more muted colors which can be very cool for the right look. 
I’m going to be breeding this guy and if his tail feathers grow back [...]

A Sucker for Serama

So this weekend I got Seramas. (If you don’t know, Serama are said to be the worlds smallest breed of chicken.) All of them were aquired for specific breeding projects (Mille Fluer and Dun) except this fella who I just had to have when I saw him. I met someone on a the BYC board who [...]