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Haleth — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:39:13 +0000

2010 Chick Update

Haleth — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:51:51 +0000

Five Seramas, born on New Year's Day, 2010.

Lighting, at five weeks old. Serama, born January 6, 2010.

Six and five weeks old chicks.

French Copper Blue Maran, five weeks old

Five-week-old French Copper Black Maran, born January 6, 2010

Another 2010 New Year's Serama, quite possibly a pullet.

My Show Girl

Haleth — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:17:16 +0000

Cleo, a Show Girl Silkie

Cleo was born on November 19, 2009. In this picture she’s almost a month old. I believe her coloring is buff–I wouldn’t really know, since she’s my first light brown chicken. She’s also bearded with a “bow tie”, that little fluff at the base of her neck above her “cleavage”. She really does seem to have a plunging neckline below the bow tie, and she’s not the least bit shy about it.

Pearl Picture Frame Necklace

Haleth — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:01:31 +0000

Pearl Picture Frame Necklace, originally uploaded by Jenna Leng.

25-day-old Serama Chick and More Eggs on the Way

Haleth — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:24:48 +0000

This is Honey Bee at three and a half weeks old, poking around in my herb garden. It’s hard to tell exactly how big she is here, but I’d say not very. She’s about the size of a standard-sized day-old chick.

My Serama and Porcelain d’Uccle eggs from Mary Robbins should be here by tomorrow, and Susan (AHappyChick on BYC) sent me a message yesterday letting me know that 30+ eggs are on their way. Lavender silkies, white silkies, some French Black Copper Marans, and finally, the elusive Araucanas!

I’ll probably do a split hatch in the one large incubator, but if there’s not enough room I’ll bust out the smaller one and use that exclusively for the Seramas. I think. We’ll see when they get here. I absolutely cannot wait, I swear, it’s like Christmas morning when they hatch: you think you know what you’re getting, but you’re never sure, and besides, it’s so much better to actually see them, than just know they’re in there.

More Serama Eggs Coming

Haleth — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:28:16 +0000

I have more Serama eggs in the incubator that I set on the twelfth. Out of a dozen, five had cracked. I know this is crazy, but I read that people have repaired parrot and finch eggs with tissue paper (the wrapping kind) and/or white glue, so I figured I’d give it a shot. I’ll take a few pictures later when I candle them.

I also have some more eggs that I got from someone on BYC. I’d lost an auction, but she was nice enough to e-mail afterwards to let me know she still had some eggs available and I bought two dozen for $24! She threw in some Porcelain d’Uccle eggs, too! Those should be here in the next day or two.

Silkies from AHappyChick

Haleth — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:55:26 +0000

These are the three Silkies I traded AHappyChick for for the Autumn Necklace. My neighbor Carmen named the roo Pumpkin, the pullets are Lovely (the light splash one—girl across the street named her), and America (Lee named her).

Netted Autumn Necklace

Haleth — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:57:20 +0000

I am not the greatest wireworker in the world, so wrestling with full-hard gold wire was a nightmare. Even rubber-coated, my pliers left marks all over, so most of this was done with dowels and my bare fingers. Ouch.

Cat Tower for a Cat-sized Dog

Haleth — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:01:37 +0000

Goddard took a real liking to this tower at my mom’s house. I may just get
him one for the holidays.

Posted via email from I am Jenna.

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Serama Beauty

Haleth — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:47:31 +0000

Found on Flickr.

Bantam Chicken | Ayam Serama, originally uploaded by mankamen et ella.