Malaysian Serama Chicken

[Mad About Cichlids]

can chickens comfortably handle very cold weather? id like to pick up a pair of malaysian seramas, but MN is very cold in the winter. I used to raise pigeons and they did fine in the weather.

Not sure about those but pretty sure you can keep the Old English game bantams.

 

[drahcir888]

for cold weather i would suggest that you put in a5watt bulb to keep tem warm then

 

[darthbravo]

At 1st glance I thought the thread was titled Malaysian Sesame Chicken!

Its not sesame! this whole time i thought it was!

 

[arowana man]

Expensive for such a tiny chicken....

lol, those look like tyson chickon nuggets to me.

 

[Danyal]

i think this is the only time i've ever been remotely interested in keeping a chicken, those guys are awesome.

 

[Dan F]

I don't know what kind of incubators you have in Malaysia, but there are lots of options here. The most important feature is the thermostat. The more expensive ones use an electronic thermostat (MUCH better), while the cheaper/old-fashioned incubators use a bi-metal thermostat. Some have self-turning mechanisms, but that's not important if you don't mind spending a little time rolling eggs. A "wet-bulb" thermometer or a hygrometer will help maintain the proper humidity.

All that said, a Cochin hen (or any other heavy-bodied setting hen) can hatch a dozen eggs with as much success as an incubator. Plus, she does all the work.

 

[drahcir888]

i think i will let her do her own job

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Does this breed of chicken incubate it's own eggs or does it need another breed to do it? I know that some breeds of chickens will not incubate their eggs and you have to use other breeds to do it for them. I never had chickens but I had a few breeds of pigeons that I had to do that with. For example, Belgium Tumblers were very good at laying eggs and incubating them but their beaks were too short to properly feed the young. So after I found this out I had to trick normal Homing Pigeons into hatching and raising the babies for them. I also raised various gamebirds which none of them besides the Mallards actually would sit on their own eggs. So needless to say I had lots and lots of eggs in my incubators. Things might have been a little easier if I had some chickens to do all the work for me!