Buliguard and his sister Celeste are more examples of frizzled Serama. Buliguard lived the the ripe old age of 6. Celeste is a picky hen and never excepted a rooster. She insisted on living next door to her brother until his last year and then moved in with him and his hen. She helped hatch his last batch of chicks and helped raise them. Celeste has moved to the Retirement Coop and is mentoring the younger hens that are taking a break from the breeding program.

When our Serama hens go broody we move them indoors to the broodie room and nursery. Some hens are great broodies and highly successful at hatching out chicks but are not successful at raising chicks. Other hens are great at raising chicks but failures as broodies. The strongest chicks come from the rare hens that can do both.

As well as letting  our hens hatch their own chicks we hatch with incubators. Pictured here are some fresh hatched cochins. We do small batch hatches so we can control the amount of chicks we have at any given time. 

Pictured here is one of the small batches of chicks less than a week old at this point. As they get older we move them to larger brood pens so they have more room. As they get older we select which birds will move into the breeding programs, which will be sold, and which will move into the yard patrol or eating egg production.