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<\/a>Emerald<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/speckles.jpg\")
<\/a>Speckles<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/freckles_portrait.jpg\")
<\/a>Freckles<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dandelions_portrait.jpg\")
<\/a>Dandelion<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cinnamon.jpg\")
<\/a>Cinnamon<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/apricot-1.jpg\")
<\/a>Apricot<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dandelion_and_cinnamon.jpg\")
<\/a>Dandelion and Cinnamon<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/apricot_has_pin_feathers_on_her_head.jpg\")
<\/a>Apricot has pin feathers on her head<\/p><\/div>\n
Seramas are supposed to moult a few feathers all year round and lay eggs all year round. I think they have spurts of moulting though because they all seem to be moulting at the moment and I am picking up lots of little feathers. Only Freckles is laying so our egg production is right down and I am having to buy eggs at the moment.<\/p>\n
Apricot hasn’t laid since her brief broody spell a month ago and she has the palest of the little girl’s combs. She does have a mass of pins on her head though so I think this is the reason.<\/p>\n
I don’t mind the girls taking a well earned break from laying. I just want them to stay healthy. I worry about them more since losing Rusty. Apricot is such a sweet little girl. She is so pretty and so friendly.<\/p>\n
It is two weeks since Cinnamon laid and a week since Dandelion laid so they seem to be dropping off one by one. Freckles is still laying but only about three times a week. Freckles has always been the best layer of the little girls.<\/p>\n
Last winter the only little girls we had were Freckles and Rusty as the three amigos joined the flock in February. This was before Freckles and Rusty started laying.\u00a0 Freckles started laying at the beginning of March and Rusty started laying at the beginning of April.<\/p>\n
Dandelion started laying at the end of April followed by Cinnamon at the beginning of May. Apricot started laying at the beginning of June. Silky feathered seramas mature slower and therefore start laying later.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to see if seramas do continue to lay through winter although it won’t be a true test until next year as hens do usually lay through their first winter anyway. The difference is that most hens usually have their first full moult approaching their second winter whereas seramas moult a few feathers all year round.<\/p>\n
I am still learning about seramas\u00a0 as we have only had them for just over a year. We got Caramel and Pebbles last August but sadly didn’t have them for long. Although We have only had them a year I am firmly converted to seramas and can’t imagine not having them in our flock now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I thought I would do an update of the girls current portraits. Seramas are supposed to moult a few feathers all year round and lay eggs all year round. I think they have spurts of moulting though because they all … Continue reading