Vega Farm

The Serama (also known as Ayam Serama or Malaysian Serama) is a relatively new breed of bantam. Developed in Malaysia. The complete ancestory of this breed is not fully known but much of its development was by Wee Yean Een from Malaysia starting in the early 1970s when he combines silkie bantams with Ayam Kapans and later with Japanies bantams. His goal was to produce a very small, tame large breasted breed with an upright appearance, short back and vertical wing carriage. By 1988 he had birds with these traits weighing less than 500 grams. As time progressed, the Ayam Serama became the most popular household pet, outnumbering dogs and cats in Malaysia. Refinement of temperament, physical structure and over all physical beauty continues to be an ongoing activity and table top showing is a very common practice to the Malaysians and also gaining popularity in other countries. In 2001, KJ Theodore and Jerry Schexnayder separately imported the first Serama bantams to the United States. J

 

What makes us different? These are our breeding cages we have built from past experience practices of breeding our quail. Stress has been linked to cannibalism, lower fertility and overall lower health of the bird. The design of these cages main feature are the panels and the height of the cages. After noticing patterns of pacing behavior, we noted the quail in an altered state of being pressured. This could lead to anxiety within quails natural instinctive behavior to hide or feel anxious to do so. This pacing behavior was eliminated by placing panels on 3/4 of the walls, reducing visibility of other quail and other environmental stressors. After the adjusted environment, the quail seemed to feel secure in their artificial habitats (ex: decreasing anxiety by being placed under brush, trees, tall grasses). In the wild environment, quail learn how to deal with stress, within our artificial environment, quail will learn how to deal with different stress.

The greatest part of history within incubation is not only found in Ancient Egypt and her roots, it's those millenniums kept secret. There was Aristotle who pondered artificial incubation from stories he has heard, later wrote within his book IV. It wasn't until a French scientist continued to be foolish for knowledge, spared from death and hungry for knowledge, he is the one who changed history for mankind, knowing there was more to his discoveries. There is more to the mud incubators of Ancient Egypt than you may know.

Here are some of our Poultry Breed Photographs of October.  As a poultry breeder, I enjoy my poultry on each sunny day mother nature gives me.

Here are some great photographs of the Utah Fancy Poultry Show Association meet (OCT 2013). I meet new faces, yet all have the same purpose and that is  to enjoy their hobby and show some poultry.