Seawind Seramas

19/05/2023

Check out Honoria on page 3! Honoria is my 10 year old pet quality Gold Laced Cochin with DAM (delayed amelanization) or the chicken equivalent of vitiligo. She only lost her plumage color for one molt but never regained her vision.

Sigrid Van Dort writes a ton of great articles on chicken colors and genetics! I highly recommend her books and articles if you’re interested in genetics, especially if you’re doing any breeding. She has a whole Serama specific book!

09/12/2022

As part of my ornithological illustration class, I put together this illustration of the basic pattern gene that governs chicken plumage coloration. It is now available on Redbubble for art prints and a few other types of items if you're interested.

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26/07/2022

Apparently sometimes we enter some alternate dimension where Midori and Amandine are bestest buds. Most of the time Aman seems to see Midori as an annoying younger brother, but last night he was accepting and soliciting preening from Midori. It’s nice to see them getting along.

15/07/2022

Fitz being his handsome cocky self. Fitzwilliam is probably one of my best birds type-wise and he certainly knows he’s gorgeous. I included two less fabulous pictures last to show the difference a bad photo can make, but honestly it’s hard to catch him not posing.

03/07/2022

Reminder that American type seramas can go in out of pose, and can be posed to look really good. So it’s a good idea to request a video before buying a bird online. The opposite is true as well, if someone starting out with the breed asks for an assessment of a bird don’t judge it poorly, based on a single bad photo. A great bird can have a bad day, and a mediocre bird can be artfully posed. Chiara in pose, and Chiara out of pose. Probably should have a bigger chest, but otherwise a decent bird when fired up (angry with the hen next door). If you just saw the second photo, you might not realize that.

29/04/2022

Amandine insisted on being part of this afternoon nap, and attempted flying into my loft bed. He was unsuccessful so I took pity on him and retrieved him.

28/03/2022

Spring has returned (yay!), and with it I'm started to get a lot more requests for birds. I'd like to reiterate that I am currently attending college, and won't be actively breeding for the time being. I hope to return to breeding in future years, but for now I will not have adults or chicks available (but I might occasionally be able to provide eggs if my ladies are co-operating). I have been using this page to post about my flock (even though I'm not actively breeding, my continuing bird experiences with raptors, and my pets (such as my house chicken, Amandine, who I bred in 2018), but I'm going to try and keep the non-chicken stuff mostly on instagram and reserve this page for flock updates when I start breeding again. If you're in the local area, I highly reccomend joining the Northwest Seramas group to look for other great local breeders! I'm sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for understanding.

05/01/2022

An Amandine ornament painted in Downtown Poulsbo. After and before the kiln and the source photo. Some of the highlights showed up a bit whiter than I expected, but I still really like it so I did a few more...

03/01/2022

My bachelor flock: Fitzwillian, Tulio, and Howell.

26/12/2021

Christmas board games with Bertram! He’s not entirely sure what’s going on (frankly neither were we) but he enjoyed waddling around and causing trouble.

25/12/2021

The Christmas bunny is coming to eat your presents. -Jeeves

25/12/2021

Merry Christmas from the flock! Christmas breakfast was eggs with vitamins and cornbread with sunflower seeds.

09/12/2021

Aman and his new best friend, the space heater. Not proud of this but we finally figured out we didn’t have the heat turned on in the house.

08/12/2021

It’s Bertram’s 2nd birthday today, sort of... He was a psuedo-rescue from a sketchy craigslist ad. They knew his birthday and said I could ask follow up questions but then never responded when I asked for an exact birthday. I knew he had turned 1 earlier that month (last December) so we made one up. When I got him he was a bipolar little demon who seemed to bite at random (and HARD!). While he’s still occasionally a demon, I’ve gotten better at reading him and he’s gotten more consistent and trusting (and he hasn’t drawn any blood from me in months! My roommate is a bit more fun to nibble on). I was also told he didn’t like toys... and while he still turns his beak up at somethings I’m quite happy with the progress he’s made destroying things. So we got a few more toys for his birthday and early Christmas. I’m kind of swamped today, but hopefully we’ll have time to make birdy bread tomorrow!

01/12/2021

The angelic face is a lie. Bertram, my Cinnamon Greencheecked Conure. He’s actually quite lovely witg me, with others he’s a bit unpredictable l.

28/11/2021

One of my new redbubble works, more are in my story! Go check them out on various products at https://www.redbubble.com/people/KitEllsworth/shop. Current sale code: CYBER5 🌈 🌈

12/06/2021

I’m back in Washington for the summer. It’s always nice to be home, and to see my birds. Here are Tulio and Crocasmia enjoying the fresh air and sunshine. NOTE: They are both frizzles but are not normally housed together and no eggs are be hatched. So no danger of frazzles. They are both Amandine’s full siblings as well so lot’s of good reasons not to breed!