A Turkey and Serama Bantam Love Story

A good friend of mine recently hatched 1 single turkey, 1 single serama bantam and 11 ducklings.  I hatched 1 single runner duck “Rosie May”  and 6 seramas.  So my friend thought it would be a good idea to trade ducks and seramas, the turkey would still be the only turkey, but at least the duck and serama could have a friend of their own kind. So, I paid her a visit to swap chicks, (this is how “Daisy Duck” came to be with us).  Well, now that her serama had a friend she thought she could take the turkey out of that brooder, she was oh so wrong. Let me just tell you, 2 serama chicks and a turkey chick the same age look very silly together, the size is so different!  The serama that I swapped her for the duckling “screamed” for hours after the turkey was taken out.  Her son even went and woke her up saying, “Mom do something, that chick won’t shut up!”  Not knowing what to do, she thought she’d bring the turkey back and see if that helped.  Low and behold, the “screaming” stopped!  The serama and the turkey had bonded!  Forget that the serama had another little serama to be friends with, she wanted that turkey!  Picture that bond if you can.  A very large breed of bird, and the world’s smallest breed of chicken! Got your visual?  Mine is of a tiny little serama riding around on the turkeys back!  So silly, but so very precious!