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    Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

    Our first egg FINALLY. Our girls are about 21 weeks. This egg is tiny but with a great shell and we are feeling grateful. Not sure who the supplier was either!! It was just outside the nest box too so tonight we will add some wooden eggs. So happy, and on my husband's birthday too!
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    Male guineas?

    Hi all, After having a wonderful time with our little flock of chickens and now acquiring more land we are thinking our next adventure will be guineas :) I know that with chickens the roo to hen ratio is important, and some Roos can be very aggressive. Is this true of guineas? I've read how...
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    Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

    Came home from work today to a very horrified husband- apparently our young roo had been breeding our young hens all afternoon!! He says they were not all the most compliant of partners :P let's hope all this sexual maturity means that we will get a few eggs before the light and weather really...
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    Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

    Well, I sent my husband out to crawl around and search for an egg, and he didn't have any luck, but there's a lot of brush so maybe we missed it. Would stink if we missed the first egg, but if it was indeed an egg, then there should be more to come! Here's a photo of the girls hiding out in...
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    Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

    So the girls were out free ranging in th shrubs and I'm pretty positive I heard a very dramatic egg song! They are 17 weeks. Worth it to climb around in th shrubs and see if I can find our first (or not!) egg?!
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    Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

    In case anyone was wondering... She's doing better :) much less skulking and back to having a pretty normal appetite. We've been doing a lot of free ranging which I think has helped everyone's spirits a bit!
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    Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

    Better in some ways and worse in others, it's hard to tell. She is just moving slow with each step and is kind of in a skulking position (how my husband describes it, like with her neck close to her body), but she moves and hops up the ramp and in and out of coop. Doing well with drinking...
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    Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

    Nancy Regan one of my BRs is out of sorts :/ her comb is pale and she's moving slow. A bit less interested in eating but did gobble some yogurt for me this evening and drank some water. Hoping whatever she's got goin on resolves quickly :/
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    Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

    Yay for the pullet votes! It stinks because we don't have any restrictions as far as having roosters... but we're raising them as pets and I'm still a bit of a control freak and like to get what I expect! Hahahaha JD is a Swedish Flower Hen... Roo :P . We wanted to buy a rooster that had a...
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    Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

    Thank you! We've got 4 acres and the remaining 40 is for sale (not our land, we'd love to buy at least 20 of it) so it's like living on a ton of gorgeous, rolling land. We moved from the city about 6 months ago, so life is pretty spectacular. The shed is old but the right coop part is all new...
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    The EE braggers thread!!!

    Thanks everyone :) It does seem like she's a bit unusual (especially if she is a pullet!) and I'm very excited to see how she continues to mature. I'm relieved that there are some votes for pullet :D Because this is an EE braggers thread, my other EE was feeling left out. Here's Abigail...
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    Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

    Greetings from Virginia :) We started on this chicken journey with 7 chicks in early June from Meyer! All survived and are thriving, just about 15 weeks now. We have 2 RIR (Mary Todd Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt), 3 BR (one was a meal maker - Nancy Regan, Jackie Kennedy, and Martha...
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    The EE braggers thread!!!

    Wow- thanks! I googled red pyle and it does seem like she could be a rendition of that. Here are a few more pics. I posted her on a local facebook chicken group and everyone started shouting ROO calling out her comb and saddle feathers?? I looked her over hard this morning and although the...
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    The EE braggers thread!!!

    "She" will be 16 weeks on October 3rd... So she's about 14 weeks. I just never thought there would be a question as to her sex given how plain she's been. Yikes! We are in a position to have Roos but just BOUGHT one as we wanted one with an even keeled personality. Come on, Julia!
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    The EE braggers thread!!!

    Took some more photos... no chance she is a roo... right?! Her color looks red in this photo but I swear its more chocolate-y... and came first on her chest... ahh!
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