We really like our Black Sex-Link hen, she is docile and lays an egg 6 days a week. She is young but has never gone broody on us. Started laying right at 20 weeks old and has been great through the winter.
Thank you. Like I said many of the others I have talked to have not had the problems I did. Meyers was very good to work with I called this morning and they credited me all the chicks that I lost no questions asked. We would have tried to have more shipped but the breed that we wanted was not...
LOL I have them in with the 1 week old chicks ( I have 3 different brooders going at the moment) They are getting along alright but you are correct they are making a mess of things quickly. I may have to figure out something else for the ducks tomorrow. My son told me today that "we may have...
Yes I thought after I had lost the bunch yesterday we had everything under control and then this morning 2 more dead and one this afternoon our last Silver Spangled Hamburg. So sad. My son was so upset about losing his prized future fair project that we had to go to the local feed store and...
My first experience with shipped chicks has not been a good one to say the least. I have purchased dozens from the feed store over the years and only lost one. Just depends everyone else I have talked has not had the experience I have just gone through. I only ordered chicks because we wanted...
I did and they still did not make it. I had a couple with Pasty Butt and they seem to be doing ok today but I lost 3 more over night and I got up every two hours to tend to them. They are just not doing well at all. They looked great last evening and about 2 this a.m. those 3 had gone...
Received my order from Meyers today. 5 Silver Spangled Hamburgs 6 Silver Laced Polish and 10 Assorted Brown Egg Layers and 1 Meyers Meal Maker. One was dead on arrival, 1 (I thought was dead) died shortly after. I have lost 6 more throughout the day. I only have 1 Silver Spangled Hamburg left...
52 eggs in the Incubator go into lock down on Monday and my Meyer hatchery order comes in next week too.
6 Silver Laced Polish
4 Silver Spangled Hamburgs
15 Assorted Brown Egg Layers
Hopefully they all ship well.