I'm excited for you, too, thick chick! New babies are always worth celebrating. Our Ameraucanas from Meyer are 15 weeks old today. As you can see, the blue one has crossbeak, but we still love her!
Chicken math strikes again! I forgot to include the 4 Meyer pullets we gave as gifts. Out of 30 pullets ordered, we got one cockerel...96.7% sexing accuracy. Hope my math is correct this time...haha!
Those are some beautiful chicks, exner60! I always end up changing my orders with Meyer Hatchery multiple times and they're always nice about it. They are great people! Glad your babies arrived safely.
One other point worth mentioning is that I have ordered a total of 26 pullets from Meyer Hatchery, and it wasn't until my third order that I finally got ONE "oops" cockerel. Thus far, I've been HIGHLY impressed with their sexing accuracy, which in my case has been about 96.15%. Add wonderful...
I really like Meyer as well. We have consistently received healthy, beautiful babies from them. The vast majority have also had wonderful personalities. I also appreciate the fact that they carry some very rare breeds that most other hatcheries don't. Our Cream Legbar, Black Copper Marans, Blue...
Over the last 8 months, I have ordered from Meyer 4 times and Murray McMurray once. Thankfully, ALL of my birds from both hatcheries arrived happy and healthy and are still going strong. I received excellent customer service from both hatcheries, but if I HAD to choose between the two, I would...