Can I ask how many chicks you've ordered, total? My experiences are over hundreds of birds going back five years. Any hatchery can have fatalities, and I've had a couple here or there. I'm talking about the performance of the birds as egg layers, only. I don't have any real differences on...
I use Meyer and MMM almost exclusively. I've actually found Meyer to win the customer service battle in the past--they've been amazingly nice.
I do think MMM has better birds. I wasn't at all happy with how my sex-links from Meyer laid this past year, and I know for sure that MMM Easter Eggers...