Hatcheries .... am I missing something?

[Meyer Hatchery]

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http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Meyer-Hatchery/122432517190?ref=ts

Sign into your Facebook account and click the link here. Then, look under the hatchery logo in the top left corner on the page. Click on "Add to My Page's Favorites" OR click the "Like" button at the top-middle of our page and then your a fan!!! We will have a big announcement on there by the end of the week/early next week so it's a good time to join!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

I found you on Facebook & clicked the "like" button so hopefully that did the trick, thank you! (the link you have posted above is not working for me)

 

[harleyjo]

To Meyer hatchery... thank-you for responding to me on this. One of my goals is to build a good egg production flock. I would appreciate any input on this. I want brown egg layers that can tolerate my Iowa weather. My plan was this. I wanted a RIR rooster, just one I think. Then if I get RIR, Barred Rocks, and Delawares. I have a good start for pure RIR's, BSL's with the Barred Rock pullet and RSL's with the Delaware x RIRroo. Then I plan to have some Black Australorps, and Speckled Sussex because they are good egg layers and I might throw in some Ameraucana for the egg colors. I also wanted to try some Welsummer's. I suppose I could consider the New Hampshire Red for my roo and pullets rather than the RIR's if they would be better but it appears to me that the RIR is a really good egg producer.

Please offer any input here. I am still learning and I just want some variety in my flock but good egg production.

Another one of my concerns is getting my chicks here to IA ok. As you are well aware I have at least a half dozen hatcheriers here but some of them don't have the breeds I want. My group I have started now I drove 30 minutes to pick up and they were picked up from Hoover that same day. Hoover just doesn't have the breeds I want though.

 

[PurpleChicken]

I'm glad to see Meyer has a presence here on BYC. I've ordered a few hundred birds from them in the last few years and have always been happy.

Whatever you do don't get on their email list. They hit you with last minute deals that ship immediately. I leave my credit cards home on Tuesdays to protect myself.

 

[Meyer Hatchery]

harleyjo - That sounds like a great plan. Every single one of the breds you mentioned are fantastic layers! When it comes down to it Red Stars, Golden Comets, Red Sex-Links, Cinnimon Queens, etc. are all bred from a White something with a Red something. Good to see that you realize buying our Sex-Links and breeding them won't give you the same thing! So many people don't fully understand that. Any chicken breeds listed in our catalog do well for us, in Ohio, and if you know Ohio weather...well you know we can have extreme heat and extreme cold. I like to advise people based on our experience with our stock in a real life situation - not based on how well they SHOULD do in certain climates. So, it's safe to say that all of them lay well and adapt well to our ever changing climate! And no worries about your peeps getting to you safely, we take every precausion to make sure your babies get to you happy and healthy! We ship to IA on a weekly basis. You might feel better knowing that we successfully ship there all the time! In fact, orders that are shipped further away often get there faster than orders going closer to Ohio, like PA. That's because they'll catch a plane rather than hop on a truck to get to you.

PurpleChicken - You know they are AWESOME deals!

 

[harleyjo]

I imagine Ohio weather is very similar to IA weather. I have studied the breeds a lot and do understand that the sex links won't be anything but sex links for that first generation. That is why I had to sit down and figure some of this out.

 

[matthewschickens]

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Murray McMurray let me do what I wanted