Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[autumnhearth]

I completely agree with hyzenthlay's breed ids. Looks like both your EEs have green legs, one might have less of beard/muff when she grows up. Our EE from Meyer is clean faced.

 

[autumnhearth]

19 weeks pics from yesterday


Snow the White Rock in my husband's old wagon


Cornelia the Welsummer


Pema the Brahma


Love how her foot feathers stick out


Look at that nice breast


And fluffy bottom

Snow has been hanging out in the coop watching the big girls lay. She has stuck her head in the empty nest boxes a few times and has been cackling. Any day now!

 

[Finnie]

And fluffy bottom

Snow has been hanging out in the coop watching the big girls lay. She has stuck her head in the empty nest boxes a few times and has been cackling. Any day now!

That will be so exciting!

Oh, and love the butt shot.

 

[Finnie]

Today I let my youngest group free range with the big chickens all day! They stick pretty close to their own coop, but I have seen them explore more areas at different times. I even saw some of them going up the ramp to the main coop.

At first I had to pen up the two older turkeys, but after a couple of hours I let them free, and they were better behaved after that. The little turkey seems to know he belongs with them, and they have begun to allow him to hang out near them. Good thing, because even when I keep the chicks locked up, that poult is getting too big, and he should really stay loose full time now. (Except at night.)

 

[Briggadane]

Lovely pics everyone.
Does anyone have juvenile pics of their Meyer birds? I have been searching the net and everywhere I can find for the feather stage between chick and adult and can't find anything useful to identify some of my unknown pullets. I keep getting rare breed assortments, and then add more from the bin. Can't tell them apart as chicks in many cases.
Thanks!

 

[Finnie]

Lovely pics everyone.
Does anyone have juvenile pics of their Meyer birds? I have been searching the net and everywhere I can find for the feather stage between chick and adult and can't find anything useful to identify some of my unknown pullets. I keep getting rare breed assortments, and then add more from the bin. Can't tell them apart as chicks in many cases.
Thanks!

Here's a tip someone told me, and since I learned it, it has made searching threads on BYC a lot easier for me. Maybe it will help you to find photos of juvie birds. (Maybe you already know this.)

On the right hand side where all the ads are, there is a place called "Recent Images in This Thread", it will be just below the first ad. Click on View All, and it will take you to the gallery view of all the photos in that particular thread. Then you can scroll through all the pages of images until you find some of half grown birds. (I tried it just now, and there are several for you to look at.) Click on the photo you want, and when it opens, at the top right it will have a link to the post that has that image. If just looking at the photo doesn't give you enough info, click on the link, because the post might tell some more facts, such as whatever the poster was discussing when they posted the photo. Alternatively, if that particular poster put up several photos that might help you, look underneath the photo (once you have clicked on it in the Gallery View), and there will be a link where you can "see all photos in this thread from this user." That way, if someone posted multiple photos of their own chicks growing up over the months, you can see them all at a glance without having to scroll through every photo in the entire thread.

So in this Meyer thread, you can get a quick glimpse of what many Meyer chickens look like at various ages. For example, if you click on one of my photos, and then click on "See all of Finnie's photos", then you will see my chicks at almost weekly intervals. But I think I got lax about photos once my chicks got to the age you are interested in, sorry. That's what happens when they start to get flighty and I put them outside, so fewer photos at that stage. I think that might be why you are having trouble finding what you are looking for, because I was trying to do the same thing when I first got my chicks, and few people posted the right age I wanted to see.

I've found this method very helpful for the Easter Egger thread, too, when I want to find specific colors of Easter Eggers, for comparison. And I have found it helpful for searching in other threads that have thousands of pages of text, I can skip all the words and just scroll through the photos until I see something I want to read about, and then only read the page or two that is relevant to a specific photo. (Another example is I wanted to see interiors of people's coops, without reading thousands of pages about people's exteriors, which let's face it, is what most people post photos of.

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This Gallery View can also be helpful, if you think you have a certain breed, go to the main thread for that breed, and then search their photos to see if they match your chick.

(My apologies for not being able to explain things with fewer words!

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[Finnie]

P.S.

Oh, and if you take photos of your birds and post them here, I know Autumnhearth is good at identifying breeds by the chick colors, and other people might recognize what you have too. And if you can post them at the juvie stage, then that helps boost the number of juvie chick photos for other people to search for later.

 

[autumnhearth]

Great advice Finnie! I didn't know how to get the original post from the gallery, I think I did it once by accident but then couldn't get there again. I don't think many of my flock's juvenile pics would be very helpful, I only have had a few rare breeds. Dorkings look for the extra toes, Marans the feathered feet. Welsummers can be hard to distinguish from Brown Leghorns and Partridge Rocks so you might have to wait that out until their body type becomes apparent. I do love trying to guess, but its always more helpful when you have folks who have raised that particular breed. So post away! If you're worried about taking up too much space, create a gallery and link to it

 

[redfordchick]

Can anyone help me identify my meal maker? I ordered 4 other chicks, all females. A sultan, gold lace polish, buff lace polish, and silver lace polish. The meal maker is different for sure, clean legs but same color as the sultan and buff polish chicks.

 

[autumnhearth]

Can anyone help me identify my meal maker? I ordered 4 other chicks, all females. A sultan, gold lace polish, buff lace polish, and silver lace polish. The meal maker is different for sure, clean legs but same color as the sultan and buff polish chicks.

Nice little group you have there It's hard to identify some of the white chicks at this age but I would guess either White Leghorn or White Rock, other possibility would be Delaware. It will become more apparent as she grows, Leghorns are taller, have more upright tails, bigger/floppier combs and white earlobes, White Rocks are fuller and have red earlobes and Delawares will develop black markings on their necks and tails.