Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[CoopDeDoo]

Dolly - SLW

Daisy - GSL

The girls are two weeks today

 

[NotableNancy]

Definitely black australorp. For the wry neck... Vitamin E cures it.

Here are my girls...

Our BR - Marble. She is our only layer so far. The first picture is at 19 weeks (a week before she started laying). The next is 2 days ago. She would not pose for me again! But you can kind of see that her comb grew enough to get a little flop to it. She is 21 weeks now.


Our BA - Night Sky (we just call her Sky). First at 19 weeks and then 2 days ago. She is still not laying but should be any day now (unless that was her egg today, no one was home to see).




And now our Meyers girls...

The polish trio - from front to back - Chipmunk, Cloudy, and Boomerang. Cloudy is sold but still hanging at our house for a few more weeks. 7 weeks old

All your girls are so cute.. love the Polish! I'm going to have to do the pics the way you did at 19 wks and then laying. There really is a difference. Maybe I'll do this weekend at 18 weeks then 20 and 22 to be able to compare. Your EE is so pretty!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you! I have a cuckoo on my 9/30 order and I've been thinking about adding a Welsummer to my order and they have some available for 9/30 so I may have to add one. And I'm sooo jealous about the golden lakenvelder!

I've had people ask me why I got my Cuckoo Marans because she is kinda boring looking compared to my other girls but I like her a lot. Lots of personality and hopefully dark brown eggs.

I lose track of time too when I am out with the chickens or researching chickens or reading BYC!

Yeah, with my 2nd batch instead of running the chick feed thru the food processor I just added water and they all ate very well. I did this for the 1st weeks until they were all doing well with the size of the dry feed.

I started back with giving mine wet food because of Big Mama and Oreo. Big Mama had better luck sticking her beak in a deep bowl of mush since she was so uncoordinated at first. Now she seems to be able to eat everything again and is gaining wait. The other healthier ones love it too and they all share. Well not always but eventually they all get some.

Until yesterday I was giving them a bowl in the morning and a bowl in the afternoon. You may need two bowls for the amount of chickens you have and if yours peck at each other like mine do. The wet food is good for a treat sometimes too so they don't end up eating too many of the more fattening treats. Just their feed with water, but like you said for some reason they love it. I now just give them a bowl of the wet feed at night, so they'll have full crops before bed.

With the weather the way it is it seems to last a full 24 hours, but after that it will get moldy. Too hot and humid this time of year. I save plastic take out containers and just keep a stock of them for the chickens. I take the empty bowl and put the new bowl. Just rinse and reuse.

I like the idea of giving it to them at night to fill them up. Ooh, maybe warmed up in the winter would be nice too.

I live in Washington and Meyers shipped them express mail - they were here in less than 24 hours! I think yours will be fine

Holy cow that's fast... did you pay extra for the express mail or did they do it because you are so far away?

 

[CoopDeDoo]

All your girls are so cute.. love the Polish! I'm going to have to do the pics the way you did at 19 wks and then laying. There really is a difference. Maybe I'll do this weekend at 18 weeks then 20 and 22 to be able to compare. Your EE is so pretty!

I've had people ask me why I got my Cuckoo Marans because she is kinda boring looking compared to my other girls but I like her a lot. Lots of personality and hopefully dark brown eggs.

I like the idea of giving it to them at night to fill them up. Ooh, maybe warmed up in the winter would be nice too.

Holy cow that's fast... did you pay extra for the express mail or did they do it because you are so far away?

Meyes did the express mail - I didn't get an option when I checked out. Most likely due to the small order and my shipping zone. I had a $48 credit with them and that covered the shipping so I only had to pay for the chicks

I know I have "played" with ordering from them and other hatcheries in the past and because of where I live the shipping was very expensive.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

They did Express Mail for my order as well. I think because my order was so small. (10 chicks) My chicks arrived within 24 hours. Meyer Hatchery is only 4 and a half hours away from me though.

 

[CoopDeDoo]

They did Express Mail for my order as well. I think because my order was so small. (10 chicks) My chicks arrived within 24 hours. Meyer Hatchery is only 4 and a half hours away from me though.

I was very surprised. I tracked the order and it went to the Cleveland post office a 4:34pm on Wednesday and was at my door at 1:50pm Thursday. I live about 2 hours North of Seattle and it got to Seattle at 12:30ish am Thursday so it took longer to get from Seattle to me then from Cleveland to Seattle

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

Dinah & Doris - New Hampshires ( maybe) It is hard to see in the photo but their wings, tails and shoulders have red and brown coming in.

For some reason it is only letting me load one image per post so there are a few more posts coming!

Not New Hampshires, they would look like your Rhode Island Red only a little lighter colored. Maybe they are Golden Buffs?

 

[MsChickenMomma]

I was very surprised. I tracked the order and it went to the Cleveland post office a 4:34pm on Wednesday and was at my door at 1:50pm Thursday. I live about 2 hours North of Seattle and it got to Seattle at 12:30ish am Thursday so it took longer to get from Seattle to me then from Cleveland to Seattle

That's funny! My chicks would have arrived sooner but the PO messed up and sent them 2 hours out of the way. They were supposed to arrive at the post office by 6:30-7:00am and they didn't get there until 11:00am.

 

[CoopDeDoo]

Not New Hampshires, they would look like your Rhode Island Red only a little lighter colored. Maybe they are Golden Buffs?

Ooooh this is even more fun then! Those two look exactly alike, so whatever they are - they are the same. I initially thought Golden Buff's/GSL and they may be that but they are getting dark brown feathering along with the red barring. They are a very pale yellow/cream color - not the gold color of the other GSL.

Edit to add: And if they are GSL - I will really consider re-homing them. With what we are going through currently with our 2 1/2 year old Gold Comets I don't think I could take another round of all the worry and stress that come with their health issues after a couple of years

 

[kbh82310]

I don't think they are boring at all Nancy. Yours was the first one I saw and I thought she was very cute and I was gonna get a BR but when I realized the cuckoo produced the darker brown eggs I was sold. I'm trying to go for a colorful egg basket. Feel free to add pics of your beautiful lady's! ESP the cuckoo

 

[trsturself]

We're in CO and every shipment has arrived after 9am on Wed.