Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[Kalalyn21]

I have one that looks exactly like that. I ordered a Brown egg layer assotment and a meal maker. I think it is Golden Buff but I am not certain because I have two others that folks on the "what breed is this thread" said are Golden Buffs and they are the biggest and most feathered out of the group. It is the slowest feathering one of my entire little group. She (hopefully) is 3 weeks old today and barely has a tail

It will be interesting to see how quickly yours feathers out. This what my other two look like currently. And KowTippin knows what she ordered - specfically as opposed to assortment. Can the Meyers Meal maker be any breed?

I believe if you order layers it can be any breed of layers and if you order meat birds it will be any meat breed.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Gosh I don't know... did you get any help yet?  Maybe a dropper of olive oil?  Just some droppers of water/vitamins to get fluids into her?  How old is Sunni? How scary.  Keep us posted

Sunni is one of my girls from Meyer. She is 10 and a half weeks old. We think she had something lodged just inside of her throat. We gave her some vegetable oil, and some nutri-drench. She had a lot of mucus build-up and couldn't swallow hardly any of the stuff we were giving her.

About 20 minutes after we gave her the fluids, we started massaging her throat and we opened up her beak to look inside. While we were doing that she let out a scream (nothing like I have ever heard before) and then pulled away from us. We think that she screamed because whatever was stuck went down and it probably hurt.

Now she is outside again and she was trying to pick at some cracked corn and she also tried to preen her wing feathers. But any time she tries to twist her head she stops and then slowly puts it back into the normal position. Her poor little throat must hurt.

She's not quite out of the woods yet, but she's far better than she was. We are pretty sure whatever it was went down, but she is showing signs that her throat really hurts.

I'll keep you all posted on how she is doing.

 

[hopefulpeeps]

Sunni is one of my girls from Meyer. She is 10 and a half weeks old. We think she had something lodged just inside of her throat. We gave her some vegetable oil, and some nutri-drench. She had a lot of mucus build-up and couldn't swallow hardly any of the stuff we were giving her.

About 20 minutes after we gave her the fluids, we started massaging her throat and we opened up her beak to look inside. While we were doing that she let out a scream (nothing like I have ever heard before) and then pulled away from us. We think that she screamed because whatever was stuck went down and it probably hurt.

Now she is outside again and she was trying to pick at some cracked corn and she also tried to preen her wing feathers. But any time she tries to twist her head she stops and then slowly puts it back into the normal position. Her poor little throat must hurt.

She's not quite out of the woods yet, but she's far better than she was. We are pretty sure whatever it was went down, but she is showing signs that her throat really hurts.

I'll keep you all posted on how she is doing.

Oh yay, I'm glad to hear this!!!! Hopefully the soreness will go away quickly!



Kalalyn21, could mystery egg layer #2 be a speckled Sussex??? And also aren't EE's supposed to have the olive legs?

 

[Kalalyn21]

Oh yay, I'm glad to hear this!!!! Hopefully the soreness will go away quickly!



Kalalyn21, could mystery egg layer #2 be a speckled Sussex??? And also aren't EE's supposed to have the olive legs?

I don't know if they are or not.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Their legs sometimes start out orangeish and turn slate or green as they age. I agree, mystery chick 2 is a speckled Sussex if it's from the rare egg layers. Your meal maker is a red sexlink and the others look like EEs to me. I'm honestly not sure on mystery chick 1. I'm looking through their rare breeds and the only things remotely similar are the Exchequer Leghorns and maybe the Buttercups. It could be a clean faced EE, though.

 

[Kalalyn21]

Their legs sometimes start out orangeish and turn slate or green as they age. I agree, mystery chick 2 is a speckled Sussex if it's from the rare egg layers. Your meal maker is a red sexlink and the others look like EEs to me. I'm honestly not sure on mystery chick 1. I'm looking through their rare breeds and the only things remotely similar are the Exchequer Leghorns and maybe the Buttercups. It could be a clean faced EE, though.

I thought a buttercup myself. It says when you order the rare egg layer assortment they guarantee 5 different breeds,I ordered 4 so I figured I would get 4 different breeds.

 

[NanaLynn]

Sunni is one of my girls from Meyer. She is 10 and a half weeks old. We think she had something lodged just inside of her throat. We gave her some vegetable oil, and some nutri-drench. She had a lot of mucus build-up and couldn't swallow hardly any of the stuff we were giving her.

About 20 minutes after we gave her the fluids, we started massaging her throat and we opened up her beak to look inside. While we were doing that she let out a scream (nothing like I have ever heard before) and then pulled away from us. We think that she screamed because whatever was stuck went down and it probably hurt.

Now she is outside again and she was trying to pick at some cracked corn and she also tried to preen her wing feathers. But any time she tries to twist her head she stops and then slowly puts it back into the normal position. Her poor little throat must hurt.

She's not quite out of the woods yet, but she's far better than she was. We are pretty sure whatever it was went down, but she is showing signs that her throat really hurts.

I'll keep you all posted on how she is doing.

How's Sunni today?

 

[MsChickenMomma]

How's Sunni today?

She's doing okay. She didn't get near enough food yesterday, and she woke up this morning with zero energy. We gave her some nutri-drench about a tablespoon of watered down feed. That helped give her a little energy.

She has been keeping her head bent down, and if we try to straighten it at all she clucks like it's painful and then puts her head back down. We think whatever was stuck in her throat did quite a bit of damage to her throat, because she still has a lot of mucus build-up, and she can't bend her head to eat or drink on her own.

Other than that she seems okay. Better now that she has a bit of food in her system. Does anybody know how much food she should be eating in one day? I would hate to over feed her, or even under feed her.

 

[NanaLynn]

She's doing okay. She didn't get near enough food yesterday, and she woke up this morning with zero energy. We gave her some nutri-drench about a tablespoon of watered down feed. That helped give her a little energy.

She has been keeping her head bent down, and if we try to straighten it at all she clucks like it's painful and then puts her head back down. We think whatever was stuck in her throat did quite a bit of damage to her throat, because she still has a lot of mucus build-up, and she can't bend her head to eat or drink on her own.

Other than that she seems okay. Better now that she has a bit of food in her system. Does anybody know how much food she should be eating in one day? I would hate to over feed her, or even under feed her.

I'm not sure how much food, but I know it will really help to give her water with electrolytes. I know that water and the extra vitamins will help chickens that are sick, just learned this the past few weeks with mine. I'm still giving mine electrolytes since we have had such bad rainy and then hot & humid weather.
I gave mine a little canned cat food as well to encourage them to eat. Does she eat on her own?

 

[KowTippin]

Thanks LynnEBC!! My 8 year old son picked the names except for Yellow which my 2 year old named. My son had to sit with them and figure out what they would look like as adults & check out their personalities before deciding on a name! We tend to name animals after foods like a pig - Bacon. My son left to visit his dad for several weeks so I'm excited for him to come home and see how much they have grown since he last saw them!!