Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[NanaLynn]

TaDa! The new egg is on the right, I now think it is the Blue Swedish ducks egg, she has been showing the most interest in the coop. The buffs just follow her up in there. It is laying next to a Pekin egg and is about the size of a large chicken egg. She is such a big duck and it seems strange that she would lay such a small egg. It may get larger as time goes on I guess as it did for some of the others.
Oh and one of the cinn. queens (Red) is starting to squat a bit already!!

Nice, those are some big eggs!

When I went out to collect eggs at 4:00 today I had a total of 7 for the day... not bad but then when I went out at 7 to kick my Cochin off the nest there were 2 eggs under her... not hers!! So she must have let others in there to lay (or rolled them in there but there's a big lip on the edge of the nest so I doubt that) so I got a total of 9 again.
AND one of them I assume was Izzy's cause it was green but the other was an oddly shaped egg and is a beautiful creamy color!! I'm guessing that it's from my last EE to lay... who else?
Would my BA lay a cream colored egg? I just looked at Meyer site and the BB shows a cream color egg as a possibility. Could it be her already. Is that really early for a BB to lay, almost 24 weeks?
BUT seriously... is that really unusual to get 4 EE's and have only 1 lay a green egg? Do I have terrible luck?
I'll take a pic tomorrow.
I may have to trade a few brown egg layers next year for a few new EE's and a Leghorn. I'm not sure if my coop can hold any more chickens without getting rid of a few. I'll know after this winter.

OH... AND then after I kicked the Cochin off the nest the chickens were surrounding the nest and acting crazy interested... then one of my RIR's comes running full speed out of the coop with what I was guessing was a soft shell/skin of an egg! Half the hens started chasing her for that and the other half were running into the coop to eat the raw egg

Pure chaos... then there's me sprinting out of the run to get the access to the other side of the nest to get the raw egg out before all the chickens turn into egg eaters! Anyway... I have no idea who laid that mess but I could have had 10 eggs today. Crazy

I'm going to try that tomorrow on my BB. She'll let me do it. My BA's on the other hand might not take to kindly to it. If I'm feeling adventurous I will go for it. But my EE won't let me near her so that's out.
Thank you for all of this. She certainly seems broody and not ill. Makes a funny noise if she's sitting on the nest and another chicken gets to close then she attacked Junior when I kicked her out and Jr. tried to get in. And all fluffed up when I kick her out but after a couple of minutes back to normal looking.
I kept kicking her out of the nest and tonight I went out after dark and she was sleeping in there so I took her out and put her on the roost. I just checked my camera (yay,another reason to get one!) and she is sleeping up there so I guess that's good.
I think when she's older it would be fun to give her some eggs and see what happens. I know 2 people near me that have roosters so maybe I could buy some eggs from them and see what happens. But for now, I think she's a bit young so we'll wait on that.
We'll see what happens the next few days. Once when I kicked her off the nest I did my 'chick chick' call and threw out some sunflower seeds and she did run over to eat some but I didn't see her eat much else today. At least tomorrow the heat is supposed to break and be a bit cooler for the weekend. It was pretty hot to sit in the coop all day!

Yup, she lays a cute light brown egg that is practically round rather than traditional egg shape.

Oh my gosh, you've been having a crazy time at the coop lately. I hope that you have more then one blue or green egg layer. I'll be waiting to see if someone has answers to all your questions too.

Sad news, we had a quick bad storm roll through when we weren't home. We have a couple inches of hail on our porch!
we went to put our girls up for the night when we got home and we found our little silkie dead by the fence

We figure the storm came on quick and confused them. Even the girls that made it in the coop were wet. I think she froze or got hit on the head with something. Can't think of any other explanation.
Only silver lining is that we found out it was a roo today. It buffered the blow a little since we would have to give him up anyway but it is still hard. I miss him already.

Other bad news, I'm pretty sure our polish splash is a roo. My friend brought the silkies hatch mate over that we know is a roo and our silkie and polish both started chest bumping and fluffing up and fighting with him.

Bad day in our chicken world.

So sorry for your loss.

I am so sorry :-( That is hearbreaking but I do understand what you mean about the fact that he is a roo softening the blow....it still doesnt make it easier though. Not a fun day at all.

We lost her last night I tried everything I could...I stayed up with her until almost 3 am. Poor baby. I really had hope yesterday because she was improving for a few hours.

Sorry too for you loss. Sometimes no matter what you do, they still just don't make it.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Ellie one of my EE's squatted for me today.

 

[Poohb10454]

WWYD~ Meyer will replace my 6 dead chicks, they can ship Oct 7th. I have 28 chicks now, which is plenty. Im really torn on if I want to replace them. Part of me wants to do it because I could exchange for a couple of the breeds i wasnt able to get but then again I don't know if i want to do chicks again anytime soon. It's heartbreaking.

 

[kbh82310]

WWYD~ Meyer will replace my 6 dead chicks, they can ship Oct 7th. I have 28 chicks now, which is plenty. Im really torn on if I want to replace them. Part of me wants to do it because I could exchange for a couple of the breeds i wasnt able to get but then again I don't know if i want to do chicks again anytime soon. It's heartbreaking. 

Get the oct shipment! But I'm also a horrible influence. What would you get? I'm sorry about your EE btw

Ellie one of my EE's squatted for me today.

Congrats, I wanna see pics when you get the egg!

 

[The Howards]

WWYD~ Meyer will replace my 6 dead chicks, they can ship Oct 7th. I have 28 chicks now, which is plenty. Im really torn on if I want to replace them. Part of me wants to do it because I could exchange for a couple of the breeds i wasnt able to get but then again I don't know if i want to do chicks again anytime soon. It's heartbreaking.

One thing you may want to consider. October is closer to fall/winter weather and you will need to consider if you have an area to keep them warm till they are completely feathered. If you ask they may roll over your credit to the next spring.
Side note....DH was asking me what I was typing about, told him the info and he was like ship them here

...funny considering I think we have enough for a while and he is willing to add more. Ahhhh I love my DH, he indulges my addiction.

 

[Poohb10454]

One thing you may want to consider. October is closer to fall/winter weather and you will need to consider if you have an area to keep them warm till they are completely feathered. If you ask they may roll over your credit to the next spring. Side note....DH was asking me what I was typing about, told him the info and he was like ship them here

...funny considering I think we have enough for a while and he is willing to add more. Ahhhh I love my DH, he indulges my addiction.

I keep them inside but I went ahead and had her refund my card. I'm done with baby chicks for a while. 2 shipments in 2 weeks and I'm done. It's an emotional roller coaster. I would have let you have them

 

[The Howards]

I keep them inside but I went ahead and had her refund my card. I'm done with baby chicks for a while. 2 shipments in 2 weeks and I'm done. It's an emotional roller coaster.

I would have let you have them

Ah but alas, you are so far away.... I understand. By next year the chick fever will hit again and you will be ready to start over. 2 batches is enough for me in one season as well.

 

[The Howards]

Well, tonight we had a round-up and moved all the young pullets into the big house. <sigh> They are not babies anymore.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Im planning on moving my Meyer girls in with my older girls on Monday. I was going to yesterday, but my adult flock still isnt used to the head rooster not being here anymore. I dont want to stress them out too much by messing up their pecking order.

 

[The Howards]

Quote: MsChickenMomma
All of them had been in the same yard all day together they just bedded down separately. I am sure there will be some missing feathers in the morning. A couple of the older hens are bullies when forced to sleep next to someone they don't want to. Have your group of girls been totally separate MsChickenMomma?