Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

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Here are my Meyer babies at 4 months old.

Huka the Silver Lakenvelder:

Ihi the Golden Campine:

Marama the Egyptian Fayoumi:

Rangi the awesome Ancona

Roha the Exchequer Leghorn:

I just really liked this picture of Roha

Whiri the Light Brown Leghorn:

And Po baby the black Cochin bantam from Meyer's Black Frizzle Cochin Bantams:

I didn't get a picture of the Easter-egger bantam because he's obnoxious.

 

[NanaLynn]

Just updating you all on my little flock from Meyers. They were 4 weeks old on Monday, the pictures were taken around 3 1/2 weeks old. They are growing so fast!
New Hampshire



White Crested Black Polish


Buff Laced Polish

I'm going to stop with the pictures now, I don't want to get yelled at for posting too many.

I didn't get pictures of my Light Brahma, Rhode Island Reds, or Silver Spangled Hamburg. I think I have 20 varieties not including the mixes I hatched that week and my 31 CornishX. Oh gosh, I don't need all these birds, I'm going to have to downsize.

I won't yell at you.

I love the pics!!! You do have a lot of chickens, wow!!! How big is your property?

I look forward to seeing pics of your girls as they grow, especially those polish!

Here are my Meyer babies at 4 months old.

I just really liked this picture of Roha

Whiri the Light Brown Leghorn:

Love all the pics. Roha is beautiful, all of your chickens are so pretty! You take such great pics too.

Looks like Whiri is about ready to give you an egg with that comb, it is so big.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I know! I hope she holds it until I'm at home, though! Her vent is looking wider than the other pullets, but her pelvic bones are still really close to one another, so I'm thinking it'll be another week or two.

 

[trsturself]

My daughter and I are out of town again. I just know Mona is going to lay while we're gone. My husband said he only got one egg yesterday and it was a small brown one. Can't wait to get home and see it to see if I can tell if it's a new layer!

I miss my girls! lol

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

I won't yell at you.   I love the pics!!! You do have a lot of chickens, wow!!! How big is your property?

I look forward to seeing pics of your girls as they grow, especially those polish!

My husband and I are currently living in the farmhouse on the main farm. He works for the largest beef cattle operation in SE Michigan. I help out when I can but I work off the farm in town. My big coop is a mobile setup so I just move it when I run our of grass. There's a couple hundred acres for me to choose from once crops are harvested. My 8×8 brooder coop has a 12 ft × 6 ft run for the babies once they're old enough to go outside.

 

[sonderah]

These r my 4 1/2 week old babies from Meyer. Ordered all sexed female, looking like one of the 3 is wrong, but that's ok.
This is Aphrodite, my Buff Orph

This is my other Buff Orph Artemus, the one I'm thinking is a roo.

And this is Athena, my Speckled Sussex pullet.

 

[Poohb10454]

Eleven eggs!!! Awesome! Congrats!!

Ha, ha, imagine if someone is watching that camera of yours while you're trying to put lipstick on your chickens vent?!

You're braver then me!

lol...That is too funny!! I can't imagine the reaction of the person on the other side of the computer. ahahaha

That would be hilarious!


We went to a local festival today that had a chicken race. My daughter entered with our BA, Sky, and her friend took her little polish that we've been watching. My daughter and her friend both won their first heats and then her friend beat my daughter in the second heat. It was fun. They really had the only chickens that would follow them. Everyone else's were all over the place. My daughter went after about 4 rounds of other chickens barely making it across the finish line (a couple didn't even do that), Sky ran across the finish line in 9 seconds. My daughter was very proud. The announcer and crowd couldn't believe it. I was disappointed they put the two girls against each other in the next round, otherwise they both could've won.

I have a really low quality video of my daughter in her first run. I'll see if I can upload it somewhere I can post it.


Oh yeah, we sold our little sizzle roo at our local chicken swap yesterday.
And at the festival today we bought an EE while there. We just couldn't help ourselves.
I'll post a pic of her once she has settled in a bit. I can't wait to see what color eggs she lays. She is bearded with a really nice pea comb. She is 12-13 weeks old according to the guy we bought her from.

Congrats to your daughter! That is very exciting!

Speaking of meat birds. I am SO ready for ours to go to processing!!! For those that are interested, we butchered 6 with some friends about a week ago. It was a trial run for us with none of us having done it before so we weren't the best prepared. I still didn't do the killing. I can't bring myself to take a life personally yet, but one day I might get there. I did the rest though.
Anyone who knows me is very surprised I have meat birds. But I'm like you Lynn and talked myself into it because at least they have a good life and I know what they've been through. It's easier if you see them as meat from day one. I have no attachment to these birds at all. I don't sit around and watch them and learn their personalities like I do our laying hens. I just feed, water, let out to roam, and put to bed at night. Make sure everyone is ok and that's it. It helps.

I read the books, looked at pictures, watched videos but still didn't feel prepared. Here are my tips coming from our experience. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/822993/processing-tips-from-a-newbie

Thank you for the post, very good information. I have been on the fence about it but I think I could get attached to a pet fly, im not sure if I can do it or not.

I am getting really worried!!! I am hearing stories about how chicks ordered online always die... i ordered 4 chicks and live in Mass, Do you think they will die???

They don't always die, but sometimes you may have a few deaths. Most companies will send you extra chicks in your order and/or offer you either money back or replacement chicks. Who did you order from? when are they expected to arrive?

I know for a roo you pick them up every time you see them. Maybe it will work for hens too. Just carry her around while you do stuff. It shows her you are dominant.

I would try this! I do this with my roo. If I go out with colorful pajama pants or something different he will sometimes jump at me and I just pick him up and tote him around while I am doing my chores, it works because he rarely ever gets aggressive with me. I carry him around almost always on a daily basis, at least pick him up for a min or so.

Just updating you all on my little flock from Meyers. They were 4 weeks old on Monday, the pictures were taken around 3 1/2 weeks old. They are growing so fast!
New Hampshire

Speckled Sussex

Ancona

Leghorn (pretty sure anyway)

EE

Deleware

Columbian Wyandotte

Sumatra

German Spitzhauben Appenzeller

Sultan I thought she was a Salmon Faverolle

White Crested Black Polish

Egyptian Fayoumis

Silver Laced Polish

Silver Lakenvelder

Barred Rock ( maybe a few Cuckoo Marans but I'm not holding my breath )

Buff Brahma

Buff Laced Polish

Partridge Rock

I'm going to stop with the pictures now, I don't want to get yelled at for posting too many.

I didn't get pictures of my Light Brahma, Rhode Island Reds, or Silver Spangled Hamburg. I think I have 20 varieties not including the mixes I hatched that week and my 31 CornishX. Oh gosh, I don't need all these birds, I'm going to have to downsize.

I love all of your variety. Your CW looks A LOT like one of my suppose to be light brahmas...however she looks different than my other light brahmas. Hmm. Wonder if there could have been a mix up.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I love all of your variety. Your CW looks A LOT like one of my suppose to be light brahmas...however she looks different than my other light brahmas. Hmm. Wonder if there could have been a mix up. 

Does she have feathered legs? Brahmas are feather-legged and Wyandottes are clean-legged.

 

[Poohb10454]

Does she have feathered legs? Brahmas are feather-legged and Wyandottes are clean-legged.

There is my answer they are feather legged. There are pics of them below.

Here is my first meyer shipment. The girls are 5.5 weeks now
Bertha (she's so so much bigger than any of the other chicks)

Zee our other light brahma

Tiny - black Cochin frizzle who didn't I think she's so pretty

Cindy, Lady and Sunny the three faverolle girls. All three are quite different in shade color

Peanut

There are a few girls that weren't cooperating for their photo this morning. It's so much fun watching them and their personalities.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Lucy laid an egg this morning, and Lilly's gone. While I was in the house feeding Sunni, and pair of hawks came and tried to get my girls. I saw one fly away when I went outside. I put Sunni in the coop and could only find 6 of my 23 chickens. I looked and looked and found all but one in the un-mowed grass around our property. Lilly in nowhere to be found. Im going to go out and sit in the yard with a BB gun and see if she'll come out of hiding. I know those hawks will be back.

I think we are going to just be done free ranging and just make them a covered run. Those hawks have been swarming my barn for weeks now. Their nest is in the woods behind our house, so I don't know what to do to keep my chickens safe.

I really hope Lilly is okay. I hate to assume the worst, but it's not looking like she'll come back. My other chickens were in shock, so something bad happened while I was in the house... The only trace of Lilly I found was 3 little black feathers, and a grey hawk feather next to them...