Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[NanaLynn]

OK, so I just spent my morning cruising through this whole thread. I still have 71 days till my birds get here, and I ordered them on 2/20, I may just go crazy from this wait!! I ordered:

Rare Marans Collection Females​

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Welsummer Female​

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Blue Copper Marans Male​

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Easter Egger Female​

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to add to our existing flock of 10 hens which include 3 more EE, 2 BR, 1 RSL, 1 BS Marans, 1 SS, 1 BO, 1 RIR. With the exception of 1 each of the BR and EE and the RIR which belong to a friend the rest where all ordered from My Pet Chicken - which I read here is apparently the same as Meyer anyway lol.

I'll try and upload some pictures of my girls a bit later, as they are all on my phone. In the mean time I just wanted to say hi, and it's been fun reading all your posts and especially looking at all the pictures!

Look forward to your pics too! You do have a long wait, at least you already have some chickens now.

 

[NanaLynn]

Picking up at least 16 chicks tomorrow from Meyer... We are under a winter storm warning, so the 1.5 hour drive may be interesting! This will be my first trip to Meyer Hatchery, super excited!!!

will definitely be posting pictures once we are home and settled in!

I hope that you had a safe drive there and back. How are the chicks? any pics yet?

 

[NanaLynn]

Mine aren't due for another 50 days.

But I'm certainly enjoying watching everyone else's chicks as they progress!

It looks like Meyer's is extremely busy, even their website keeps going offline. What chicks are you getting in 50 days?

I am getting 8 more chicks in about 38 days. I had 3 that did not survive the 1st shipment, plus 1 was missing from the order that I received on Feb 13th, so I am getting those 4 plus I added 3 more to that and another Meal Maker. Shipping is free since I had problems with the 1st order.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Let's see if I can remember them. 1 silver gray Dorking, 1 light brown Leghorn, 1 Exchequer Leghorn, 1 Ancona, 1 golden Campine, 1 Egyptian Fayoumi, 1 silver Lakenvelder, and 2 special little surprises for me.

 

[NanaLynn]

Nancy: The weather this year is crazy! I want to go out and take pictures of the chicks, but it is so darn cold and windy!! I will be glad when it officially warms up for good. I want to start planting my garden too. Spring, where are you?

Most of the chicks are fully feathered except my CW and Blue Cochin, they still do not have any head feathers. It is so neat to look out the window and it looks like I have chickens instead of chicks running out in the run. It is in the 40's and they are still happy to free range in my garden, well at least until the wind starts blowing hard. It's too cold for us, but they seem to be enjoying this weather, crazy chickens!

I plan on taking pics the next warm and not so windy day.

 

[NanaLynn]

Let's see if I can remember them.

1 silver gray Dorking, 1 light brown Leghorn, 1 Exchequer Leghorn, 1 Ancona, 1 golden Campine, 1 Egyptian Fayoumi, 1 silver Lakenvelder, and 2 special little surprises for me.

nice selection!

 

[NotableNancy]

Nancy: The weather this year is crazy! I want to go out and take pictures of the chicks, but it is so darn cold and windy!! I will be glad when it officially warms up for good. I want to start planting my garden too. Spring, where are you?

Most of the chicks are fully feathered except my CW and Blue Cochin, they still do not have any head feathers. It is so neat to look out the window and it looks like I have chickens instead of chicks running out in the run. It is in the 40's and they are still happy to free range in my garden, well at least until the wind starts blowing hard. It's too cold for us, but they seem to be enjoying this weather, crazy chickens!

I plan on taking pics the next warm and not so windy day.

i'm in PA near Phila. Snow and cold today. I can't wait to see them running around the 'run' when they are ready to go out. But we're still working on the roof. Hopefully it will all be ready in 3 weeks or so.
I love seeing people's pics of the chickens free ranging. They are always so pretty roaming around in the garden and grass. We have caught 12 raccoons so far and we have hawks galore. Not to mention the 2 fox that come to our yard at least 2 times a day- sometimes more. Yesterday my Corgi chased him/her away 3 times in a row. It just kept coming back. We seen them catch squirrels and chipmunks so they know this is a place to come for food. They're so pretty but I hate them at the same time! I'm so jealous of your garden; our deer problem is so extensive we can't have any kind of garden. We only have ground cover they won't eat, bamboo and grasses and anything poisonous to them.

I meant to ask you if you know what kind of heated dog bed you used. I was looking around on eBay at them and then I was thinking they would be 'poo-ing' on it all night so how do you clean it?


Also: for anyone with grown chickens... just wondering when they stop peeping? It's not bothering me, I think it's cute but I'm just wondering when they stop.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Let's see if I can remember them. 1 silver gray Dorking, 1 light brown Leghorn, 1 Exchequer Leghorn, 1 Ancona, 1 golden Campine, 1 Egyptian Fayoumi, 1 silver Lakenvelder, and 2 special little surprises for me.

nice selection!

Thanks. I wanted to add some white egg-layers to my flock, but couldn't decide which breed, so I'm gonna try 'em all. Hoping they aren't as flighty as I've heard they usually are.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Also: for anyone with grown chickens... just wondering when they stop peeping?  It's not bothering me, I think it's cute but I'm just wondering when they stop. 

It seems to me like it was around 3 months old when my girls started into a high-pitched cluck rather than a peep. I will look it up (I pretty much documented everything about last year's girls as they grew).


ETA: 2-1/2 months old, their voices began to change. I would still hear the occasional peep, but I would also hear raspy clucks and honks like their voices were cracking.

By 3 months old, they had fully transitioned to clucking, though it was slightly higher-pitched than the adults' clucks. I'm not sure at which point their voices changed to adult-tone.

Frou-frou, my blue splash Marans, apparently has been honking since she was 2 months old. Her honks have gotten deeper, but she has never really clucked as far as I know.

 

[astantz]

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