You have a nice variety of hens. I'm jealous of those beautiful colored eggs!Everyone together.
I got my chicks today! The girls are doing great! Couldn't take to many pics but here are a few (sorry bad pics from my phone but all I have right now)
This is one of the olive eggers.
Sounds so detailed. I'd have a problem with finding new homes for extras, if I started now. Plus I am too new to all this chicken stuff. I guess I need to search local people who want or have chickens. I want to also search local places that have hatching eggs as well. I may try Meyers shipped too, but am kind of unsure if I should, but I won't hatch for at least a couple years, unless I can find someone to take the extras off my hands now or unless my husband and I finally get over the fear and process a few for dinner.
Look forward to the pictures of the girls and your new projects! Always looking for new ideas myself. I wish it would stop raining so I can finish the coop and run. They need a ladder for their roosts, a ladder for their outside porch in the run and something at both the human door and chicken door to stop their litter from falling out. Plus roosts in the run. I think I will always be doing something, seems like these projects never end.
Adorable!!!I got my chicks today! The girls are doing great! Couldn't take to many pics but here are a few (sorry bad pics from my phone but all I have right now)
This is one of the olive eggers.
Your chickens and eggs are beautiful. You really picked the right breeds to have a variety of hens and eggs. I hope to one day have a Blue Ameraucana and white EE. So jealous!! Not sure if I would ever get silkies, but seeing them on BYC so much makes me like them a little more each day.I realized that I don't think I've ever posted pics of my Meyer Hatchery chickens on here…despite posting on this thread often! I'm such a slacker! Here are my females, all from Meyer, hatched July 2013. These pics are a bit old, they've filled out quite a bit since these were taken.
The two pics are of my Blue Ameraucana. She's my prettiest girl, in my opinion.
My eggs, which I've shared before. Every single female lays a uniquely colored egg, even the silkies, so I can always tell them apart.
Post office tracking says chickies should arrive this afternoon!!!
Going to run to the store and get paper towels and the new Frozen movie (to entertain my daughters), return library books and then stay home and wait for the chickies!
I have to work tonight.. so I won't be posting pics till tomorrow, but I will try to update.
Jeremy- your blue Americauna makes me regret not ordering one, but I couldn't bring myself to pay $20 for a chick.... but it is SO pretty!
Did you process them yourself or take them some where?Here's a few pictures of the Broilers I ordered from them last fall.They arrived in perfect health, no DOAs, and after all was said and done, I only lost a couple out of the whole batch of 52. My second order from Meyer will be arriving tomorrow, so I'll share pics of them when they get here.This time I got 4 Barred Rocks, 2 Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, 2 Colombian Wyandottes, 1 Black Laced Silver Polish, 1 Blue Crested Polish and 25 of the "Fry Pan Special" (these are just leftover roosters from various heavy weight breeds).
Sounds so detailed. I'd have a problem with finding new homes for extras, if I started now. Plus I am too new to all this chicken stuff. I guess I need to search local people who want or have chickens. I want to also search local places that have hatching eggs as well. I may try Meyers shipped too, but am kind of unsure if I should, but I won't hatch for at least a couple years, unless I can find someone to take the extras off my hands now or unless my husband and I finally get over the fear and process a few for dinner.
Look forward to the pictures of the girls and your new projects! Always looking for new ideas myself. I wish it would stop raining so I can finish the coop and run. They need a ladder for their roosts, a ladder for their outside porch in the run and something at both the human door and chicken door to stop their litter from falling out. Plus roosts in the run. I think I will always be doing something, seems like these projects never end.
How big will your coops and runs end up being once you're done?
Adorable!!!
Your chickens and eggs are beautiful. You really picked the right breeds to have a variety of hens and eggs. I hope to one day have a Blue Ameraucana and white EE. So jealous!! Not sure if I would ever get silkies, but seeing them on BYC so much makes me like them a little more each day.
Did you process them yourself or take them some where?
That is a nice variety you are getting, much more colorful then the boilers. I'd be interested to see what you end up with for the fry pan special. That would be way to many roosters for us since we do not have any now nor do we want any.
I look forward to any pictures that you share.
They're Here!
I ordered
2 Olive eggers
2 rare marans
1 white crested blue polish
1 asst polish
1 light brahma
1 partridge cochin
7 assorted rare
1 meal maker
help me identify:
light brahma
partridge cochin
white crested blue polish: they sent me 2
golden laced polish? I have 2 of these
golden campiness?
the other half will be in the next post..
