Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[christine9]

@NotableNancy Sorry to hear that Henrietta is the culprit, but it is such a relief to feel certain about what is happening. I think if it was my fav hen, I'd try removing her from the flock and hope that being reintroduced to them changes her behavior. It would be hard to give away my favorite, but if she was causing that kinda issue, she might not be my favorite anymore either. I hope it works out for you. It will be a tough decision to make.

 

[MamaShell]

@NotableNancy Sorry to hear that Henrietta is the culprit, but it is such a relief to feel certain about what is happening. I think if it was my fav hen, I'd try removing her from the flock and hope that being reintroduced to them changes her behavior. It would be hard to give away my favorite, but if she was causing that kinda issue, she might not be my favorite anymore either. I hope it works out for you. It will be a tough decision to make.

Ditto!

 

[Brookshire11]

You definitely have the room for that many birds (and more). I was at our local farm store yesterday and heard peeping. They had two large stock tanks full of chicks! Cheap too! $1.99 for straight run and $2.79 for pullets. They were a mix of breeds and of course the employees are no help but I saw some barred rocks, either white rocks or white leghorns, and some chipmunk ones so maybe some EEs. DH was with me and just looked at me like you've got to be kidding me. So I kept walking.

I've been staking out our feed store the past week. Lol. They're getting some in today or tomorrow.
I'm going to sneak by after work, sans hubby.
Not that it matters, he told me I could a few weeks ago...I just think he forgot

I'm hoping they're from Meyer, (I think they have the prettiest EEs!) but I haven't asked.

I lost my favorite EE hen, Pearl, over the weekend

My first layer and friendliest girl.
@NotableNancy She was Izzy's twin, I swear...

 

[trsturself]

I've been staking out our feed store the past week. Lol. They're getting some in today or tomorrow.
I'm going to sneak by after work, sans hubby.
Not that it matters, he told me I could a few weeks ago...I just think he forgot

I'm hoping they're from Meyer, (I think they have the prettiest EEs!) but I haven't asked.

I lost my favorite EE hen, Pearl, over the weekend

My first layer and friendliest girl.
@NotableNancy She was Izzy's twin, I swear...

Oh no! Do you know what happened?

 

[trsturself]

Summer (welsummer) and Snowball (frizzle bantam cochin) have started laying.
Here is the bantam cochin egg next to a "regular" size egg. The camera really makes the colors off. It's sitting next to our EE egg which is a green/blue and it's not as dark as this pic looks.



I took this pic of all of our eggs we're getting now before the cochin laid her egg today. I was going to take another pic with the new egg but I had already traded them yesterday (for homegrown produce, yum). I'm pretty sure on the Welsummer egg but I didn't catch her in the act.

Clockwise starting at 12... Welsummer, BA, BR, SLP, EE, Cochin, PR, and in the middle D'Uccle. Snowball's egg is longer and pointier than the one in the middle. We also got a little dark one today that I don't know who laid. I think it was the LF cochin but not sure. I need to do the food dye again to see for sure who's laying what.

 

[NanaLynn]

I've been staking out our feed store the past week. Lol. They're getting some in today or tomorrow.
I'm going to sneak by after work, sans hubby.
Not that it matters, he told me I could a few weeks ago...I just think he forgot

I'm hoping they're from Meyer, (I think they have the prettiest EEs!) but I haven't asked.

I lost my favorite EE hen, Pearl, over the weekend

My first layer and friendliest girl.
@NotableNancy She was Izzy's twin, I swear...

So sorry about Pearl.

 

[NanaLynn]

Summer (welsummer) and Snowball (frizzle bantam cochin) have started laying.
Here is the bantam cochin egg next to a "regular" size egg. The camera really makes the colors off. It's sitting next to our EE egg which is a green/blue and it's not as dark as this pic looks.



I took this pic of all of our eggs we're getting now before the cochin laid her egg today. I was going to take another pic with the new egg but I had already traded them yesterday (for homegrown produce, yum). I'm pretty sure on the Welsummer egg but I didn't catch her in the act.

Clockwise starting at 12... Welsummer, BA, BR, SLP, EE, Cochin, PR, and in the middle D'Uccle. Snowball's egg is longer and pointier than the one in the middle. We also got a little dark one today that I don't know who laid. I think it was the LF cochin but not sure. I need to do the food dye again to see for sure who's laying what.

So pretty!

 

[NanaLynn]

The little 8 x 4 extension is complete. Here is the before picture:


and the after:


They now have a bath and spa area available to them whenever they need it.


We basically made a big box!

 

[christine9]

Ok, so it was way too hot to get much done outside today. But my extension project is almost there. I'm second guessing the plan to close in the back wall with plywood just to save the money on hardware cloth. But I figure I could switch it out at a later date. I guess you can't really see it in the picture.

Just have to finish building the brooder area in the back. Then take down the existing hardware cloth between the two areas and move it to the new outside walls. And maybe take some better pics lol

 

[christine9]

Oh yeah, and the fermented feed is awesome. I don't think they are eating any less pellets than before, just the same PLUS the fermented ones. But it is the only thing that Peppy will come down off his perch for and risk getting pecked for. Even with mealworms he just waits for me to give him his own. I love the stuff!