Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[trsturself]

all the beautiful egg pics!! I think I'm over the "cute chick" phase and now am anxious for them to grow up and lay eggs lol

I too thought about giving my turkey carcass to my girls but I LOVEEE making homemade broth with it too so in the freezer it went!
I had a question for yall...
I wanted to move my Coop into a fenced off area about 10-15ft from where it is now. That little bit of space shouldn't make a difference to my girls will it? I have it now right behind the house but would really love to make use of my squared off old garden area.
We have so much area in front of our house and the girls don't even go there to explore at all

so I was hoping the move would have them check out that area

I wanted to make broth out of our turkey but was too tired to get it prepped, so the flock got it. They pretty much picked it clean. I love homemade broth/stock. I make it out of chicken all the time. I think I'm down to one jar too. I need to cook some whole chickens soon!

The girls might freak out over the move but they'll adjust quickly. Do what works best for you!

 

[christine9]

The girls might freak out over the move but they'll adjust quickly. Do what works best for you!

I completely agree.

 

[christine9]

Someone posted this to another thread. Had to share.

 

[konachicks]

Dust bath madness! They were like all dark brown by the time they finished lol

 

[konachicks]

Moimoi (our old cat) keeping a watchful eye on the babes

New places to explore

 

[FritaFrittata]

I did it!!!! I placed an order with Meyer for my spring chicks! I am SO excited!

We currently have two buff orpington girls - Frita and Nugget - they are 27 weeks old and Frita just started to lay on Saturday.

I originally thought we should start small and got our two girls from a science class hatch project at my husband's job in the spring - I should have realized I was going to go chicken crazy.

Looking forward to my new babies the first week of April - I ordered 2 black Australorps, 2 easter eggers, 2 silver laced wyandottes, and a meal maker!

I am also very excited to join all of you - I've been reading your thread since I first started researching hatcheries in August, and you all feel a bit like "family" to me. Nice to meet you.

-Melissa

 

[trsturself]

I did it!!!! I placed an order with Meyer for my spring chicks! I am SO excited!

We currently have two buff orpington girls - Frita and Nugget - they are 27 weeks old and Frita just started to lay on Saturday.

I originally thought we should start small and got our two girls from a science class hatch project at my husband's job in the spring - I should have realized I was going to go chicken crazy.

Looking forward to my new babies the first week of April - I ordered 2 black Australorps, 2 easter eggers, 2 silver laced wyandottes, and a meal maker!

I am also very excited to join all of you - I've been reading your thread since I first started researching hatcheries in August, and you all feel a bit like "family" to me. Nice to meet you.

-Melissa

Welcome to the crazy world of chickens. You ordered some great breeds.

 

[COChix]

I did it!!!! I placed an order with Meyer for my spring chicks! I am SO excited!  

We currently have two buff orpington girls - Frita and Nugget - they are 27 weeks old and Frita just started to lay on Saturday. 

I originally thought we should start small and got our two girls from a science class hatch project at my husband's job in the spring - I should have realized I was going to go chicken crazy.  

Looking forward to my new babies the first week of April - I ordered 2 black Australorps, 2 easter eggers, 2 silver laced wyandottes, and a meal maker!  

I am also very excited to join all of you - I've been reading your thread since I first started researching hatcheries in August, and you all feel a bit like "family" to me. Nice to meet you.  

-Melissa 

Welcome to the world of chickens, funny how it grabs ya!

 

[NanaLynn]

Love, love, love the tin roof of your kitchen. I always wanted a kitchen with those tiles on the roof. Very nice, looks great. Also good for you on trying to move towards scratch cooking. It is not so easy and is time consuming as it takes some planning. Been making stock from bird carcasses both Turkey and chicken for years, you won't be disappointed.

Thank you. It is not the real tiles though, it is painted wallpaper which is much more affordable. I'm glad that you thought that it was the real thing though. I've heard so many great things about bone broth. Whenever I cook a turkey or chicken again or have any other meat bones, I am going to do it. I did make a broth with chicken bones already but it is in the freezer, so I have not tried it yet.

I know!!! That's where my feed store buys from and I could plant a little seed in the 'chicken guy's' head that they would be a nice breed to get but if I get any I don't want them till the end of summer and it would only be 3 or 4. But I really should wait another year. I have 20 right now and would like to go down to 16. So of the 16 I'd have left they would only be 2 different ages by next summer... one year olds and only 16 month olds so really it's hard to justify getting new babies next summer. I may have to wait another year.

Decisions, decisions...

you'll probably talk yourself into ordering more, if you're anything like me anyway.

I LOVE the kitchen! Great job. I want your cabinets!
My DH checks for eggs when we had eggs! lol
I found my Ivermectic I had bought so me, DD, and her friend dosed every bird. I really hope that helps whatever is going on.

Last night around 9:00 one of the dogs started barking and the cat laying on my lap actually growled and jumped down. That was unusual, usually he cares less about the dogs. So DH and I got up to investigate. Standing on the patio we didn't see anything. I was just shutting the door coming back inside and one of the roosters crowed! He wouldn't stop crowing. That really worried us. I flipped to the camera while DH got a gun. It was our silky rooster crowing but the coop was secure. Of course we went out to investigate anyway! Never found anything, but pretty sure something was around. Our theory is a raccoon or fox was out back sniffing around and hit the electric wire. It must've made a yelp and took off. All the animals heard the yelp but it was long gone by the time we got out there. Proud of my rooster for sounding the alarm in the middle of the night!

Thank you. I love my kitchen now too.
Sounds like you have a real keeper with that rooster. He did a great job!

all the beautiful egg pics!! I think I'm over the "cute chick" phase and now am anxious for them to grow up and lay eggs lol

I too thought about giving my turkey carcass to my girls but I LOVEEE making homemade broth with it too so in the freezer it went!
I had a question for yall...
I wanted to move my Coop into a fenced off area about 10-15ft from where it is now. That little bit of space shouldn't make a difference to my girls will it? I have it now right behind the house but would really love to make use of my squared off old garden area.
We have so much area in front of our house and the girls don't even go there to explore at all

so I was hoping the move would have them check out that area

It does seem to take forever from chicks to eggs.
I agree that they'll be fine. I moved mine at night from coop to coop and I only had one of the 22 really cause a lot of problems. She was squawking so loudly I thought she'd wake the neighbors. So I held her upside down like I have read to do to calm her down. That didn't work either. So I just walked a lot faster. Your's are young though too and should be fine. Especially if they are used to you picking them up. My noisy one was always scared of us.

I did it!!!! I placed an order with Meyer for my spring chicks! I am SO excited!

We currently have two buff orpington girls - Frita and Nugget - they are 27 weeks old and Frita just started to lay on Saturday.

I originally thought we should start small and got our two girls from a science class hatch project at my husband's job in the spring - I should have realized I was going to go chicken crazy.

Looking forward to my new babies the first week of April - I ordered 2 black Australorps, 2 easter eggers, 2 silver laced wyandottes, and a meal maker!

I am also very excited to join all of you - I've been reading your thread since I first started researching hatcheries in August, and you all feel a bit like "family" to me. Nice to meet you.

-Melissa

Nice job! Congrats! Those are great breeds too. I've had all of them and like them all.

I'm glad that you feel at home here. Welcome to the family!

 

[COChix]

Here is a collage I did of our EE's, all of which are from Meyer.

I decided I am going to do a collage of each breed in one page, like I did for the EE. A snap shot of that breed in our flock. So there will be one for the Delaware's, Barred Rocks, Welsummer, etc. I always feel like I don't do a good job of showing each girl from all the breeds. It is hard when you have 25 birds to get good pictures of each girl, some are shy and some are camera hogs. That way when someone says what does your flock look like I can show them the five Delaware's, etc.

Crazy Colorado weather, we were 71 on Saturday and sunny, yesterday we started the day at 55 and then dropped to 20 and stayed there most the day.

@Lynn - well you fooled me with the faux tin roof, looks nice.