Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[carikermoon]

These are the eggs I'm setting today. Oh my nerves! My splash ameraucana is laying some of those pretty blue eggs stacked on top. My black ameraucana is laying the slightly greener ones. The bottom ones are those wheatens I ordered. And I threw some wellie and buff brahma eggs in for good measure. They should make some cute EEs and OEs.

What gorgeous eggs! I received my chicks on Wednesday from Meyers (via MyPetChicken) and was going for a colorful egg basket. I have one each BCM, EE bantam, CCL, and bantam white crested black polish. I was hoping that the CCL would give me a blue egg (for what I paid for it I really expect a blue egg!) but after reading some posts on here it sounds like the CCL may just lay a green egg. . But your splash ameraucana lays a beautiful blue egg... Maybe I should order a blue Ameraucana next year to get the blues? I love the look of the splash....maybe I'll get lucky with a splash.

 

[autumnhearth]

What gorgeous eggs! I received my chicks on Wednesday from Meyers (via MyPetChicken) and was going for a colorful egg basket. I have one each BCM, EE bantam, CCL, and bantam white crested black polish. I was hoping that the CCL would give me a blue egg (for what I paid for it I really expect a blue egg!) but after reading some posts on here it sounds like the CCL may just lay a green egg.

. But your splash ameraucana lays a beautiful blue egg... Maybe I should order a blue Ameraucana next year to get the blues? I love the look of the splash....maybe I'll get lucky with a splash.

carikermoon we'd love to see your chick pics! That sounds like a fun bunch- feather legged, feather crested, lightly crested and possibly bearded or muffed, you're just missing the extra toed

I would guess and mind you this is just a guess that a splash *may* lay a bluer egg than a blue ameraucana because the blue is a cross between a splash and a black, the color might not be as solidly established due to breeding one type, like a BCM should give darker eggs than a blue copper maran, though that is probably also because the splash it is crossed with has lighter eggs. I could be totally wrong (and please someone tell me if I am) but I would say go with the splash if you like their looks, there is a 25% you would get a splash or black if you ordered a blue anyway. Or order both!

10 more days until we pick up our new chicks! I was very tempted when I saw that the local nursery had a sign for started pullets from Meyer, I would really like to add one more good layer a RIR or Golden Buff. I asked the woman when they were coming in and she replied they were there now in their back coops. I remembered my husband would kill me, sighed, smiled and left (no actually I explained to her that I couldn't convince him). Here have some Dorking love from yesterday:

 

[christine9]

What gorgeous eggs! I received my chicks on Wednesday from Meyers (via MyPetChicken) and was going for a colorful egg basket. I have one each BCM, EE bantam, CCL, and bantam white crested black polish. I was hoping that the CCL would give me a blue egg (for what I paid for it I really expect a blue egg!) but after reading some posts on here it sounds like the CCL may just lay a green egg. . But your splash ameraucana lays a beautiful blue egg... Maybe I should order a blue Ameraucana next year to get the blues? I love the look of the splash....maybe I'll get lucky with a splash.

Thank you! I am very happy with the little blue eggs. I ordered two blue ameraucanas because they are really black, blue, or splash. Luckily I got two different colors and two different color eggs from them. Your CCL may still lay a blue egg.
Oh, and I didn't see pics of these new babies

 

[carikermoon]

carikermoon we'd love to see your chick pics! That sounds like a fun bunch- feather legged, feather crested, lightly crested and possibly bearded or muffed, you're just missing the extra toed I would guess and mind you this is just a guess that a splash *may* lay a bluer egg than a blue ameraucana because the blue is a cross between a splash and a black, the color might not be as solidly established due to breeding one type, like a BCM should give darker eggs than a blue copper maran, though that is probably also because the splash it is crossed with has lighter eggs. I could be totally wrong (and please someone tell me if I am) but I would say go with the splash if you like their looks, there is a 25% you would get a splash or black if you ordered a blue anyway. Or order both! 10 more days until we pick up our new chicks! I was very tempted when I saw that the local nursery had a sign for started pullets from Meyer, I would really like to add one more good layer a RIR or Golden Buff. I asked the woman when they were coming in and she replied they were there now in their back coops. I remembered my husband would kill me, sighed, smiled and left (no actually I explained to her that I couldn't convince him). Here have some Dorking love from yesterday:

Actually have the extra toes covered with two feedstore silkies from last year. Since the white one was broody, I put her in the brooder with the chicks the day they arrived and she tucked them under her wings immediately and hasn't budged since.

My pics are with my phone so not that great.

 

[carikermoon]

More baby pics. Here's the polish bantam:

And the EE bantam:

The CCL:

And the BCM (doesn't photograph well in the bathroom light):

 

[carikermoon]

After seeing and reading about the Wellies and the Dorking-loving, I'm adding those to my list for next time!

 

[autumnhearth]

Actually have the extra toes covered with two feedstore silkies from last year. Since the white one was broody, I put her in the brooder with the chicks the day they arrived and she tucked them under her wings immediately and hasn't budged since.

My pics are with my phone so not that great.

Aww! Broody momma love! One day I'd like to have a Silkie just for this purpose. And because they are adorable. Right now we are focused on eggs. So she lets you interact with chicks fine without pecking? I keep thinking our Dorking would be a good mom but definitely want to bond with the new ones. I see you've got a nice dark BCM chick. Mine had a lot of yellow as a chick but oddly enough didn't develop any copper, except a tiny bit of mossiness on her back.

Oh and I forgot in my previous post that Meyer only sells Blue Ameraucanas (but you could wind up with a splash or black). Christine, remind me is your Splash from Meyer or a breeder?

 

[carikermoon]

Aww! Broody momma love! One day I'd like to have a Silkie just for this purpose. And because they are adorable. Right now we are focused on eggs. So she lets you interact with chicks fine without pecking? I keep thinking our Dorking would be a good mom but definitely want to bond with the new ones. I see you've got a nice dark BCM chick. Mine had a lot of yellow as a chick but oddly enough didn't develop any copper, except a tiny bit of mossiness on her back.

Oh and I forgot in my previous post that Meyer only sells Blue Ameraucanas (but you could wind up with a splash or black). Christine, remind me is your Splash from Meyer or a breeder?

Angel (my white silkie) is the gentlest creature I have ever seen. Before the chicks arrived, she was broody. I would put my hand under her to move her from the garage cage to the outside run and--if my hand was cold, she would try to tuck my hand under her with her wings to warm it up! I felt so bad that she had no fertile eggs (we have no roosters). She murmurs softly to both us and the chicks and we have no issues picking up and loving on the chicks. As soon as we put the chicks back down, they race back under her.

 

[carikermoon]

I should add that with school being cancelled or cut short three days this week due to weather, the chicks are being handled constantly by the boys (and me, too!). I keep the house on the cool side (my boys complain that it's freezing) and the brooder is in the upstairs bathroom because it is the warmest room in the house. So the boys are fine with sitting in the warmest room and holding a chick. These babies are truly going to be pets when they're older!

 

[carikermoon]

I can already tell who will be the top hen when they're grown. Our only other chicken is a buff silkie, named King (we thought she was a he for the longest time) that has to stay by herself. She's my oldest son's favorite chicken, and he is distraught that she has to stay alone... so, I've been trying to introduce her to the chicks in the hopes that she would co-brood the chicks. Alas, she just pecks them and then proceeds to ignore them and gobble their food. Angel just watches (if she can see through that cotton ball on her head) and continues to cluck contentedly--I was a little disappointed that Angel didn't try to defend the chicks from her friend. Apparently that doesn't sit well with the little BCM, we're calling Mei. She charged at the buff silkie, grabbed hold of the silkie's ear and hung on. The first time, I thought it was a fluke but she's done it twice more. This morning, it was as soon as I put the buff silkie in the brooder; Mei charged out from under Angel's wing to attack! Went straight for the ear and hung on furiously!