Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[dragonlord483]

do they feather this much at 1 week old. She my ssh

 

[trsturself]

do they feather this much at 1 week old. She my ssh

That looks normal depending on the breed/sex. Some feather in really quick and others take forever (cochins for example). Here is our BR when she was a week and a half old.

 

[NotableNancy]

do they feather this much at 1 week old. She my ssh

My EE's feathered really fast like that. They were 3 days old when they arrived and they had lots of feathers starting.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Here are my Meyer babies at 11 weeks old!

Hika Ma the Easter-egger bantam:

Huka the Silver Lakenvelder:

Ihi the Golden Campine:

Marama the Egyptian Fayoumi:

Po baby the black Cochin bantam (from Meyer's Black Frizzle Cochin bantams):

Rangi the Ancona:

Roha the Exchequer Leghorn:

Tiwhiri the Light Brown Leghorn:

 

[NanaLynn]

I also never considered the Golden Lakenvelder I think because the pic on Meyer is so strange looking. But I just looked at pics of them and gosh, they are pretty. Lynn- you're getting one right?? Can't wait to see them!! ONLY 3-4 more days!!!!!!!!!!

Yup, I am hopefully getting one, I ordered it anyway.

They hatch tomorrow! Time flies, I can't believe that I am doing this again!

I should get them on Wednesday, if all goes like the last two times.

 

[NanaLynn]

Ihi the Golden Campine:




Tiwhiri the Light Brown Leghorn:

I hope all turns out well with my shipment and I end up with one of each of these too. All of your chicks are such pretty young hens and roosters.

Have you mixed them in with your older flock yet? How do the bantams do?

 

[kbh82310]

Good luck to everyone who gets babies shipped out tomorrow! Cant wait to see pics. My chicks and ducks ship a week from tomorrow, I'm super excited so I can only imagine how excited you guys are!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I hope all turns out well with my shipment and I end up with one of each of these too. All of your chicks are such pretty young hens and roosters.

Have you mixed them in with your older flock yet? How do the bantams do?

I've actually just started actively integrating them into the flock, but they've been flying over their fence into the big girl flock and haven't had any issues. The big girls seem to ignore them most of the time, except a few that just don't like newcomers. Po baby got a lesson from one of my Meyer partridge Plymouth Rocks today, but other than that, everything's going smoothly. I'm more paranoid that these girls are going to fly up into a tree and disappear for the night or something.


Speaking of integration, though, here's a bad cell phone picture of Roha the Exchequer Leghorn, next to my Meyer blue splash Marans, Frou-Frou:

Frou'f didn't even seem to care that she was there. They just kind of snuggled up together, so I left them be. So Roha and Rangi are on the big girl perch for the night while the others went to their coop cage to sleep.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

I still haven't integrated my Meyer girls in with my big boys and girls yet. I have two HUGE Rhode Island Red boys though, and when my little girls stand next to them, the boys are almost 3 times their size. I worry about those two hurting them. :/ They aren't exactly the nicest to new girls.

Sunni is doing great today. She is pretty much back to her normal self. She can eat scrambled eggs, bread, cracked corn, and moistened crumbles really well on her own, and she is getting better at eating dry crumbles. She still has a very hard time drinking on her own though. She doesn't seem to have very much movement to her tongue anymore, so she has to learn how to eat and drink an entirely different way than she's used to. (Wet Fowl-Pox usually causes permanent damage to a chickens tongue, from what I've read.)

Pipdzipdnreadytogo: They are so beautiful!

 

[NotableNancy]

Good luck to everyone who gets babies shipped out tomorrow! Cant wait to see pics. My chicks and ducks ship a week from tomorrow, I'm super excited so I can only imagine how excited you guys are!

I forget how many and what your final order is. That will be here in no time at all!

Yup, I am hopefully getting one, I ordered it anyway.

They hatch tomorrow! Time flies, I can't believe that I am doing this again!

I should get them on Wednesday, if all goes like the last two times.

Can you believe it's here already!! They're probably already hatched cause they need time to let them dry, sex them, box them up etc all my Monday morning!!!
You're an ole' pro at this now... it will be a breeze. Can't wait to see the little fuzzy ones

Speaking of integration, though, here's a bad cell phone picture of Roha the Exchequer Leghorn, next to my Meyer blue splash Marans, Frou-Frou:



Frou'f didn't even seem to care that she was there.

They just kind of snuggled up together, so I left them be. So Roha and Rangi are on the big girl perch for the night while the others went to their coop cage to sleep.

So adorable!!!