Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[NotableNancy]

EE's can come with fluffy beards and/or muffs which I find quite cute

they come in assorted colors, so it's a surprise as to what you will get...

This is Beardie (she's actually from Mt Healthy hatchery, not Meyer) I called her Beardie bc even as a chick she had an impressive beard n muffs, and the name stuck!

Beardie is pretty!!

Thanks everyone. I don't mind hatchery, I just want them for the cute factor. Lol I'm thinking definately a polish, and possibly a salmon favorella (or however that's spelled), and maybe even a "Cochin" I think is the ones I saw that r "very likely" to sit on eggs and look really fluffy. Do EE's have funny features also, other than egg color?

You never know what you'll get color/feature wise with an EE, that's why they're so much fun... mine were all the typical chipmunk coloring as chicks but all 4 are completely different:
Izzy

Mrs. Puff

BeeBee

Cleo

I'm so excited, I placed my first Meyer hatchery order. Delivery for the week of May 12th . This is the first time I have ordered chicks from anywhere, I have always hatched my own, or gotten them from local breeders.

I ordered
3 assorted Cochins,
2 Easter Eggers,
2 Salmon Faverolles,
1 Buff Chanteclers,
1 Cuckoo Maran,
1 Partridge Cochin,
1 Silver Laced Cochin,
1 Walsummer,
1 Buff Orpington,
And 1Olive Egger

I can't wait to get these little girls.... time is going to pass so slowly waiting for May to get here.....

Great assortment! When did you place your order to get such great breeds?

Hey you all! I just ordered some babies from Meyers, May can't come soon enough, I'm so excited! 8D

So, I'm a Brahma-crazy person. Though they don't seem to be what I'm looking for, Meyers' stock doesn't seem... that bad. So I'll give them a try. I got a Delaware from my feed store last year, so I ordered one of those too. Crazy little things!

All the others are breeds I've never tried before, so I'm excited! I always wanted to have a Salmon Faverolle, not sure about the Dark Cornish but figured it was worth a shot (same situation as with the Brahma, it simply seems like breeders just don't exist), I really want a Cochin so I chose a White Cochin, and I thought I'd give a New Hampshire Red as shot too. I might regret it later but my last choice was a black Sumatra.

I don't suppose anyone here has ordered Buff Brahmas or Dark Cornish and might tell me a couple things... Though I love how both birds are meant to look, I really like the breeds for their size and width. Ideal Poultry disappointed me so I thought it might be worth it to try something else. That's why I ordered a Faverolle too.

I ordered 2 Buff Brahmas last year. 1 ended up being a cockerel with a cross beak I had to get rid of and the other is below. She's very calm, towards the middle of the pecking order but sort of a loner.
Stella:

Here are some of my eggs from my girls. The 4th from left at the top and the bottom far right are from my marans. They are the darkest of all my eggs. One of the two Cuckoo Marans I have lays an egg a little darker then the other and and one of them has a lot of spots on her eggs. The photo seems to lighten up the eggs a little in this picture.

The darker eggs on the bottom row are the maran eggs here.

I was wondering if anyone has some pictures of Welsummer eggs? Are they usually darker then the Marans?
The Brahmas are a pretty breed, I want some too.

I love our Salmon Faverolle, Sally from Meyers, she is the sweetest chicken. She likes to hop up on us too. She is very vocal though since she is so sociable with people.

She also adds another egg color to my basket. Her egg is a light cream color. She lays the smallest egg of all my hens still, even though she is the one of the biggest pullets. I imagine it will get bigger soon though, since she just started.


They have chicks and ducklings at the one we go to in Denver NC already. These are pics from my trip yesterday. I resisted!! They are so cute and those ducklings! My husband was there to pull me away...

They're all so pretty!

GORGEOUS EGGS!!!!!! Sally is so cute; it looks like she has a bib on! Is her egg in either of the pics you posted?
I think I will have to wait on getting one until next year. Just can't fit all I want right away. But it's always good to have a list of more I want. But it sure is looonnnnng.
Those ducks are absolutely adorable

 

[NotableNancy]

My sweet little girls have turned into egg eaters. I put the golf balls out and now look...
She keeps turning them and spreading her fluff over them. LOL!

Egg eaters?? Eeeek? What are you going to do?

 

[christine9]

My sweet little girls have turned into egg eaters. I put the golf balls out and now look... She keeps turning them and spreading her fluff over them. LOL!

Egg eaters?? Eeeek? What are you going to do?

I put golf balls in each nest box. I heard this trick helps. I did was able to collect a couple eggs today. Hopefully they don't figure it out.

 

[PancakeShiners]

sorry, the quote feature isn't working for me right now lD

@christine9:

I love your Brahma! Such a pretty girl, much better than the ones I got at Ideal! x3

And I know, no show quality from a hatchery. xD I just tend to like wide, fluffy, big chickens and the majority of birds I got from Ideal didn't have that. Brahmas are my favorite breed, I want to breed them for show someday. I will be honest though, I've always wanted to raise a full size hen. xD

There's a difference between show quality, hatchery quality and just a really bad example of the breed. Ideal's average seems to be slim, long necked, spotted Brahmas with hardly any feathered feet, I got a lot of those.

I had a broody hen that was a victim of a bunch of egg-eating teenagers last year. It was awful because the eggs, a lot of them were Brahma/Silkie crosses that I was trying for, and they were halfway through development too... Hope you can have better luck than me and clear that up.

@LynnEBC:

That's the most colorful Faverolle I've ever seen! xD She's so pretty! I'm hearing good things, as I have in the past about Meyers, no regrets here. There's a reason I chose this hatchery. :]

Most interesting to me is your description of Sally's personality, because that's exactly why I chose the breed. I don't keep chickens for eggs or meat, they're like my little buddies, eggs are just a nice added feature XP

@NotableNancy:

That's an interesting Brahma! xD She looks like a cross between a Light and a Buff. That's cool though! The idea of getting oddballs is exciting, since these guys are really just my pets and comfort animals anyways. They'd be one of a kind and that makes them special!

 

[barnyardmommy]

NotableNancy I placed my order about a month and a half ago. Even then some of the breeds I wanted were already sold out.

 

[christine9]

NotableNancy I placed my order about a month and a half ago.  Even then some of the breeds I wanted were already sold out. 

If you keep checking, you'll see that the availability changes from week to week. You can always call and add to your order.

 

[barnyardmommy]

I am afraid that I will get myself in a heap of trouble if I keep checking their website. I have already thought about adding a couple more to my order. I wonder if I can hide them from the hubby...

 

[NotableNancy]

I am afraid that I will get myself in a heap of trouble if I keep checking their website.  I have already thought about adding a couple more to my order.  I wonder if I can hide them from the hubby...

We all wonder that

 

[trsturself]

A few more are easy to hide. They are hard to count.

 

[christine9]

I am afraid that I will get myself in a heap of trouble if I keep checking their website.  I have already thought about adding a couple more to my order.  I wonder if I can hide them from the hubby...

We all wonder that

LOL!!
Lately I've been wondering where I can hide an incubator. I must be looking for trouble.