Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[daniellea2912]

Lol's sorry i misunderstood My aunt always called pullet sized "big enough to eat"  my bad

Oh I could be wrong too! Maybe pullet is that teenager stage between chick and hen?? Dunno! I'll just stick with "hopefully a girl chick" for now lol

 

[daniellea2912]

So true, always fun and nerve racking until you see they are all okay. 

Yay, Congrats to you!!!!!...and did any one tell you that you  "must be patient" 

Do you have a lot of land or a farm? That's neat, I hope that you can get what you want.

Wow, what's that, around 25? Do you already have chickens? That's great, I love all your choices!! You're an awesome aunt too to order for your niece too!

Don't tempt me, that's something fun to do though. I look at the breeds but have never placed them in the shopping cart. My family already thinks I am crazy, better not let them catch me doing that.

Now I'm curious, I'm going to check and see what bantam breeds are available.

I had what I thought was one Welsummer and one Light Brown Leghorn in my last order. (I had ordered one of each so it made sense) One was just like that and feathered in slowly, I thought maybe they sent me a bantam Welsummer by mistake. Turns out they both were light brown leghorns and both were girls. We named the tiny one Mini, now Mini is just as big as Izzie the other leghorn. So hens can start out slow feathering and small too but eventually they'll catch up. In my case anyway.

I still want a Welsummer! :/

Glad to know you had a girl start out smaller and end up normal! Guess we will see what she turns out to be

 

[autumnhearth]

I posted this in a welsummer thread but haven't gotten much back... So I'll try again here!

This is my first year having Welsummers, I got two pullet day old chicks on Monday April 21st. I am beginning to wonder about one of them bc she is feathering much slower than the rest. Here are some pics of her beside her welsummer sister
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She seems to act fine, she's very active and scratches around more than the others. Plus she is always the first to run up to me to see if I brought anything yummy. She just barely has any feathers on her wings and no tail feathers yet and is smaller than the rest (I will say the other Welsummer is the biggest of the week olds). Should I be concerned? I have heard sometimes Roos feather out slower so I am hoping it's not that...

We are in a similar situation of suspicion with a Buckeye, except we only have one of each breed (so no breed comparison), they are almost four weeks and she's shown some roo like behaviors (not scattering when the other run for cover when my husband sneezed and jumping and flapping at the girls, especially the top two and she is much noisier) sigh. Good luck, they are adorable, I wish we had gotten a Wellie but I couldn't convince my husband on a seventh chick, we may be down to five if "she" crows :/

 

[winteree]

Oh I could be wrong too! Maybe pullet is that teenager stage between chick and hen?? Dunno! I'll just stick with "hopefully a girl chick" for now lol

lol's good luck

 

[winteree]

We are in a similar situation of suspicion with a Buckeye, except we only have one of each breed (so no breed comparison), they are almost four weeks and she's shown some roo like behaviors (not scattering when the other run for cover when my husband sneezed and jumping and flapping at the girls, especially the top two and she is much noisier) sigh. Good luck, they are adorable, I wish we had gotten a Wellie but I couldn't convince my husband on a seventh chick, we may be down to five if "she" crows :/

Yeah just keep a eye on the comb normally with rooster they start showing deeper colors way before the hens do and feather out last but i personally have no experience with buckeye's. But then again you could just be looking at a pecking order process in action or just have a overly dominant hen
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[christine9]

I posted this in a welsummer thread but haven't gotten much back... So I'll try again here!

This is my first year having Welsummers, I got two pullet day old chicks on Monday April 21st. I am beginning to wonder about one of them bc she is feathering much slower than the rest. Here are some pics of her beside her welsummer sister

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She seems to act fine, she's very active and scratches around more than the others. Plus she is always the first to run up to me to see if I brought anything yummy. She just barely has any feathers on her wings and no tail feathers yet and is smaller than the rest (I will say the other Welsummer is the biggest of the week olds). Should I be concerned? I have heard sometimes Roos feather out slower so I am hoping it's not that...

I say it's still probably a girl. 90% accuracy in sexing is a good chance it's a girl. Maybe just a runt? Good luck!

 

[christine9]

Omg, I have mites. The girls haven't showed any signs of them but I saw the crawling on the side of the coop. If the trim wasn't white, I would never had seen them. I sprayed with poultry protector and put poultry dust on the ground. I don't see them on any of the girls, but sprayed their vents and under wings with poultry protector too. Hopefully this won't be a problem. Are mites seasonal pests? Seems like everybody's talking about them right now.

 

[christine9]

BTW, blue AMs are available June 23 and July 28... Keeping my eyes on them in case I have to add then to my August order

 

[jonsccm]

Can eny one help me I receved my order from meyer and i have identified most of them out of all I ordered I did not have any white chicks. But 2 were in the box. My options are blue / splash amarucana, or Easter egger. What one is this?

I know that the Easter eggers have green legs and the Amarucanas have gray. But this has pale yellow.... Both white chicks appear to have pea combs.

 

[christine9]

Can eny one help me I receved my order from meyer and i have identified most of them out of all I ordered I did not have any white chicks. But 2 were in the box. My options are blue / splash amarucana, or Easter egger. What one is this?

I know that the Easter eggers have green legs and the Amarucanas have gray. But this has pale yellow.... Both white chicks appear to have pea combs.

Doesn't look like an ameraucana or an easter egger to me. Could this one be your meal maker?