Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[mimischicksnat]

Umm, I do detect a sub-theme there at the end (TLC). No Scrubs for you....

Wasn't that "Don't go chasing waterfalls..." or something to that effect. LOL

 

[christine9]

find out if our son's Kindergarten teacher is one of the three that hatches chicks

Ooh! This good be a great way to get some new babies!

 

[trsturself]

Ok, How many BAD pictures does it to take to finally get a GOOD picture of your chickens? I must be doing it wrong! I can't keep these buggers still long enough to get decent pictures!

A million! You should see how many pictures I have of chickens on my phone. Multitudes more than anything else. And it's just because you have to take a million to get a good one.

This is the best I could do in the way of pictures today.
Sarsaparilla - cuckoo marans


Strawberry - speckled sussex


Eggplant - black ameraucana
Comb is still questionable. Not worrying too much yet.


Plum - lav orp
Pretty sure this one's a boy. Almost two weeks old and no tail yet. This comb is looking boyish to me.


Olive - light brahma
Also has no tail yet. Makes me wonder. And very slow feather growth overall.



And the older ones:
Peppy - black ameraucana
No crowing and still bottom of pecking order. Still a sweetie though. He's one week away from 5 months old.


Apricot - buff brahma


Kiwi - Delaware - laying her egg like a good girl! And Persimmon - RIR - still broody.


MIA: Pumpkin - welsummer. Won't stay still long enough for a picture.

We have an Apricot too. The only themes we have is that all EE's get named after a type of honey and any color rocks get named after rocks. The EE theme started with our first EE, Honey. She was unfortunately a casualty of the cat just a few days old. He has since lost interest in these noisy things in the house. Next was Amber (still have her), now we have Clover and Blossom.
Out of the 7 chicks we got at Big R, 2 are roosters. The SLW which I was pretty sure would be a girl due to a flat comb, has sprouted a huge red comb and wattles overnight! The EE I was worried about from the start due to ridges on the comb is also getting a much larger comb than the other EE. I'm not 100% on the EE yet, we'll have to see how the feathering comes in (splotchy color = boy, uniform color = girl).

Our animal names:

Roos -
Carter (Blue CM)
King (Silkie)
Dinner (mutt)
Elvis (CCL)
Poppy (SLW) - who we will be rehoming or eating

Hens -
Amber (EE)
Sky (BA)
Marble (BR - RIP)
Mona (PR)
Flower (Mille Fleur D'Uccle)
Boomerang aka Boomie (SLP)
Sterling (Blue Cochin)
Snowball (frizzle white cochin)
Summer (Welsummer)
Gilfy (bantam EE)
Crystal (silkie)
Fuzzy (frizzle black cochin)
Sadie (BLRW)
Apricot (BO)
Elvira (BCM)
Eva (CCL)
Clover (EE)
Blossom (EE)
Granite (BR)
Pegmatite (aka Peg - BR)
Freckles (SS)
Sweetie (mystery)

Dogs (there are 2 themes here) -
Basil (pug)
Barley (pug)
Jasmine (husky mix)

Cat -
Rocky

Rabbit -
Cinnamon (aka Bun Bun)

Horse -
Luna

 

[NotableNancy]

And the older ones:
Peppy - black ameraucana
No crowing and still bottom of pecking order. Still a sweetie though. He's one week away from 5 months old.


Apricot - buff brahma

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Apricot!!!!!! She is lovely and such a great name!!!
Of course Peppy is quite handsome as well... the girls will be drooling over him in no time LOL

we did butt check on 28 birds every night for about 3 weeks. We had just a couple that needed more help, we used a Calendula Salve I had made. This helped them tremendously. I definitely don't miss the poopy butts!

No dirty butts on any of my chicks this time around!!! That is so much extra work when that happens and I wasn't appreciating it enough when mine didn't get it!!

Ooh! This good be a great way to get some new babies!

All our grade schools made a strict science curriculum for kindergarten and hatching chicks isn't on it so no more. Sad. They are starting to teach to the standardized tests at the K level!!

 

[trsturself]

All our grade schools made a strict science curriculum for kindergarten and hatching chicks isn't on it so no more. Sad. They are starting to teach to the standardized tests at the K level!!

Absolutely ridiculous! NOTHING shows that this is helpful. In fact research is all showing the complete opposite as far as higher learning/thinking is concerned. When will the schools get the picture!?

 

[NotableNancy]

Animal names???

All hens...
we named 4 after deceased grandmothers:
Mamie- BA
Chugg - BA
Stella - Buff (Nancy) Brahma
Carmels (yes that was her name! Carms for short) Buff Brahma that ended up being a Roo with a twisted beak

Then various names:
Cleo -EE
Izzy -EE
Mrs Puff -EE
BeeBee -EE
Henrietta -BR
Pipsqueak -CW
Scarlet which is just Red Girl now ... my RIR
ZsaZsa -CB
Eva -CB
Leyla -EE
Lola -EE
Patty Patty -Silkie
Skye -CCL
Bonnie Blue -CCL
And my fav was Moe short for Mo Money Mo Problems... yes, my teen boy named her. But I called her Mosey.

Of my new 10 chicks only a few named
BoBo my BO
Shady my OE
Honey a GB
Dotty and Ex Leghorn

My Welsh Corgi is named Marrock which is a Welsh word for A Knight that Secretly Becomes a Werewolf! and he is so not a werewolf... and his middle name is Reese which means Peace
So he's a peaceful werewolf!!


Here he is begging with his eyes to get out of the run because they were pecking his butt.

 

[NotableNancy]

Absolutely ridiculous! NOTHING shows that this is helpful. In fact research is all showing the complete opposite as far as higher learning/thinking is concerned. When will the schools get the picture!?

When the states stop doing the pointless testing non stop throughout the school year maybe????? I KNOW. It's a shame. I think if I had kids now I would have to think about home schooling.
Although then I couldn't go shopping.
Never mind.

 

[christine9]

Absolutely ridiculous! NOTHING shows that this is helpful. In fact research is all showing the complete opposite as far as higher learning/thinking is concerned. When will the schools get the picture!?

SERIOUSLY! I don't have kids yet, but the thought of sending them to school scares me. The schools here teach the standardized tests because they rank so low in the country. Yikes!

 

[rnchick74]

Ok, How many BAD pictures does it to take to finally get a GOOD picture of your chickens? I must be doing it wrong! I can't keep these buggers still long enough to get decent pictures!

It does take a LONG time & quite a few meal worms

 

[boydfarm]

Finally some pictures ! They aren't fancy, but it's a start


The MMM chick: BR or Dominique?



One of 2 Blue Splash Marans - I'm thinking Brigitte and Babette . . .




And 2 more BC Marans - which makes 4. Adelise, Adrienne, Aimee (now you have THAT song stuck in your head . . .) and Amitee