Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

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Purple plaid is always better... can cheer you up on the gloomiest of days

 

[autumnhearth]

Purple plaid is always better... can cheer you up on the gloomiest of days

Lol, I like the purple plaid, but the bottoms are stark black rubber and the chocolate plaid are brown, I'm totally an Autumn

Love the kitchen ceiling.

And love everyone's pretty chickens!

 

[christine9]

I have to say, at this point, I'm pretty positive this girl is a splash Ameraucana and not the lavendar orp. No muffs or beard, so I'm sure that's what caused the confusion in the first place. What do you think?

AND my broody finally gave up on her own. After nine whole weeks, she was running around with everybody else like nothing ever happened. She hasnt gotten all her color back yet, but she's more active than ever!

And my darling Peppy (not Meyers). Still trying to manage puberty. He's crowing but still pretty scared of the girls 90% of the time.

 

[NotableNancy]

@ NotableNancy so do they get the run when the older girls free range? They are all turning out so pretty and I love the chunnel!

That was the first time I let them in there and will try to let them in the rest of the week while the big girls are out. I thought it would let them get familiar with the big run that way the first time they're in there they aren't scared running away from the big girls and not knowing where to go or hide! That worked out well last time so I am doing it again. So far so good. Next week will probably be the first time I let them in the run together. Fingers crossed!

Quote: He looks like such a sweetie. You have so many different ages! Yes, that would be tough.

My Meyer Exchequer Leghorn, Roha, has pretty much finished her molt, so I thought I'd share a picture or two. It seems like she has a lot more white on her now than before, although comparing her now with a picture of her before her molt, I guess it isn't a huge difference. Her tail has pretty much entirely changed color, though!



Here's a picture of Roha from over the summer:





And since I'm here, here's Miss Frou-Frou the splash Marans. She's grumpy about her molt, so I gave her a good wattle scritching.

I've got to get out and get some updated pictures of the 2014 babies. They're all getting their combs and wattles in already! No eggs yet, of course, but they can take their time as far as I'm concerned.

They'll be 5 months old next weekend, although I'll be out of town so I'll have to take their monthly pictures before then.

I'm loving all the coop and home renovation pictures!

Shady is lovely and I adore Victoria! I used to be a Plymouth Rock girl, but those Dorkings sure have stolen my heart!

Roha is darling... do you have another one too or just her? I'm so glad I got them. I'm a sucker for the black/white birds. Love black/white with the splash of red ... they were the colors of my wedding 1000 years ago so maybe that's why I like them? That and the buff/wheaten birds.
Frou Frou is looking cute as ever!

@NotableNancy
I love your OE! She's just gorgeous.

Thanks!!

Purple plaid is always better... can cheer you up on the gloomiest of days

Never heard of Bogs... now I have to get me some!! I love all the patterns!!! And Yes to the purple plaid!!

I have to say, at this point, I'm pretty positive this girl is a splash Ameraucana and not the lavendar orp. No muffs or beard, so I'm sure that's what caused the confusion in the first place. What do you think?

AND my broody finally gave up on her own. After nine whole weeks, she was running around with everybody else like nothing ever happened. She hasnt gotten all her color back yet, but she's more active than ever!

And my darling Peppy (not Meyers). Still trying to manage puberty. He's crowing but still pretty scared of the girls 90% of the time.

I agree... Splash Ameraucana not Lav Orp. I guess you will have a big credit?? OMG... NINE weeks being broody??? Just sitting on nothing? Did she try to hatch anything? Peppy always has the same look on his face.... just biding his time till the girls are all his!! LOL so funny

 

[trsturself]

Nice to know about the branch cutters. I also had head that they were a handy solution but I am beginning to think the cut throat and let bleed out is best and fastest. No blood to the brain = brain dead and not signals from the nervous system. I am only guessing here since I have never done the deed myself and am not really sure how. I have looked at the YouTube video instructions and it is much like watching Texas Chainsaw Murders. We have always been a "no kill" farm except for critters that were not welcome here and having to put down the occasional seriously injured bird. However, I have 5 Andalusian hens that are 8 months old that are pushing their luck. I may end up just re-homing them but I know that I will never buy a Mediterranean breed again. They just are too aggressive as they mature. You say you skinned the bird. That is a lot more logical if you are going to skin and de-bone in the end anyway. But, what about gutting? Is it done the same way?

I won't have a mediterranean breed either. Too flighty. The gutting was the same.

I know... me too!! Waiting on my 2 Brabanters and Silkie to lay! I finally am 99% sure my silkie is a girl... unless boys can sing egg songs and squat for other chickens. I have heard of them sitting in the nest box to teach pullets where to lay but never an egg song. But I want an egg first to to say 100% sure.



I'm starting to sprout for my girls for the fall/winter since there's nothing green for them to eat outside. They love scratching through the wet leaves for worms/bugs and what not but I'm letting the sprouts go to grow for 5 days or so to get them green rather than more protein. Does anyone else do this and is it really helping them get more veggies in them or should I just buy bruised zucchini and things like that??


Oh, and I'm starting to integrate my little ones with the biguns' since I realized my 8-9 week olds are as big as my Silkie!! LOL, guess it's time

I thought one of my silkies was a girl up until it grew streamers and started crowing at 6 months! It had squatted for me about a week or two before that and what sounded like an egg song and clucking like a hen. No doubt about it now though. Fingers crossed for you that yours is a girl!

I bet you're glad that is done. How is your flock now? We plan on just sticking with the quick knife method. We've only processed the one still but we learned from that one to have a very sharp knife on hand. So since then I purchased a new knife.

I sprouted a little for them last year in my sprout jars. I sprouted some for me and them. The BOSS sprouted really well but when I sprouted beans they did not do to well, they got all nasty looking. Also, oats sprouted really well too. I used small jars, so I need to sprout on a bigger scale this time. If you get a lot of jars set up within a weeks time you can have a nice rotation schedule set up so you are always feeding them one jar and starting them another each day.

I am going to try this once our kitchen remodel is done, too much going on here right now to add more work.

Good luck with the integration!

I am going to pass on the Andulasions next time too. I have two of them. One of them is still being picked on by most of the other chickens and she now is scared of everything, including us. She screams when we enter the coop. I guess since everyone is picking on her, I can't blame her. They're also 2 of the reasons why I cannot free range the chickens since they were always flying out of the yard. I love my Golden Campine too, she is so beautiful but too flighty for us and our setup.

The flock seems a lot happier. The 3 that wouldn't come out of the coop come out now.

I sprout peas and lentils for my flock. I do it in a quart jar and put in about 1/2c total. I usually have 2 jars going at all times so I always have one ready.

@NotableNancy ok, my turn! I got ZERO eggs yesterday. Between brooding and molting, I'm eggless. Just hoping complaining will turn things around.

I'm planning on trying to break the broody in two more weeks once the little ones are let out to integrate. I refuse to buy eggs!

We are getting 0-2 eggs a day due to the molting. I hate it but refuse to buy eggs too.


Our update...

Had to do surgeries on 4 birds for bumblefoot. I'll be doing a post on my blog in a couple days. Stupid rain!

A couple girls have eye boogers the last couple days and one was fluffed up and not looking herself today. Gave them some vetrx. Hope they pull through ok.

Our pug had her puppies. We were expecting 3 maybe 4 but she ended up having 7!

 

[christine9]

I agree... Splash Ameraucana not Lav Orp. I guess you will have a big credit??  OMG... NINE weeks being broody???  Just sitting on nothing?  Did she try to hatch anything?    Peppy always has the same look on his face.... just biding his time till the girls are all his!! LOL  so funny

your comment about Peppy
I'm going to submit some more pictures to Meyers since you agree. They told me a few weeks ago it was too early to tell. I should have enough credit to covering shipping for next year! (Not that I have much space left). And yes, the broody was sitting on golf balls. I just couldn't bare to cage her and have three separate groups of chickens to care for. The little ones are integrating next week, but she gave up first LOL.

 

[autumnhearth]

Cute cute cute pugs! I was excited to see Clara's egg this morning had a concentrated pool of blue at the bottom, reminded me of a geode

 

[chickadee5002]

Our pug had her puppies. We were expecting 3 maybe 4 but she ended up having 7!

We have a pug and love her to death!

 

[HighStreetCoop]

Our pug had her puppies. We were expecting 3 maybe 4 but she ended up having 7!

OMG!!!! My godmother has Pugs. I adore them. My Mastiff loves playing with the pugs at the dog park (or really he just lays on the ground and they play on top of him, but he enjoys it).

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I have to say, at this point, I'm pretty positive this girl is a splash Ameraucana and not the lavendar orp. No muffs or beard, so I'm sure that's what caused the confusion in the first place. What do you think?

What type of comb does she have? Is it possible, since she's clean-faced, that she's a splash Orpington? I don't remember what all you ordered, so just wondering.

Roha is darling... do you have another one too or just her?  I'm so glad I got them. I'm a sucker for the black/white birds. Love black/white with the splash of red ... they were the colors of my wedding 1000 years ago so maybe that's why I like them?   That and the buff/wheaten birds. 
Frou Frou is looking cute as ever!

Just her. I wanted white egg layers, but knowing how often they are not friendly, I wanted to try an assortment and see which I liked, personality-wise. So I have one each of Meyer's Exchequer Leghorn, Ancona, Golden Campine, Egyptian Fayoumi, Light Brown Leghorn, and Silver Lakenvelder. Honestly, for personality, I think I like miss Roha the most out of all of them. Close second would be Marama the Fayoumi, such a personality on her! I love my Rangi (the Ancona), but she gets bullied and doesn't seem to fit in well with a mixed flock. :/ My Campine, Ihi, makes me laugh so much, she's so funny! The Lakenvelder and LB Leghorn are both too flighty for my liking, though. They are super pretty, but not very friendly.


Out of those, I would get an Exchequer, a Campine, and a Fayoumi again if I was going for white eggers. I haven't tried Andalusians, Sumatra, Hamburgs, or Buttercups, so I might give them a try as well. Polish and Appenzellers have me a bit paranoid, so not sure about them. And Dorkings, they can lay anything from white to light brown, so I definitely will get them again but not for their egg color--just because they are such darlings!