Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[trsturself]

That is so true!! If it were up to me I would have 62 chickens, ducks and geese in the house with a little bowl of feed for each...maybe with their names on them. But I work really hard at letting them live a natural life, even in this cold weather. They seem to be much better at it then I am.

They do it A LOT better than me. I'm a wimp.
Watching the song birds on my porch and bare tree out front reminds me that my big fluffy chickens in their dry coop, and horses with thick winter coats, will be just fine.
Of course my dogs are all laying here in the warm front room with me. lol

 

[jtn42248]

They do it A LOT better than me. I'm a wimp.
Watching the song birds on my porch and bare tree out front reminds me that my big fluffy chickens in their dry coop, and horses with thick winter coats, will be just fine.
Of course my dogs are all laying here in the warm front room with me. lol

Exactly my case. My 7 dogs are distributed as follows:
4 (Pomeranian, Shelty, Greyhound mix and Short Haired Pointer) on my bed
2 (Boxer/Bull Dog mix sisters) on sofa
1 (Anatolian) curled up in front of fireplace
Everyone is quite comfy apparently but I have no place to sit or lay...go figure.

 

[daniellea2912]

Lovely girl, but may I suggest that she needs a a beak trim. A simple snip with dog nail clippers should do it.

I do trim it, she gets it dremmeled every other week or so. I can't get it back to normal length though due to the quick being too long

 

[jonsccm]

Sooooooo...... Availiblity is up for next year now....... That's cool!

 

[christine9]

Oh my goodness...sorry to hear of everyone getting such cold weather and snow! Blah!
I hope this is not a sign of things to come.

I have decided to separate Peppy from the group. He is a fine rooster, but apricot is having such a hard time with the mating process. Once she submits, she stays like that for so long that others come over and peck her. I though separating her would make reintroducing her worse, so I will separate him and see how it goes. I may have to rehome one of them which really stinks. I like them both so much. But I will do what I think is best. For now, peppy will go into the grow out area (which I had been using for storage) and we'll see how it goes.

 

[christine9]

Sooooooo...... Availiblity is up for next year now....... That's cool!

I was trying so hard to resist! Oops...ordered ex leghorn, OE, and silver gray dorking!! Three is a well restrained order!

 

[COChix]

Exactly my case. My 7 dogs are distributed as follows:
4 (Pomeranian, Shelty, Greyhound mix and Short Haired Pointer) on my bed
2 (Boxer/Bull Dog mix sisters) on sofa
1 (Anatolian) curled up in front of fireplace
Everyone is quite comfy apparently but I have no place to sit or lay...go figure.

I too am an animal lover and constantly worry about the flock, cause I figure if I am cold, they surely must be.....funny it sounds a lot like our house as we have four dogs ourselves. They are dispatched as follows this am.

1 anatolian Sheppard lounging on big bed, I made in the living room out of a couple dog beds covered with a old down comforter.
1 Sheppard mix, on the couch
2 bully breeds - one on our bed and one on the couch

I was a my wits end yesterday as all the dogs kept trying to be on the couch and we had no where to sit, thus me assembling the big bed in the living room. The bully breed (two girls) are delicate, sort of lol, and have sweaters on as they tend to be cold in the winter due to their short hair. I never thought I would be putting sweaters on my dogs but totally get it now....the Sheppard boys seem to fair better in the cold. Diego, my anatolian fairs the best with cold and goes out with me every hour or so to check for eggs, so they aren't frozen.

I saw on the DIY thread of showing off inventions or tricks people have come up with on here a solution for keeping eggs from freezing, which I thought was pretty smart. They used the seedling heat matts and lined the nest boxes with that and have it set up on a thermal cube which controls the matts and when they turn on and when they turn of based on the temp outside. I will find the link, the thread has been a great inspiration for me and lots of ideas in there.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/631861/diy-thread-lets-see-your-inventions/2980#post_14334217

Here is the guys page that posted on the seedling heat matts, I don't remember what page it is on in the DIY thread as it is really long.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6860533/heated-nesting-boxes-help-stop-frozen-eggs/

Here are a few shots from this am.....I think it is really pretty, just cold, lol.

 

[Melabella]

Sooooooo...... Availiblity is up for next year now....... That's cool!

DId you notice anything new? I didn't but admit I didn't really go in depth. I was disappointed that they don't have Austra Whites available. THat chat box came up and I asked her if they would later spring and she said not at this time.. what ever that means. For anyone wanting to give them a try.. I saw that My Pet Chicken has some Austra Whites listed. I have gotten 3 eggs in a row from Austra... Todays egg was a large! Very very pale pink... but looks almost white.

Yippie!

MB

 

[jonsccm]

I did not see anything new. They have a few reasons for removing a breed. I think sometimes they may show up latter in the year but for some reason they are not comfortable with the breeding flock. Also on the cross breeds they need to maintain 2 flocks so it can make things riskier

 

[mrsblanchard]

I'm happy to oblige.



Partridge Rocks:

This little lady:

Became this pretty girl:

This little girly:

Became this beauty:

Blue Splash Marans:

This stinker:

Became this big ham:

Speckled Sussex:

This cutie:

Became this big girl:

And finally, this little one:

Became this character:

And, because it's cute:

I live the baby and grown pics, so cute! And my how they change!