Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[Finnie]

Would love to see a good shot of your Buckeye sometime.

You and me both.

I'll have to work on it.

 

[autumnhearth]

You and me both.

I'll have to work on it.

Lol, not the posing type I take it?

 

[autumnhearth]

Cornelia is doing much better this afternoon. She was still a bit lethargic this morning and I did not see her eating or drinking so I gave her some more water with electrolytes. Though her crop had gone down considerably and she was pooping she was still hunkered down so I decided to get some dulcolax, baby food and syringe from CVS based on the advice in this article: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/impacted-slow-and-sour-crops-prevention-and-treatments

By the time I came back she was much more active and vocal (her voice was gargled yesterday) and when I tried to feed her the mixture she was fighting me a very good sign. I managed to get some in and have reintegrating her. She was pecking at the feed on the ground so that's a good sign.

I'm actually not sure if the impaction was in her crop, it looked and felt much higher, near the top of the neck. I was able to massage it out yesterday, it was probably working its way through her digestive system this morning, hence the miserableness. I witnessed a few times yesterday that she would go to try to preen, fluffy the feathers near her tail up, move her neck and then think better of it, today she is preening

Hoping she is fully recovered by tomorrow.

 

[Finnie]

Sounds like she is making progress.

I got some pics of Gingersnap the Buckeye for you. She is 9 weeks and 2 days old here.

 

[Finnie]

Guys!! Guess what?!

Corabeth beat all the other pullets to laying! And her comb isn't even pink at all- weird.

At first I thought it was one of my lavender Ameraucana eggs, and I was thinking she had never laid one like this before. She didn't lay for the last three days, so I thought maybe she was just starting over with a darker shade of green. But when we brought it inside (two of my grown kids and I) we could tell that it was not like any of the other lav am eggs in the skelter.

It can't be anybody else's except for the Olive Egger. Well, the Cream Legbars look like they might start laying soon, but gosh, if they lay an egg this dark of green I will be very disappointed in them. So I'm pretty sure it's Corabeth's:


Next to a Lavender Ameraucana egg, which is a pale greenish color.



Same two eggs with a Barred Rock egg. These are the only three eggs I got today, because I think one of my Lav Ams is getting broody and not laying. Actually, if this is my Olive Egger egg, I sure hope she is going to get her pigment in order soon and make them darker. I had been thinking it would be dark, like a Marans egg, but with the blue underlayment.


AAAnd.... it's a double yolker!!

(I accidentally cracked it while I was taking pictures, so I went ahead and ate it.

)

 

[Finnie]

My most recent picture of Corabeth:



She was 20 weeks and three days old when this was taken yesterday. I guess she's kind of reddish in the face.

 

[autumnhearth]

Finnie, do you still think it is/was Corabeth? Our EE lays a range of blue to green sometimes pale and sometimes more concentrated.

Speaking of eggs, I found a surprise in one nest boxes yesterday afternoon. Amelia and Baby our two brown egg laying hens had laid in the morning, I went out to lunch with my dad and later when I went out to check for eggs, I found Clara's blue-green egg, Victoria's white egg and a tiny little brown egg!

Now when our first girls laid their eggs were a bit smaller than store eggs, but not the tiny pullet eggs some people get and they have never laid wind/fairy eggs before. This wee egg feels dense so I'm pretty sure it has a yolk in it.

I suppose it could have been laid by any of the three little girls as they all are brown egg layers and they are all 21 weeks old but I would expect the Brahma egg to be a lighter (and come later) and the Welsummer a bit darker or speckled. Snow our White Rock is our most likely candidate, she's been squatting the longest, she even squats for the hens and has been poking her head into the nest boxes several times a day and complaining loudly.

I was there for all our big girls first eggs, acting as a midwife, so I'm a bit disappointed I wasn't there for this one. I imagine whoever it was will skip today and lay their second egg tomorrow.


Pema Brahma is a gorgeous girl. She is filling out beautifully. I tried to get a good shot of her voluptuous figure but she just wanted to sit on my lap, which is always a good problem to have Least likely egg laying candidate. Brahmas are late to mature and she's spending all her energy getting big and fluffy.


Cornelia has had her ups and downs this past week, everytime I think she's fully better, she has a little episode of shaking her head, stretching her neck and opening her beak, or hunkering down and puffing her chest out like in the pick on the left. At first I thought there was something hard stuck in her throat but it's just how she is curving her spine. However this is now just once a day for a few minutes, usually after free ranging. The little girls have been attacking the hostas with much vigor, perhaps the thick fibrous leaves are just getting stuck in her throat. I've been just massaging her and squirting a bit of water into her beak to help things along. She has been eating and drinking well, crop is full at bedtime and empty in the morning so not too worried.



Snow chicken! Snow is my son's White Rock and I would bet she's the one who laid yesterday. She is the softest smoothest chicken we have, with very dense feathers.


The tiny pullet egg next to Amelia the Golden Buff's (sex-link/star/comet) big round egg


And next to Victoria's small white eggs. This was about the size of most of our girls first eggs. Victoria's eggs just haven't gotten much bigger.


All in a row: Amelia, Clara, Baby, Victoria and Snow? Of course this perspective makes them look more similar in size.


I've noticed this week that Amelia's eggs have been getting rounder and Baby's eggs have been getting longer that usual.

 

[KurtG]

Wooo Hooooo. We got our first egg today!!! We think it was Coco CHanel (upper right). Clara Barton upper left is the survivor from our home crop surgery and is doing very well!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I cant tell if some of these are hens or roos. Theres two blacks with smaller combs and a buff orp with a smaller comb some might be from adopt me bargain and others are fry pan.
This chick actually isnt from a hatchery its the only surviving chick from my late GLW roo.

My blrw roo

My only leghorn hen left.

Hen or roo?

My glw hen

Hens or roos?

 

[autumnhearth]

I cant tell if some of these are hens or roos. Theres two blacks with smaller combs and a buff orp with a smaller comb some might be from adopt me bargain and others are fry pan.
Hen or roo?

The Buff Orp on the left looks like a cockerel, hard to say with the the other two without seeing tails, but I would guess the black one is a roo based on posture

How old are they? Good side shots with tails would help for all of them.