Meyer Hatchery Chicken Pictures!!!

[Josiah Woodfield]

Anybody have more pictures of Meyer's Rhode Island Reds? I'm planning to order a hundred or so to increase my egg laying flock as they seem to have the best price on pullets, but I'm looking for birds with good confirmation and type, to possibly pick out a few to breed later. Any info would be helpful.

 

[Nambroth]

All of my chickens came from Meyer as day-olds. You are welcome to view their photos on my page:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=85615

 

[RedDrgn]

Our whole flock came from Meyers and we've been quite pleased with them so far.

 

[Chris09]

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but I'm looking for birds with good confirmation and type, to possibly pick out a few to breed later

Your not going to find any hatchery that has/ sell Rhode Island Reds that meets breed standard.
Your going to have to go with a breeder, try Shady Lane Poultry there not the best but a lot better than what you would get from a hatchery.
http://www.shadylanepoultry.com/exhbreeds.html

Chris​

 

[Bentley]

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This is a commercial brown egg laying strain with various "trade names". Sometimes they are called golden sex-links, or just sex-links, or cinnamon queens, cherry eggers, etc. Depending upon the commercial hatchery, they all seem to have their own names for them. Actually, these will be the same from hatchery to hatchery and are really called a Bovan Brown. Very very good egg laying birds as they are selected by the commercial industry for brown egg production. Nice looking birds, great egg layers, not too flighty, generally very healthy but not an actual breed of of chicken. For an egg laying flock you really cant beat them!!!

 

[Lizziespeeps]

ordered Sept 1, barred rock, SLW, GLW, wellsummer, americunas

all but one didn't make it

 

[roostersandhens]

cute

 

[anubisnut]

RIP Astrid, our big flop top girl...

We recieved these girls in March of this year and they have all began laying except one, our Buff Orp but she is close. The Partridge Rocks are huge now, I need updated photos, but they lay the biggest brown eggs of any, along with one of our Buff Orps. The Speckled Sussex started first at 17 weeks and she is the funniest of the bunch, but all were healthy and service was impecable, I highly recommend, we will order more this spring.

WOW! your birds are beautiful!

 

[RustysProvider]

I went to Meyers for the Banties!white bearded silkie cockerel close upon the movemy little mottled Cochin. Her roo is handsome.a partridge cockerelI also got a bantam welsummer and a black silkie hen

 

[saltnprepper]

These are my Meyer's Girls.


This is what I think is a RIR at 1 week

I am hoping she is a RIR what do you think? This is at 2 1/2 weeks.


Week 3


She is on the right at the feeder, but here are the others. 2 Welsummers, 2 EE, 1 Buff Orphington, 1 Delaware and the RIR?


This is freckles, she is an EE 3 weeks


This is one of the welsummers at 3 weeks


Here they all are enjoying some play time. The BO is on the right the delaware is on the left.

They are 6 weeks tomorrow and they were graduated to the big coop into the garage for the next two weeks. At that time we will say good bye to three of the girls that are being homed to my neighbor. I sure hope I can tell if they are all girls before then. Anyhow here they are in the new coop. It still needs a coat of paint on the exterior but I got the rest done today and moved them in.


The light was not left there that was just for lighting while I set up the inside. It is now anchored to the side of the coop as a dimmer while they are in the dark garage so they have some light in there while I have it closed up. They will be in there two nights to get them used to the coop so they learn to go back in for night roosting. So far they nap on the roost but they still like to sleep cuddled on the floor. It is about 50 degrees in the coop on the wall farthest from the lamp which is on the lowest I can turn the dial. I think they are just fine in there. I will have them on no heat and no supplemental light come next week at 7 weeks of age. At 8 weeks the coop will get a coat of paint and move to the outside enclosure and we will say bye to three of them.