Meyers Hatchery Chickens?

[17 chickens]

Just keep taking the eggs and they will snap out of it.

 

[MrsChickens]

I wanted to report my experience with Meyer Hatchery 2/2018. I ordered 10 Marans and 5 Buff Orpingtons. The chicks were shipped and received within 24 hours picked up at USPS 10:00 a.m. The outside temps were mid 60's no winds to speak of. Opening the box at home I noticed the 2 white Maran females and the 2 Blue Copper Maran females and 2 Blue Copper Maran females were VERY TINY. The Orpingtons seemed small but I had never experienced that breed. Chicks were placed in NEW brooder with 97* readings on heat lamp, puppy pads on brooder floor, Medicated starter and supplements. I ordered GroGel, probiotics/electrolytes/vitamin packs and prepared Grogel immediately presenting to the chicks - prepared water with filtered spring water room temp with feeder filled with medicated crumble. One of the white Marans was listless and would not take Grogel, water or food. That bird died by end of day. The next morning the other white Marans died. I notified Meyer, they refunded the $23 for the birds. I told them my concerns with the frail/listless condition of the 4 Blue Copper Marans. Over the course of the first week, 2 white Marans, 4 Blue Copper Marans and 1 Golden Cucko Marans femal and all five Orpington were dead. Folks that 11 chicks out of 15 dead within the first week. After the first two losses, I mixed up an ACV in second water in the brooder. Those birds failed to thrive while one Black Copper Marans male, one Golden Cuckoo Marans and one meal maker (?) have survived. Clearly Meyer mailed chicks infected with coccidiosis. I cancelled other orders with two other sources because I didn't want to loose those chicks. I wrote to Meyer expressing all this. Their response is they don't refund chicks older than 48 hrs, directed me to a book that covered coccidiosis and basically told me to pound sand. This is clearly the wrong customer service response. I plan to challenge the $197 credit card charge and will post this on all forums. Order from Meyer at your own risk. They completely failed to step up to a problem that rests solely on their hands.

 

[17 chickens]

I wanted to report my experience with Meyer Hatchery 2/2018. I ordered 10 Marans and 5 Buff Orpingtons. The chicks were shipped and received within 24 hours picked up at USPS 10:00 a.m. The outside temps were mid 60's no winds to speak of. Opening the box at home I noticed the 2 white Maran females and the 2 Blue Copper Maran females and 2 Blue Copper Maran females were VERY TINY. The Orpingtons seemed small but I had never experienced that breed. Chicks were placed in NEW brooder with 97* readings on heat lamp, puppy pads on brooder floor, Medicated starter and supplements. I ordered GroGel, probiotics/electrolytes/vitamin packs and prepared Grogel immediately presenting to the chicks - prepared water with filtered spring water room temp with feeder filled with medicated crumble. One of the white Marans was listless and would not take Grogel, water or food. That bird died by end of day. The next morning the other white Marans died. I notified Meyer, they refunded the $23 for the birds. I told them my concerns with the frail/listless condition of the 4 Blue Copper Marans. Over the course of the first week, 2 white Marans, 4 Blue Copper Marans and 1 Golden Cucko Marans femal and all five Orpington were dead. Folks that 11 chicks out of 15 dead within the first week. After the first two losses, I mixed up an ACV in second water in the brooder. Those birds failed to thrive while one Black Copper Marans male, one Golden Cuckoo Marans and one meal maker (?) have survived. Clearly Meyer mailed chicks infected with coccidiosis. I cancelled other orders with two other sources because I didn't want to loose those chicks. I wrote to Meyer expressing all this. Their response is they don't refund chicks older than 48 hrs, directed me to a book that covered coccidiosis and basically told me to pound sand. This is clearly the wrong customer service response. I plan to challenge the $197 credit card charge and will post this on all forums. Order from Meyer at your own risk. They completely failed to step up to a problem that rests solely on their hands.

I wanted to tell you about my meyer hatchery problem...
I ordered hatching eggs from them a total of 52 eggs. I candled the eggs at day 10 and all but 2 had any growth, 50 eggs had no blood rings, no growth just no nothing but yolk! Only 2 had hatched out of all those eggs.... I was not happy at all so I went to their Facebook page and wrote a review on what happened. The next day I got an email asking to contact them so they can make this better, They offered me a choice of a full reorder of eggs, full order of credit for something else or a full refund. I took a full refund! It didn't help me to call or email them for them to give a rats butt about me it took making it public for them to make it right!
You should do this too!

 

[MrsChickens]

I did post the same review I posted above...it's the truth and it's totally unacceptable. I also posted review on their facebook page, their Twitter page, several of their YouTube videos, Yelp, Trusted Networks that processes their orders as well as every website I could find that mentioned Meyer hatchery. And, tomorrow I'm planning to challenge the $200 credit card payment. I'm really pissed at spending all that money, time and now where do I find birds at this late date?

 

[17 chickens]

I was so pissed too! I was terrified to even order from anyone but I had to get my babies...I came across Valley Farms and Ryan the owner helped me was very very nice, I had some deaths due to the usps holding my babies for an extra day for some reason but Ryan refunded me for the loss babies but did offer to ship new ones out to me. I declined the reship on birds cause we were getting hit her with freezing temps in single digits plus snow.
They had great prices too!

 

[MrsChickens]

I believe Meyer has a quality control issue. And, to take the attitude refunding only 4 ($22 each)out of the 11 dead birds within one week has cost me approx $150 in losses, caused me to now look elsewhere for Marans and finding most are sold out is even a greater loss. I would not buy from Meyer again mainly for their poor customer service. They simply don't stand behind their product which says volumes about their product!