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My blue Ameraucana is 24 weeks and just started laying…brown eggs 😪 $23 from Meyer, meets all the other breed standards. Guess she’s not like real butter, more like margarine! Amerikan-I-lay you a brown egg?

MyPetChicken sells “Silked White Easter Eggers” that are supposed to lay blue eggs. Not seeing any current availability but who knows when that might change. The reviews seem positive. Could get a flock to start & breed selectively from that!

In our town, we have a local USPS distribution center they’re all held at - they don’t go beyond that to the smaller post offices (like the one closest to me). When they arrive there, I’ll get an immediate phone call to come pick them up from to the truck delivery bay area in back. Last time I...

Please do not pop it, opening it may increase risk of infection. I found a thread with detailed info from @Allsfairinloveandbugs about a different chicken with frostbite blisters on feet. She recommended: -keeping chicken in warm, dry, clean place -baby aspirin: given once daily...

This is how my order of 4 chicks from Meyer’s was shipped in September. They were all happy campers, chirping away. The little heat pack envelope lasted for their ~48hr travels, plus they have each other in an enclosed space.

I recall a post from June where a member updated an old thread about how a vet fixed their chicken’s missing tongue (it had emerged through the neck, from underneath the entire beak!) Probably unrelated, since you don’t see any evidence of a tongue at all, but thought I’d share in case it proved...

😢 She died (wry neck) <1 week old. I tried looking up other breeds at chick-age from MPC website, though, possible similarities to light brown leghorn, partridge olive egger, and/or Welsummer. It’ll always be a mystery!

Aw, just look at her! How can anyone not love chickens.

Meyer’s has a section of Meyer Hatchery Exclusives. I always think it’s fun to try and add a few unique breeds based on hatchery. I ordered Meyer’s Blue Polish & Wheaten Olive Egger this fall and both pullets are so friendly. Have you considered any other coloring of Orpington than buff? My...

My lil’ autumn pullet

We had a ~4-month old pullet, non-laying, end up by her lonesome after her flockmates fell prey to a predator. We got 3 baby chicks for her and in some ways, she reverted to acting like a younger chick herself (chirps included!). She never pecked on her young new friends. We did supervised...

Received new baby chicks today 😍 ambitiously attempting to guess how this lil’ Green Queen (hybrid from Meyer) will grow up! Feet are feathered. Her little stripe is interesting. 4 toes. What’s everyone’s guesses on how she’ll feather out?

-lots of handling as young chicks **I’ve always found chicks raised by a broody to be notably less friendly with me; my little hatchery ones, on the other hand, are great! I hold mine from the moment I get them & have never had an issue. -offer feed out of your hand **Association: Hands...

With the crater-like appearance surrounded by abnormally shaped skin, my first thought was squamous cell carcinoma (skin cancer). Is anything oozing or able to be expressed from the site? Have you cleaned it with anything? 3 threads with pictures/examples of SCC, including what owners did to...

Today, I removed piles of marigold stalks that had been planted from seed as an attempt to deter our neighborhood groundhog. This, too, after my outer mint boundary was also one of her preferred snacks!