Mt. Healthy Hatchery

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I just placed an order for chicks from Mt. Healthy hatchery :wee

Ship date is March 16th. I ordered one of almost everything available, and I want to see pictures of everyone's Mt. Healthy birds! Chick photos as well as adult photos would be very much appreciated. I'm ordering 10 in with mine for a neighbor and will need to try and guess which are which before giving her hers. I could switch birds later if necessary but hers are purely pets, and I hate to make her kids part with one of their babies later on. I am getting 15, so 25 chicks total.
Here is my order. If you've gotten any of these breeds from Mt. Healthy specifically please share photos!
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I'm especially worried about telling my olive egger chick apart from her 5 Easter eggers. Any genetic marking tricks I can use to pick her out? This is the cross they supposedly use.
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I'm especially worried about telling my olive egger chick apart from her 5 Easter eggers. Any genetic marking tricks I can use to pick her out? This is the cross they supposedly use. View attachment 4058389
Hi! We have an olive egger from Mt Healthy! She has feathered legs, as most of their OEs do (they mix with Marans mostly)… she looks just like a BCM but has black puffy cheeks! I would get a pic but we are buried under snow…once spring comes I will!
 
Hi! We have an olive egger from Mt Healthy! She has feathered legs, as most of their OEs do (they mix with Marans mostly)… she looks just like a BCM but has black puffy cheeks! I would get a pic but we are buried under snow…once spring comes I will!
Aw awesome! Good to know. Hopefully I can pick her out! 🤞
No idea what all their EEs are crossed with.
 
The Bielefelder female pic either is a male, or not a Biel. Females are the chipmunk stripe coloration, like a lot of breeds.

Four Bielefelders and one Blue Australorp from Mt. Healthy. All pullets.
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You mean the photo the hatchery has in the icon? Huh.
Do you have any profile pictures of yours? I just thought that might help for identification.
 
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This is all I can find from that week, and it's not very good. I have several from when they were a few weeks old.
Three-ish weeks old.
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The closet is Sunny. Pip is the one looking to the right, next to the Blue Australorp. Yes, 3 weeks, that much comb, and Pip is a girl.
 
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This is all I can find from that week, and it's not very good. I have several from when they were a few weeks old.
Three-ish weeks old.
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The closet is Sunny. Pip is the one looking to the right, next to the Blue Australorp. Yes, 3 weeks, that much comb, and Pip is a girl.
I didn't see your leg and just thought you had a sock in your brooder. 🤣
 
Any concerns still about the salmonella thing years ago? I know it's been like 10 years, but I saw something about it today.
 

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