by admin | Jul 8, 2019 | Chickens, Incubating, Hatching & Brooding, Poultry, Poultry Health & Wellness
How to Revive A Weak Chick How To Revive A Weak Chick Don’t let their pint-size fool you! Day-old chicks are shipped on a weekly basis with great success. Chicks ingest the yolk as the last part of their hatching process. This keeps them full and satisfied during... 
by admin | Jul 1, 2019 | Coop Tours, Coops, Runs, and Outdoor Spaces, Homestead, Incubating, Hatching & Brooding, Poultry, Tales from the Coop
Farmstead Brooding: The Extreme Edition In this Coop Tour, Amanda and Marie from the Meyer Hatchery Customer Service Remote Team show us Marie’s Extreme Edition Farmstead Brooding inside a high tunnel. Marie sells eggs at two Farmer’s Markets in the summer, so she... 
by admin | Jun 24, 2019 | Recipes
Make a Chicken Themed Cake Chicken Cake On this episode of Meyer Makes, Jess shows us how to make an adorable chicken cake and decorates it in 60 seconds! This is how she did it! For this chicken cake you will need: 8-inch by 8-inch square cake 8-inch diameter round... 
by admin | Jun 17, 2019 | Poultry Health & Wellness
Dealing With Chicken Flock Illness This post is written for Meyer Hatchery by our guest blogger: I’m Hannah of Muddy Oak Hen House sharing my story on illness hitting the backyard flock. I have had the displeasure of learning the hard way and was forced to... 
by admin | May 27, 2019 | Coops, Runs, and Outdoor Spaces, Homestead, Poultry, Poultry Health & Wellness
Uses for Diatomaceous Earth On The Homestead Diatomaceous Earth (DE) is a fine powder made of the fossil remains of diatoms which are single-celled algae with a cell wall made of silica. That’s the long way of saying, DE is a must have on your homestead! Diatomaceous...