What is the Meyer Meal Maker chick?

A Meyer Meal Maker is a FREE day-old baby chick from Meyer Hatchery. We provide this chick in hopes you'll raise the chick to laying or butchering age, and simply donate the eggs or meat produced from that chicken to a local family or charity in need. Whether you order 3 layers or 300, you can request a Meyer Meal Maker on eligible orders you place. Same goes for meat birds! This is just one simple way you and your family can get involved and make a difference in your community.

What will my Meyer Meal Maker be? We will include one free hatchery choice chick that is similar to what is already on your order. Example: If you ordered all female layers, we send another female layer. Same goes if you order all meat birds - we would send a meat bird.  Meyer meal maker chicks will not be leg banded at any time.

How can one chick make such a difference? If you receive an average laying Meyer Meal Maker chick, you'll be able to donate roughly 182 eggs in just one year! That's over 15 dozen eggs going to hungry people in your community. Just imagine if you and every other chicken keeper around the world kept one hen for the same purpose.

Meyer Meal Makers can only be included on select layer and broiler chick orders. Meyer Hatchery is not obligated to include a Meyer Meal Maker in other poultry orders, even if you have added that option. Since the Meal Maker Chick is provided for free, they are not covered under our 48-hour guarantee and there can be no refund or reship for loss of your Meal Maker.

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 Meal Makers by Date:

2024
Date	Breed
1/2/24	Colorful Egg Layer
1/8/24	Colorful Egg Layer
1/16/24	Colorful Egg Layer
1/22/24	All Pullet
1/29/24	Black Sex- Link
2/4/24	Black Marans or Blue Marans
2/12/24	All pullet
2/20/24	Golden Buff or Barred Rock
2/26/24	All pullet
3/4/24	Olive Egger
3/11/24	All Pullet
3/18/24	Blue Orpington or Colorful Egg Layer
3/25	All Pullet
4/1/24	All Pullet
4/8/24	All Pullet
4/15/24	All Pullet
4/22/24	All Pullet from this day foward

2021		2022		2023
Date	Breed	Date	Breed	Date	Breed
1/4/21	Easter Egger	1/3/22	Olive Egger	1/3/23	Buff Orpington
1/11/21	Olive Egger	1/10/22	Easter Egger	1/9/23	Silver Laced Wyandotte
1/19/21	Easter Egger	1/18/22	Easter Egger	1/17/22	Brown Egg Layer
1/25/21	Cream Legbar	1/25/22	Blue Ameraucana	1/23/23	All Pullet
2/1/21	Olive Egger or Lavender Orpington	1/31/22	Olive Egger	1/30/23	All Pullet
2/8/21	Golden Buff	2/7/22	Barred Rock, Blue Orpington, Welsummer or Lavender Orpington	2/6/23	Brown Egg Layer
2/16/21	Barred Rock	2/14/22	Cream Legbar	2/13/23	No Meyer Meal Maker
2/22/21	Olive Egger	2/22/22	Cream Legbar or Barred Rock	2/21/23	No Meyer Meal Maker
3/1/21	Lakeshore Egger	2/28/22	Olive Egger	2/27/23	No Meyer Meal Maker
3/8/21	White Rock or Olive Egger	3/7/22	Blue Orpington	3/6/23	No Meyer Meal Maker
3/15/21	Cream Legbar or Green Queen	3/14/22	Blue Orpington	3/12/23	No Meyer Meal Maker
3/22/21	Blue Andalusian or Easter Egger	3/21/22	Blue Orpington	3/20/23	No Meyer Meal Maker
3/29/21	Olive Egger or Cream Legbar	3/28/22	Cream Legbar or Olive Egger	3/27/23	No Meyer Meal Maker
4/5/21	Blue Orpington, Olive Egger, or White Rock	4/4/22	Blue Orpington	4/3/23	No Meyer Meal Maker
4/12/21	Blue Andalusian, Light Brown Leghorn, Buff Brahma, or Green Queen	4/11/22	Olive Egger	4/10/23	No Meyer Meal Maker
4/19/21	Green Queen, Easter Egger, or Olive Egger	4/18/22	Olive Egger	4/17/23	No Meyer Meal Maker
4/26/21	Easter Egger	4/25/22	Blue Orpington, Black Copper Marans, and Olive Egger	4/24/23	White Leghorn or Blue Orpington
5/3/21	Olive Egger or Cream Legbar	5/2/22	Welsummer	5/1/23	White Crested Black Polish
5/10/21	Black Copper Marans or Cream Legbar	5/9/22	Blue Orpington	5/8/23	Brown Egg Layer or White Crest Black Polish
5/17/21	New Hampshire Red or Welsummer	5/16/22	Olive Egger, Cream Legbar, Blue Orpington	5/15/23	All pullet
5/24/21	Olive Egger or Cream Legbar	5/23/22	Olive Egger, Blue Orpington	5/22/23	All Pullet
6/2/21	Olive Egger	5/31/22	Olive Egger	5/31/23	All Pullet
6/7/21	Welsummer or Cream Legbar	6/6/22	Olive Egger	6/5/23	All pullet
6/14/21	Olive Egger	6/13/22	Cream Legbar, Blue Orpington	6/12/23	Brown Egg Layer
6/21/21	Green Queen	6/21/22	Cream Legbar	6/20/23	Brown Egg Layer
6/28/21	Green Queen	6/27/22	Olive Egger	6/26/23	Brown Egg Layer
7/6/21	Olive Egger or Cream Legbar	7/5/22	Olive Egger or Cream Legbar	7/5/23	All Pullet
7/12/21	Olive Egger or Cream Legbar	7/11/22	Exchequer Leghorn, White Crested Black Polish, or Blue Orpington	7/10/23	All Pullet
7/19/21	Cream Legbar	7/18/22	Olive Egger	7/17/23	Brown Egg Layer
7/26/21	Cream Legbar	7/25/22	Blue Orpington or Olive Egger	7/24/23	All Pullet
8/2/21	Olive Egger	8/1/22	Blue Orpington	7/31/23	Exchequer Leghorn
8/9/21	Cream Legbar	8/8/22	Speckled Sussex or Blue Orpington	8/7/23	Colorful Egg Layer
8/16/21	Cream Legbar	8/15/22	Welsummer	8/14/23	Brown Egg Layer
8/23/21	Olive Egger	8/22/22	Welsummer	8/21/23	Brown Egg Layer
8/30/21	Cream Legbar or Olive Egger	8/29/22	Welsummer or Blue Orpington	8/27/23	All Pullet
9/7/21	Barred Rock	9/6/22	Blue Orpington	9/5/23	All Pullet
9/13/21	Cream Legbar	9/12/22	Speckled Sussex or Welsummer	9/11/23	Brown Egg Layer
9/20/21	Olive Egger or Cream Legbar	9/19/22	Blue Orpington	9/18/23	Brown Egg Layer
9/27/21	Cream Legbar	9/26/22	Blue Orpington or Olive Egger	9/25/23	All Pullet
10/4/21	Blue Orpington	10/3/22	Blue Orpington	10/2/23	All Pullet
10/12/21	Cream Legbar or Olive Egger	10/11/22	Blue Orpington	10/10/23	All Pullet
10/18/21	Blue Copper Marans or Blue Orpington	10/17/22	Easter Egger or Blue Andalusian	10/16/23	Colorful Egg Layer
10/25/21	Welsummer	10/24/22	Blue Orpington	10/23/23	Colorful Egg Layer
11/1/21	Welsummer or Blue Andalusian	10/31/22	Blue Orpington	10/30/23	Colorful Egg Layer
11/15/21	Cream Legbar	11/7/22	Barred Rock	11/6/23	All Pullet
11/29/21	Olive Egger	11/14/22	Blue Orpington or Lavender Orpington	11/13/23	Colorful Egg Layer
12/6/21	Cream Legbar	11/28/22	Easter Egger	11/27/23	Colorful Egg Layer
12/13/21	Blue Ameraucana	12/5/22	Easter Egger	12/4/23	Olive Egger
12/27/21	Easter Egger	12/12/22	Easter Egger	12/11/23	Easter Egger
		12/19/22	Easter Egger	12/18/23	All Pullet