The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

TJordan said:

Get eggs... No said my husband. Want eggs... No said my husband. Not enough pullets in last hatch I say. .......

go ahead and start collecting more from OUR birds says my husband.

but don't buy any.

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Well, he didn't say anything about trading eggs with someone else.......

Hurley said:

Huh...thought I had 15 hens. 17 eggs from the girls today, guess I have more than I thought. LOL

They enjoyed their dinner in the coop today as it was snowing this am, scratched up all the bedding and fluffed nicely.



2 more days until lockdown for my silver quail. Can't wait for hatch this weekend!

All these delicious photos of silver ams and what not, I will not look at ebay...I will not...brb.

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17eggs

I have 40 pullets/hens and this time of year I get roughly 1-3 eggs a day...

chicken pickin said:

17eggs

I have 40 pullets/hens and this time of year I get roughly 1-3 eggs a day...

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Wow, how old are they?

I have 12 layers (3 of which are bantams) and get 5-6 eggs a day.
-Banti

Hurley said:

So............is it too early to begin collecting for the real EASTER HATCHALONG set date? For chickens, t minus 19 days and counting.

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I was collecting silkie eggs and thinking HMMMMM maybe just a few in the bator LOL but no I am gonna start collecting in about a week

BantyChooks said:

Wow, how old are they?

I have 12 layers (3 of which are bantams) and get 5-6 eggs a day.
-Banti

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A little more than half of them are pullets and haven't started laying yet, I expect them to start very soon, but the others are 1-4years old. I think one issue might be the coop windows don't face the sun and I don't light the coops. Also when weather gets a tad warmer I need to do full coop clean outs and dust them all for mites/lice as well. The other day I got 6 eggs but 3 were frozen.

Hurley said:

So............is it too early to begin collecting for the real EASTER HATCHALONG set date?   For chickens, t minus 19 days and counting.

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Boy can I relate this will be my first time hatching my own eggs and I'm ecstatic, dieing to start collecting eggs. Can't wait to see what I get in my 6 eggs for education from MPC too!!!

chicken pickin said:

17eggs

I have 40 pullets/hens and this time of year I get roughly 1-3 eggs a day...

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BantyChooks said:

Wow, how old are they?

I have 12 layers (3 of which are bantams) and get 5-6 eggs a day.
-Banti

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I turned on a lamp about 10 days ago to stimulate eggs in time for the hatchalong. Prior to that I was getting an egg here and there. The hens were getting very little light, holing up in the dark coop and with winter hours. The light certainly worked, a week later and the eggs started to roll. Have been getting 7 to 10 daily, but 17 - they much have all laid today. I don't have THAT many hens...I don't think...pretty sure...

chickendreams24 said:

Boy can I relate this will be my first time hatching my own eggs and I'm ecstatic, dieing to start collecting eggs. Can't wait to see what I get in my 6 eggs for education from MPC too!!!

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for you for a great hatch!

We got 17 eggs yesterday but tossed three BC they were dirty and we have been getting a dozen plus a day, from 20 laying pullets(hens in May) and DH2B had a clumsy moment and stepped on one layed outside the nest box. Which he denied until I showed him the evidence stuck to the bottom of his boot. Lol

We also have a buff Orpington that is thinking about going broody. Hoping she holds off for a bit. Can't remember if she is the one that thought about it last fall or if it was our other buff Orpington

May have given away a bantam pullet today, but it was still a good day. My 7 week old cockerel started to crow today! Too bad I didn't have my phone on me at the time. It was the cutest little crow, so wussy!