We have a winner!!!!  Barngoddess01 wins 12 raffle tickets to the Rocky Mountain Chickenstock raffle where she could win Greenfire eggs, Blue Isbars, OEs, Silkies or one of over 67 other prizes!!

Kathyinmo graciously deferred as she had already won another prize in the hatchalong... Thanks to everyone who participated!!!

Same here i have photos to enter but there is only an see photos link how do we enter?

You are exactly right, and to prove it, the majority of the eggs that hatched were yours! I got 7 out of your eggs, and 2 of them are very weak but trying...the low temps just kicked everyone's bum. I had no idea it was dropping so low at night. I'm very determined to get that fixed, pronto! 

I have Wellies, Turkeys and Geese that won't all rit in the rcom, no matter how I stack, so LG it is for some of them...until I get this thing fixed.

NOTE TO SELF: Do not send all fresh eggs to others prior to Holiday Hatchalongs.

Chanteclers are worse than Silkies, but you can fit 3 times as many eggs under them, too!!

Good job! Build more coops. 

It's fairly common for these birds- it's different from feather-picking, and is some form of grooming ritual. I didn't get it fixed until I made 10" individual roosts all over my coop. They do it at bedtime. I didn't make those roost for that reason, but it was what clued me in. I ignore the de-bearding now.
 

have a chick that just hatched . when its cord detatched from its egg it left a very large piece attatched to the chick and the chicks bottom area, where the cord is attatched, is red and swollen. none of my others looked like this when they hatched so i am just wondering if i should be worried? i have a kind of poor picture, but its the best i can do.

50's not so bad. I actually "group" mine so it appears like I have less. For example, I have:

36 adults.

7 older juvies in the coop

15 younger juvies in the basement

23 newly hatched chicks

5 ducks.

Now, see, doesn't that look much better than ... 86?

Holy... 86?? Today was the first day I tallied that. And I sold a bunch on Saturday, too.

Well, I've been too busy to even enter in some of the contests but anyway, if anyone is curious at all -

I set 42 eggs, and got a little over 30 total to hatch. For the first time ever I actually had chick #1 on day 18, weird I know, then the last chicks, just a couple, were on day 22, Easter.

I got myself some Shamos of neat colors, some Polish, some EE's, some Olive Eggers, and some gorgeously bilaterally tufted Olive Eggers, too.

Boy or girl, doesn't matter, I'm keeping this beaut!

And here's all three of the tufted Olive Eggers I hatched. The one on the left has only one tuft, the middle one has two nice big ones, and the one on the right has one big one, one small one.

My "replacements," are now hatching. I filled up the HovaBator a few days after I set the Easter Hatch eggs. Just what I need, ya know..... more chicks.

Ahhhh, yes. It's always excitement around the Bonham homestead. Always something going on.

Tyler (27 yr old son that lives in our guest house) has always been a big baby. Always. So, when he moans and groans and complains about aches and pains, I rarely pay much attention.  This morning he said he was up half the night with nausea and pain in the back (kidney area). 'Hmmm,' I thought.... Later, he ran some errands for me. Then, at about 4:30, he screamed through the intercom to me. "HELP ME! ! !" I went to check on him and he was very very pale, holding his side, and moaning in obviously tremendous pain. Taylor (his girlfriend) took him to the ER. He just got home.        Kidney stone. Yowser! That's gonna hurt. They told him it was quite large and still pretty high up. It will be another day or so before he can pass it. THAT is gonna hurt.

Mike went to the store the other day, and I told him to pick up some Zest (bar soap). Then why, when I got in the shower, was there Dial soap in my shower? I always buy Zest. For nearly 40 years we have used Zest. Why did he buy Dial? I asked him, when I talked to him on the phone last night. He thinks he's real funny. I don't. He bought Zest also. It was "hiding," in a soap container in the towel closet. Funny? I don't think so.


Why do I have 6 broodies on nests tonight? Huh? Can you tell me? Why??? I have already let 4 broodies hatch, and they have completed their tour of duty raising their chicks. One Icelandic is brooding chicks now, and 2 more are on eggs. Don't I have enough to deal with, besides trying to find a dozen broody apartments here? Besides that, I just hatched a bunch of chicks!?

I want a vacation. Thing is, I don't want to leave here. I just want everyone else to leave! I want a housekeeper, too. I'm gonna get one, too.   Someday....

My hatch attempt is officially over. Out of 12 eggs I got zero babies. Eggtopsies showed they all quit apparently very soon after I candled on day 10. I didn't candle on lockdown, because the house was cool and dry that day, and it would have been hazardous to move them somewhere more warm and humid to do the candling. 

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I "multi'd" a bunch of quotes... let's see if I remember what I had to say... 
 

I am there with you, vying for worst hatch ever... 12 went to lockdown, zero came out. Can't offer advice, only sympathy. 

Let's keep hoping someday it'll be completely legal, everywhere! 

X2 and thanks for the sympathy and encouragement! 

 I think they have vocal cords all the way down to their toes...
 

  Good! I am jumping right back in, myself. I put 12 fresh eggs from my own gals in tonight, after I cleaned out the quitters & wiped down the bator.  

Sooooo, neighbor. Whatcha got, and how much?  

(Yeah, sorta serious... I have fuzzybutt jealousy.) 

 That was a little inconvenient... 

Oh, how heartwrenching! I hope the little gal makes it okay!  

ETA my other response I managed to forget. 

We have a winner!!!!  Barngoddess01 wins 12 raffle tickets to the Rocky Mountain Chickenstock raffle where she could win Greenfire eggs, Blue Isbars, OEs, Silkies or one of over 67 other prizes!!

Kathyinmo graciously deferred as she had already won another prize in the hatchalong... Thanks to everyone who participated!!!

check out the feet on this chick!

both feet are like that, and with a few random feathers too

We have a winner!!!!  Barngoddess01 wins 12 raffle tickets to the Rocky Mountain Chickenstock raffle where she could win Greenfire eggs, Blue Isbars, OEs, Silkies or one of over 67 other prizes!!

Kathyinmo graciously deferred as she had already won another prize in the hatchalong... Thanks to everyone who participated!!!

Here is my Cutest Chick Entry! It was really hard to choose between the Bantams and Standards they are all so cute!

First and last chick to hatch.