Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long! - Page 613

My camera is in need of new batteries before I can take my pictures of my eggs  I set. Do the turkey eggs I set count even though I set them later that I should have....they won't hatch till like a week after easter.

Jamie

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Hope duck's delicious.

Yum, it is!

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Originally Posted by Cynthia12 

Glad I was born in these days I guess..can't imagine what the pioneers dealt with back in the day...can you imagine..riding horses, lifting wagon wheels, all that hard farm work, they had to have had neck and back problems! 

I think they solved that problem by dying young!

Deb

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the participation form you completed you put 62 eggs, so if your pic matches you are good.  If you set more or less than 62 then resubmit the participation form and PM Laree to delete the first one.

Atleast I think that is what I read in previous posts.

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Originally Posted by BBAcres 

Question. I posted my pic on my eggs being set. But how do I feel out for the best hatch contest. I'm not sure if I filled that out already or not lol I was going through all the forms when I first came across this thread.

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Originally Posted by kathyinmo 

You have 21 cats?  

 Well, I need to update that. We lost an old tom and had 5 kittens. On the bright side the Momma has finally been captured (hugely pregnant cats are much easier to catch) and I'll be driving the 2 hours to a vet that works on wild cats to have her spayed.

DH told me this weekend I need to stop feeding them so they'll catch the rabbits that have been eating "his raspberries". I told him they'll do their job by thinning out the babies born this spring. In truth we have very few rodents of any kind!

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Originally Posted by karimw 

 

 Well, I need to update that. We lost an old tom and had 5 kittens. On the bright side the Momma has finally been captured (hugely pregnant cats are much easier to catch) and I'll be driving the 2 hours to a vet that works on wild cats to have her spayed.

 

DH told me this weekend I need to stop feeding them so they'll catch the rabbits that have been eating "his raspberries". I told him they'll do their job by thinning out the babies born this spring. In truth we have very few rodents of any kind!

I know you do not want to get between a man and his garden.....! We tend to take it personal

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Originally Posted by Arielle 

I follow Porters information on hatching. HE has incubating and hatching info on his website for Porter's Turkeys. 

I ordered turkeys from Porters. 16 was the minimum. Oh geeeeezzzz, what am I going to do with 16 turkeys?      They are suppose to arrive sometime before mid June, but I don't have an exact date yet.

 

maybe you can give me some??

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Originally Posted by AK Michelle 

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Originally Posted by ragerkid2 

I want turkeys SOOOO bad!!!! But the parents wont let me :/

I cant even imagine what my flock is going to be like when i'm out of college and living in my own house!!

Should I run out back and take pictures or would you prefer to be surprised 

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I ordered turkeys from Porters. 16 was the minimum. Oh geeeeezzzz, what am I going to do with 16 turkeys?      They are suppose to arrive sometime before mid June, but I don't have an exact date yet.

Go broke feeding them. their worse than horses.

my BR turkeys are great on feed, last year I had 13 BR turkeys and when they were full grown they only eat 50lbs per week for 13 turkeys. 

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Should I run out back and take pictures or would you prefer to be surprised 

 

 

 

I call this my Hen Security System...

 

love the pics!!!! 

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Originally Posted by java girl 2 

ok here is my egg count, I can't get BYC to post my pics up for eggs.      I set 49 turkey eggs last sat to hatch with the chicks. I looked at the turkey eggs today and I'm down to 32 eggs................       4 EE eggs, 10 black java eggs, 6 buff orps eggs, 5 small splash cochin eggs, 14 buff orps or javas eggs from room # 1,  34 salmon faverolle eggs, 21 splash cochin/salmon faverolle eggs, 12 mystery full size eggs and 10 mystery small eggs.  all together I have 148 EGGS!!!!!!!!!!     this is the big one!!!!!!!!!

  You set 49 turkeys? How many hens do you have laying?

 

 

lets see.......  5 BRs and 3 narrs turkey hens. I got the eggs over  two weeks and some of the other eggs had not been eated so I put them in as well!!

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Originally Posted by ambrosia 

Ok... I am needing to post my eggs for the contests and whatnot.  So, here's my picture! But how do I change my entry form to 14 instead of 12?  Arielle was nice enough to send extras, but I can't figure out how to change the form... :(

 

I LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by mlmddh 

That's awesome! We have an old hay ring out back, I have been trying to think of a way to use it for chickens, ducks or something.
 

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My contest pic for the ingenius chicken invention/build:

 

This is my grow out pen. My DH DC and myself built this out of material we found laying around the farm and an old hay ring that we haven't used in years. It is all recycled stuff!! The fencing is all the way around and top and bottom of the hay ring and is orange plastic safety fencing.

 

 

The coop is 4ft x 4ft and the ring is about a 8 ft circle 4 ft tall.

 

Finally!  My eggs are in town.  I hope the mailman gets here before I have to leave for my kids appt.  Hopefully DS will get some antibiotics so I can sleep.  I will let you all know the total set later. 

OK, heres my question.  Someone here suggested a cooking thermometer...I tested it and its 1/10 away from perfect in boiling water.  I tested my eggs at the very tip of the tallest egg.  104!!!  Bottom is 99.   My other thermometers say 101, and 99 but I'm not sure where they are exactly measuring at.  Sooo...in a still air, the very tip should be 101.5 right?  I hope I didn't cook my eggs.  Or, is the top 3rd supposed to be 101 so 104 at the very tip is ok?  Where exactly do I measure!  Helppppppp.  Please no cooking these eggs.  These are the precious ones that matter the most.  Hope my hovabator gets here soon.

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Originally Posted by Mahonri 

first egg I've had explode on me was my Ground Hogs Day Hatch.

 

It was day 22, I was doing eggtopsies... and I always open the unhatched egg from the top, first I poke a hole in the fat end and then.... KABOOM all over my face, me, my clothes and talk about STINK... I came real close to vomiting.  I put it in a plastic bag, threw it in garbage, threw all my clothes in the washing machine and hit the shower.  talk about yuk... and DW was not happy about the smell in the den....

 

but it didn't explode in the bator. Thank the good LORD.

 

(when I was a kid, on the farm,  I got exploded on more than once)  too bad I forgot those experiences until I got exploded on again February 3rd.

Two questions:

1. Did it stink before you opened it? 
2. Who is MN that keeps calling you so early?  

Hope your burns are doing better today!  

Hi everyone my last shipment of eggs came today i am at work so not able to put them in yet or see if they are ok since they are 2 days late when i get home in a few hrs i will check on them and place them in the incubator and take a picture of both my incubators that are up and running and all the eggs there are suppose to be 23 in the shippment but will not know till i get home if their were extras if there was i will resubmit the entry and ask my first one to be removed so the correct amount of eggs i have is correct for the best hatch rate contest and so there will be an accurate count on how many everyone sets i am so tempted to go home early today

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Originally Posted by craz e laid e 

1. Who is MN that keeps calling you so early?  

 

I can answer this one...MN = Mother Nature