Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long! - Page 822

On the diabetes conversation, remember that nuts are a great source of good fats and oils, and they can certainly help with weight gain.  Also diet-related, for everyone with allergies out there, dairy thickens mucouses so it is terrible for people with bad seasonal allergies - especially folks whose allergies result in sinus infections and such.  If you are suffering from allergies right now, lay off the dairy for a few weeks at least.  It will help with cramping as well...  I've been off diary for two years now, and while I used to have the worst allergies of anyone I'd ever met, we have high-pollen alerts every day now and I am fine.

She has been broody for a couple of days. The eggs or chicks in question are the eggs I have set for the Easter hatch. I was thinking I could put eggs under her on Monday that would hatch on Friday or Saturday, or just give her a couple chicks after they hatch. If that is not enough time, I may just give her a couple fresh eggs.

Nuts and OO.

THis is very interesting. I gave up milk because of the high lactose content and still eat cheeses and yogurts.  While I don't think seasonal allergies have been a problem , I am allergic to chickens and horses, which surround me. I take flonase everyday to combat the effects. ANd loratadine as needed. I can give up dairy for a couple weeks to see if it helps.  THank you for the tip!

Just a week left to enter the Egg Art Contest!   

Entries must be received by 5:00 p.m. PST, April 4th. Please read the rules carefully. A panel of BYC'ers will chose 6 finalists and they will be looking for compliance with the rules as well as the art itself. The winner will be chosen by the BYC community from the six finalists. You can post your entry here or just PM it to me if you want to remain anonymous. If you post it here you must also PM it to me. I cannot keep up with this thread much less check for contest entries.    

You can see the rules and entries HERE.

The winner will receive 6+ hatching eggs from my gorgeous flock of Blue Isbars.

Deb, was your submit button stuck or is my computer being wonky?

What an evening...I wanted to submit what I had left in the incubator and lo and behold but my Chickens rule the roost book is MIA! Thats where I wrote what I put into the bator.  It is also where I wrote the post number that I put on here!  GAHHH Try sorting thru 8000 posts to find one on rural internet.  Finally found out though that you can pull up all of your posts under your user page!  That only took about 15 minutes.  Too bad I spent about 2 hours before that flipping back pages. Sooooo Here goes..........

***Note I do have 4 or 5 that are questionable, either too dark or may be quitters.  If it didn't have an obvious blood ring or obviously clear it stayed

Poco Pollo

Barnvelder Put in 8, Have 8 left (Yay Poco but there are several I can't see in)

Wolftracks

2 Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks put in - 0 Left (they were clears Bummer)

2 Silver Phoenix put in 1 left (Very early quitter)

2 Purple Egg Project 2 left (too dark to see a thing, but I do think I saw a little bit of vein near the air sac on one.  I am a little worried the shells will be too thick for them to hatch but we will see what happens there)

4 EE Project Put in 2 left (clears)

3 FBCM put in 3 left (And I was able to see veins in them)

Shipped Icelandics

10 put in 9 left (!!!!!)

My eggs

4 Cuckoo marans 3 left

6 Barnyard Surprise 6 left

Totals...........41 put in  34 left. 

Very excited so far! With my HORRIBLE last two hatches and in experience, I am so excited to see so much development and movement in the eggs.  I definately have several of you to thank for that!  I am feeling pretty confident that we are going to have some hatches come end of next week! I just can't contain myself! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy