4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[gabrielle1976]

has anybody else had two chicks mysteriously show up outside in the coop with no mother or nest to be seen???

pictures or it didnt happen

 

[RavenWood]

OK, last call to post your hatch. I see a lot of people who were active on this thread did not post the hatch rate. If you posted on the BYC hatch rate THREAD it is not on my spreadsheet. Please if you can post, i'm missing a lot of people.
thanks

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dHNQYklmX2dPaWFaLXJpVThDS0w0WGc6MQ​

Did you get mine? I posted right when you were having issues with the form, so figured I'd better check.

 

[delisha]

I wonder if that would work on my DH

 

[nothingbutbirds]

is the greenfirefarms contest open? I wanted to enter really badly but couldn't find a link any where.

 

[Poultry Couture]

What is the Green fire farms contest?

 

[Fuzzybird]

Quote: I am pretty certain I filled it out but wouldn't be much good unless there is something for the worst small batch hatch?

 

[Fuzzybird]

What is the Green fire farms contest?

Yes what is that?

 

[tadpole98]

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found the nest!! it had two egg shells opened and no momma on it. I put the other eggs in the incubator so they might hatch (they were stone cold so probably not), she put her nest under an upturned wheelbarrow insulated on one side with fertilizer bags and straw bales all around it, god mamma

 

[SleepyOwl]

I wonder why she just left them there?

 

[tadpole98]

I wonder why she just left them there?

they were freezing cold, and in the henhouse when i found them. im beginning to think i should have left them, but then i remembered they were so cold it would have been a matter of minutes before they died. The mother hen was a red star that often came out from around there but i never thought anything of it.

she probably looked away one second and back another and i had already scooped them up. I sat around awhile to make sure nobody was freaked out looking for a chick or two, but nobody was worried, and nobody had their stomach feathers plucked out.