2015 HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long, Join us IF YOU DARE!

[Sally Sunshine]

oh man do I have pictures! let me try to turn them into a collage so I don't flood the thread with boars head photos haha

Making the head

finshing it up. the white in the second severed dead photo will dry clear and make the gore look fresh and wet, but they needed it before it was dry so i don't have a pic of it dry.


will edit again to add Harry Potter Prop Pictures



We live in NH, so we don't usually get snakes other than garter snakes, I did see two rats- we just moved where their run is and we dug into the hill and I think we tore up a nest. Weirdest part is that one of them is a pink eyed white, so obviously it is an escaped pet, I havent owned PEW rats for over 2 years so I am super impressed it survived 2 NH winters- but they have to go either way. I am having a beast of a time catching them though, they have no interest in have-a-hearts and I am too afraid to use snap traps near the chickens, or just out in the open since I have cats wandering around. Weasels are a possibility though I haven't seen them, but I can't imagine anything larger than a rat or weasel getting in the coop.

that is freaking cool!!!! so now I KNOW you could win all those contests now that I seen what you can do! have you entered them all!

I need to candle today (day 7!) but I can't find the flashlight and my kids are driving me crazy! ARGH!

glad I am not the only one that delt with this today goodness what a day!!

Ok last candling before setting tomorrow. I have 2 viable and 4 strong maybes. Dark but could not make out veins.

5 disgaurded. 4 clear one blood ring. I am hoping for atleast 4 hatched. Please keep your fingers crossed.

Hello all

@CaseyV

Thanks for bringing me over here

Now I just need to read read read and catch up

I set eggs on the 16th so I will be a post hatch-a-long hatcher. My second attempt at incubating eggs. I was just telling Casey that I went overboard this time. 39 total eggs, all shipped:

18 Lavender Orpingtons from breeder #1
14 Lavender Orpingtons from breeder #2
7 Jubilee Orpingtons from breeder #3

Candled day 7 yesterday:
#1 a few questionable, most clear
#2 6 very active embryos
#3 all seem clear

Hey!!! welcome!!! good job Casey!!! no need to catch up! what do you want to know just ask! lol we can fill you in! I screwed up my hatch maybe, thats where I am at, and in lockdown. left the coolerbator open all night, temps were stable but obviously not humidity. time will tell. whats up with lav orphs clear?

My girls are due to finish their molting in a month. Been such a long molt (their first ever!) and in the meantime I've been fixing up the coop some to make it nicer. Mite problem is being managed, so the new coop can wait for spring. I'm installing a sand tray under the roosts to catch poo, so Sally I may be able to give word on if that's more helpful!

AAAAH SO MANY CHICK PICS! I love it!

That would be awesome if you tried it and let me know!!! dont forget me please lol!!!

 

[tiffani day]

Very nice!

Had to get it done before we get all this rain?

thank you and yes we just beat the rain

 

[Saris]

I'm trying so hard not to mess with my eggs today. I want to wait until tomorrow night, which would be day 4 plus some hours. My flashlight hand is itchy.

 

[tiffani day]

I'm trying so hard not to mess with my eggs today. I want to wait until tomorrow night, which would be day 4 plus some hours. My flashlight hand is itchy.

I think we all suffer from itchy hands

 

[Scovy Momma]

OH wow!!!!! my chicks are going to be the ugliest chicks IF they hatch at this point lol those are lovely, they always are so cute! congrats!!! well done!!

Awww! All chickies are cute, Sally!
See?

 

[Cynthia12]

Ok last candling before setting tomorrow. I have 2 viable and 4 strong maybes. Dark but could not make out veins.

5 disgaurded. 4 clear one blood ring. I am hoping for atleast 4 hatched. Please keep your fingers crossed.

 

[sunflour]

So jealous of all the hatchings going on.

Just accomplished reintegration of a recovered hen to her flock, it took 2 months! Was looking like I would need to let her have a try at hatching her own family and build a second coop.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Awww! All chickies are cute, Sally!
See?

maybe not allllllll but perhaps a weeee bit

 

[Cynthia12]

Aww, cutest baby ever!

 

[Cynthia12]

Time has gone by, Chewbaca surely has a family..this has to be one of them as a baby.