4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

We are getting a new barn built, and yesterday they poured down the concrete. I have these 7 chickens who cant get enough of people, and I always notice them out with the barn builders.
Well today when i went out to see it all, i noticed the concrete had a bunch of chicken foot prints all over it.

When they noticed me laughing, they came over and said the chickens were out there having a blast in it.

Silly chickens!!

~ Aspen

 

[gabrielle1976]

Hopefully I wont get introuble by posting this here but eveyone is here these days lol , I was wondering if any of you people that seem to know what your doing tinkering with things would like my old beat up lg with fan , maybe you mechanically inclined can get it to run or maybe you can use the fan and or heating element for a home made bator or something. For the life of me I cant find the replacement parts for it , it needs the fan replaced or maybe just tightend back on its missing one red plug and the windows while there are loose, and the bottom pan? is pretty beat up, I know hovabator offers replacement parts but I cant find anything but the fan kit for sale for this one. It would be free just pay shipping if you want to try to save it or use it for parts ect. Im done tryingt to get it to work for me , I do hatch in it it works enough for that I usually get about 35-45% I almost always use shipped eggs cuase we dont have many local people that have fertel eggs. Just let me know .
Its my dream to get a brinsea 20 advance some day I should make up a incubator saveings jar lol , Ill have to tell my cat no more 400 doller vet bills and my son no haveing to have a toy and five kinds of snacks every single time we go out of the house but I bet I could have one by next years new years day hatchalong woudnt that be an awsome thing to save for , How many other people would like a new bator maybe we should all make a nyd hatchalong resaloution to save up for our dream bator by next years NYD hatchalong that would be so much fun and might keep me on the strait and narrow if I had buddies to save with

 

[corancher]

Thanks Tadpole, we love the geese and how friendly they are. Smart too, they learn routines and ours understand basic commands. (move out, get to bed, no)

MIne wait every evening outside their pens until I walk down and tell them ok guys get to your pens. They all then get up and go into their different pens. It's funny because they always wait and never go into the pens until I tell them to.

 

[gabrielle1976]

MIne wait every evening outside their pens until I walk down and tell them ok guys get to your pens. They all then get up and go into their different pens. It's funny because they always wait and never go into the pens until I tell them to.

Aww thats so sweet , lol I have inside chickens and there always giveing me they eye when they want out , like right now but I usually have them out when My son is home so he can chase them down when they run amuck , for some reason they like to hang out in the kitchen by the stove and by the foot of my bed in my room , I cant wait till there diapers get here its full time job following behind chickens and cleaning up chicken pooh Im so glad that mine are tiny little seramas the idea of monsterous jersy giant or orpinton pooh is the stuff of night mares.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Now for contest news!
Here is the status of the contests today ! To find out more about these
contests please go to the link of the first page. Week one constest
are now OPEN! . Look at the contest page to see the full list of
incredible
prizes including GREENFIRE FARMS GIFT CERTIFICATES BRINSEA INCUBATORS
, BIG OL BIRD POULTRY SUPPLEMENT AND MANY BYC INDIVIDUALS...THANK YOU
ALL!.
SEE THE THREADS IN VARIOUS FORUMS FOR THE SPONSORED CONTESTS!

TOTAL NUMBER OF EGGS SET! Prize brinsea incubator. Open to all of
BYC. It has its own thread now! Ends this evening THURSDAY.

AN OPPURTUNE TIME! first prize has been awarded, we are onto prize 2!
It could come at any time post people POST!! The next prize is
Mystery eggs by mnstricer! you want those eggs they are as good as all
the advice shes been giving us here.

KYtinpusher has a Random poster award that could come at any time
too! we like random excitment! Prize is hatching eggs! hatching eggs
leads to more chickens. More chickens is good!

EGG ART CONTEST: Celtic Oaks farms is offering geese for the most
creative egg art. All eggs are welcome. I have seen some AMAZING egg
art from you people, post it on the thread before lockdown on the
28th.

BEST HATCH RATE, BEST SMALL HATCH RATE , and WORST HATCH RATE are
all open too. See thread for more details. The SPREADSHEETS for these will be open after all the eggs are posted to avoid too much confusion. Because you know, its confusing!

BEST BROODY HEN on the nest Photo! do you have a dertimined hen?
snap her in action this week and post! I have seen people talking about these hens, I want to see shots of the girls! I'm in broody withdrawals.

CELEBRITY CHICKEN LOOK ALIKE CONTEST . Open to all of BYC .
More contests open up every week, we are contest craazy.

No call duck contest yet! but keep your eyes peeled.

Friday is QUAIL DAY! They will be laying eggs for you just a little after valentines day. You can still join and put extra eggs in today and friday, so if you are hording a last few, stick them in.

Who do I PM about a contest?

These are the geese the hatching egg prize could come from: (will be arranged with the winner for when they want to receive and freshest eggs will be sent)
we have: whites, grey, blue, lavender, lilac, buff, saddleback and the laying season for us has just barely gotten under way. Eggs currently set are growing very well.

We cant wait to see the egg art in this contest, Thanks to all involved for letting us offer a selection of prizes on the contests too.



buff, Lilac, Lavender sebastopols



new saddleback gander (photo courtesy of his breeder CottageRose)

Shellie, your Sebbies are as lovely as ever.

Here are my silkie eggs that I set on 12/11 at 5:00 PM PST..(I was at work at 12:00)

The eggs were purchased and shipped to me from Catdance Silkes. They all arrived intact and were beautifully wrapped. This is my first time incubating shipped eggs so not sure what to expect but I am
hoping for a great hatch %.

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Silkies!!!

~ Aspen

 

[gabrielle1976]

a chicken pic, then a celebrity pic that looks like your chicken, so both

Thank you for the clerification

 

[cochins1088]

Now for contest news!
Here is the status of the contests today ! To find out more about these
contests please go to the link of the first page. Week one constest
are now OPEN! . Look at the contest page to see the full list of
incredible


BEST BROODY HEN on the nest Photo! do you have a dertimined hen?
snap her in action this week and post! I have seen people talking about these hens, I want to see shots of the girls! I'm in broody withdrawals.

I know there is a lot of confusion, but does anyone know where we should post the pictures of broody hens?

Also, I'd better get drawing on eggs for the egg art contest because CelticOaksFarm's geese are absolutely goregous!

Thanks!

 

[Coffeemama7]

I did, everybody is fine

Gives me a new image of "cement shoes" lol

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Aww thats so sweet , lol I have inside chickens and there always giveing me they eye when they want out , like right now but I usually have them out when My son is home so he can chase them down when they run amuck , for some reason they like to hang out in the kitchen by the stove and by the foot of my bed in my room , I cant wait till there diapers get here its full time job following behind chickens and cleaning up chicken pooh Im so glad that mine are tiny little seramas the idea of monsterous jersy giant or orpinton pooh is the stuff of night mares.

Where are the pictures of your cute indoor Seramas? I used to have a house Silkie..until he crowed and started taking off his diaper.

I'm dying to bring my Sebbies inside!

~ Aspen

 

[Aschenfire]

Worrying about a temp spike in the bator?

Here is NEXT WEEK'S "Mayan" WEATHER FORECAST...

LOL! I'll be having a "we survived the Apocalypse" party that day