JIM!
How awesome that you are keeping the tradition alive!!! I can tell you, it is A LOT OF WORK!!
COOL! BYC's 4th Annual NYD HATCH A LONG!!!!
I won't be hatching and fussing over incubators this year, nor spending COUNTLESS HOURS with others going over participants etc...
BUT it's gonna be fun to watch!... and I know Nifty will be supportive!
Cuddos to all of you.
I just rehomed my last 'working' roo, two weeks ago. (Purebred Icelandic)... and wow, could he CROW !!
I have eggs in Mesa under a broody hen, I gave some eggs away for hatching to a wonderful couple in N. Phoenix and because my wife doesn't want to even SNIFF or see an incubator this year, I have a friend in Gilbert who will be taking about 36 eggs of the last of my possible fertile eggs to put in her incubator to hatch some for me. (They'll be due around Dec. 3rd) I have no idea how many will be fertile but if I get 3 pullets out of the batch I'll be happy. I just love my Icelandic girls and they lay almost as well as leghorns... just smaller eggs., but they are ALL eye candy. I will always be grateful to The Sheriff, Kathyinmo, Jodi, The Other Mary, Boston and all of the other helpers I had for the past three hatches and The Sheriff for introducing me to the marvelous Icelandic breed.
My HUGE extended family will be having a reunion this year here in Phoenix from the 27th through the 30th of December so I'll be super busy with all of them.. most of them will be traveling from Utah to AZ. You can understand why my wife doesn't want me running incubators all over the house!... but I think my younger kids and neighbors are going to be disappointed as it's been a tradition for the past three years.
Tell you what... if my Blue Wheaten roo starts getting frisky with the Ameraucana and EE girls before Dec. 11th at NOON, I may "sneak" my Brinsea into my bathroom, add some eggs, plug it in and join! Problem is... I only have one purebred girl laying every third day and my two Olive eggers are laying about 4 or 5 a week. So there wouldn't be many to hatch UNLESS I took a trip to Trader Joes as in years past....
I shouldn't have seen this thread..
But JIM, Congrats to you and your helpers for keeping this wonderful BYC Tradition alive!
Even if I don't incubate this year, I'll be watching and CHEERING ALL OF YOU ON!!!! (Hey... and I even won the first chick hatched after midnight one year.. remember
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GOOD LUCK!
How awesome that you are keeping the tradition alive!!! I can tell you, it is A LOT OF WORK!!
COOL! BYC's 4th Annual NYD HATCH A LONG!!!!
I won't be hatching and fussing over incubators this year, nor spending COUNTLESS HOURS with others going over participants etc...
BUT it's gonna be fun to watch!... and I know Nifty will be supportive!
Cuddos to all of you.
I just rehomed my last 'working' roo, two weeks ago. (Purebred Icelandic)... and wow, could he CROW !!
I have eggs in Mesa under a broody hen, I gave some eggs away for hatching to a wonderful couple in N. Phoenix and because my wife doesn't want to even SNIFF or see an incubator this year, I have a friend in Gilbert who will be taking about 36 eggs of the last of my possible fertile eggs to put in her incubator to hatch some for me. (They'll be due around Dec. 3rd) I have no idea how many will be fertile but if I get 3 pullets out of the batch I'll be happy. I just love my Icelandic girls and they lay almost as well as leghorns... just smaller eggs., but they are ALL eye candy. I will always be grateful to The Sheriff, Kathyinmo, Jodi, The Other Mary, Boston and all of the other helpers I had for the past three hatches and The Sheriff for introducing me to the marvelous Icelandic breed.
My HUGE extended family will be having a reunion this year here in Phoenix from the 27th through the 30th of December so I'll be super busy with all of them.. most of them will be traveling from Utah to AZ. You can understand why my wife doesn't want me running incubators all over the house!... but I think my younger kids and neighbors are going to be disappointed as it's been a tradition for the past three years.
Tell you what... if my Blue Wheaten roo starts getting frisky with the Ameraucana and EE girls before Dec. 11th at NOON, I may "sneak" my Brinsea into my bathroom, add some eggs, plug it in and join! Problem is... I only have one purebred girl laying every third day and my two Olive eggers are laying about 4 or 5 a week. So there wouldn't be many to hatch UNLESS I took a trip to Trader Joes as in years past....
I shouldn't have seen this thread..
But JIM, Congrats to you and your helpers for keeping this wonderful BYC Tradition alive!
Even if I don't incubate this year, I'll be watching and CHEERING ALL OF YOU ON!!!! (Hey... and I even won the first chick hatched after midnight one year.. remember
GOOD LUCK!
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