7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[ronott1]

Upon reflection, my eggs are going to hatch too early to win anything. Guess I'm out this year. Good luck!

You can still win the other contests--Random post and the new ginger bread contest too--There will be more.

@generaldsherman Stick around!

 

[ronott1]

she is a bantam tiny too.she only doesn't have the tiff on top her head

You likely have a bantam EE or something similar that is a blue egg laying bantam.

 

[rj122]

I want to join the 12/11 hatch!! First time for me. I have a Brahma Rooster and hens in one coop and American Rooster and hens in another coop. I will be collecting eggs as we get closer! Making a diy incubator.

 

[BullChick]

It's tiiime!!

 

[prizepete]

Ok I really need to actually figure out what day I am setting, because I will be getting serama hatching eggs from a friend and then i will be ordering eggs. since there will probably be shipped eggs in the bunch, I want at least 4-5 chicks out of a dozen that i can fit in my incubator. I would love to have enough to keep a few hens and a cockerel and sell the rest. But i don't know. there will be frizzle eggs in the bunch, I will have to make sure that I ask her to mark the eggs that come from the pen with the frizzle

 

[RoodyRodchester]

Just set my first hatch of duck eggs! Not sure what kind since my SIL ducks are all laying in the same nest box. Guess I'll be surprised!

 

[ronott1]

Contests have been added!

Contests:

1. Best Hatch RateFirst
   Prize: Hatching eggs from @RavynFallen or drawing from @Peep-Chicken
   Second Prize: BYC 2015 Calendar
   
   
   participants will need to be setting a minimum of 6 eggs​
   .​
   ​
   These can be under broodies or in your incubators. Send @ronott1 a pm letting him know how many you will have cooking. We'll need that info​
   ​
   by the 3rd of Jan at the latest​
   ​
   to be included in the contest. When the hatch is over,​
   ​
   you'll take a pic and post it to show us how many​
   ​
   you actually hatched.​
   The picture must be of sufficient quality to count all the chicks.​
   ​
   In the event of a tie, the one who hatches the most chicks wins.​
   
   
2. First of any poultry fully hatched (local time) on New Year's Day (Picture required to be posted​
   immediately after hatching).
   Prize: TBD​
3. Random post contest 1
   Prize: TBD
   
   Open to hatch a long members except Hatch a long administrators. A post number has been selected. The first hatch a long member to post on or after the number is the winner! A backup post number has been selected to be awarded if the winner declines the prize.
   
4. Longest Distance Hatched Egg:
   In order to enter the contest folks with shipped eggs need to submit their city/state and the egg shipper's city/state (via PM preferred for privacy reasons) to calculate distance. A viable chick produced by the longest distance will win a book of postage stamps to help defray the shipping costs.
   
5. 
   Worst Hatch Rate:
   Eggs set vs. eggs hatched. Winner will receive a chicken-themed consolation prize.
   (Not encouraging anyone to try to win this one, but zero hatches sometimes happen....)

 

[Cynthia12]

Hi!

I'm new, and I'm TOTALLY not familiar with the New Years Hatch along. But I think I would love to be a part of this. I'm on page 12 trying to catch up.

One question: can I set the eggs as a staggered hatch? I have my own chicken eggs, but I've got to get the first eggs going because they're not going to be viable if I don't get them on. (I may be too late already for the oldest...but I like living on the edge!)

If I can't...I'd just do the December hatch-a-long. I've already spoke on that thread...lol!

I would have mostly EE eggs and probably a few old English Bantam eggs.

(Unless other new pullets start laying. SO exciting!!)

 

[Cynthia12]

Thirteen hours, four minutes and twenty-seven seconds until it's time to set the duck eggs.

 

[prizepete]

Contests have been added!

Contests:

1. Best Hatch RateFirst
   Prize: Hatching eggs from @RavynFallen or drawing from @Peep-Chicken
   Second Prize: BYC 2015 Calendar
   
   
   participants will need to be setting a minimum of 6 eggs​
   .​
   ​
   These can be under broodies or in your incubators. Send @ronott1 a pm letting him know how many you will have cooking. We'll need that info​
   ​
   by the 3rd of Jan at the latest​
   ​
   to be included in the contest. When the hatch is over,​
   ​
   you'll take a pic and post it to show us how many​
   ​
   you actually hatched.​
   The picture must be of sufficient quality to count all the chicks.​
   ​
   In the event of a tie, the one who hatches the most chicks wins.​
   
   
2. First of any poultry fully hatched (local time) on New Year's Day (Picture required to be posted​
   immediately after hatching).
   Prize: TBD​
3. Random post contest 1
   Prize: TBD
   
   Open to hatch a long members except Hatch a long administrators. A post number has been selected. The first hatch a long member to post on or after the number is the winner! A backup post number has been selected to be awarded if the winner declines the prize.
   
4. Longest Distance Hatched Egg:
   In order to enter the contest folks with shipped eggs need to submit their city/state and the egg shipper's city/state (via PM preferred for privacy reasons) to calculate distance. A viable chick produced by the longest distance will win a book of postage stamps to help defray the shipping costs.
   
5. 
   Worst Hatch Rate:
   Eggs set vs. eggs hatched. Winner will receive a chicken-themed consolation prize.
   (Not encouraging anyone to try to win this one, but zero hatches sometimes happen....)

Well I don't know about anyone, but if I win the eggs I want in ebay, But they are in rhoad island, and I am in CA