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

[daxigait]

@ronott140 have hatched already. The last ten have not we went into lockdown Monday night so they are running out of time

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 40 have hatched already. The last ten have not we went into lockdown Monday night so they are running out of time

Oh, time is definitely running out. Are there any pipped?

If they were all the same breed and line then the last 10 may be quitters.

40 is a good hatch though.

 

[daxigait]

Oh, time is definitely running out. Are there any pipped?

If they were all the same breed and line then the last 10 may be quitters.

40 is a good hatch though.

I don't know on the pips as I am hatching on shares and she has the Bator. No they are different breeds three types of hens and two roos so it is a pot luck. She through out two early today. Big fancy Bator, but I wished she did not open it.

 

[shahtir101]

@silly4buttons and @Peep_Show
I'm sorry your family is treating you like that. It is a shame.
@bamadude I am so sorry about your chickens! That must be heartbreaking!! Luckily there are lots of people on BYC that are willing to help. I would be willing to but, my birds aren't laying and I don't know if you would want seramas. How are you? What is happening?

 

[Saris]

@bamadude

That sucks so bad, I hope you and your family are safe!

 

[bamadude]

We are fine. Thanks everyone for the prayers. I lost some chickens. Some people lost everything.

 

[BullChick]

I'm glad you are okay at least.

 

[rossfam06]

We are fine. Thanks everyone for the prayers. I lost some chickens. Some people lost everything.

Glad to hear you guys are okay. Sad to hear you lost some chooks, and other lost everythin.

 

[silly4buttons]

Oh, that's not nice at all of them.  But, honestly, death and/or money does bring out the worst in folks.

Family.... Sigh.    Splashing the tears in my eggnog as family traditions have me wanting to be near what's left of my relatives...and my sister treats me like a second-class citizen.  I phoned her up yesterday to tell her I was making the family recipes and to find out which of the Nor-Cal folks were going to be at her house the next day for dinner and to see if the packages made it and just, well, I wanted some family connection.  I got a "Gotta go.  I need to clean the house but we're playing some new games and we're learning the rules.  Merry Christmas."  CLICK.    What??   Any of her friends she might've spared a few minutes.  Not even a "Let's chat tomorrow or later"  But "Merry Christmas" CLICK??     Nice to know where I rate....  But, then, she has flown her flags before.   The sad thing is is that she's my closest living kin.  Folks gone.  No kids of my own.   And someday I'll be gone or she'll be gone and this'll seem so, what, trivial.  Oh, well.   Life goes on and begs forward looking. 

Anyway, I realize I'm whining.  Sorry about that.  Maybe it IS the eggnog.

My therapist husband has pointed out that if it's time to be maudlin, Christmas is a good time to do it and there's lots of company.   It can be a happy time, or a poignant time, or a sad time.  A few more eggnogs and I won't care and will entertain visions of sugar plums dancing in my head.


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Anybody making New Year's resolutions?   
What are they?

It's fine sometimes it's good to rant It's sad but my friend mike keeps telling me what goes around comes around I truly believe that. My mom wasn't the nice person by any means after my dad died I was living with them at the time with my daughter and she decided to move out she didn't tell me one day people came in and started moving her stuff out and told me the rent was payed for the month bye . Years later when she need help my sisters and brother would call me so me and my daughter would go. I keep telling them she needed to go in a nursing home but no one listen I was the stupid sister that didn't know anything but when I work before I got sick I cleaned for elderly and would take them to do there errands I knew the signs I was there16 years

 

[silly4buttons]

It is times like this that make me appreciate my chickens!

They are great therapy.

I am sorry your family is treating you like that.

i tell everyone that my chickens are my therapy They look at me like I am crazy but i tell them if you are having a very bad day come and spend sometime with them you will leave feeling much better