Announcement April Fools 2020 - Exciting New Chicken Breed: Quickens

[Meg-in-MT]

@Meg-in-MT maybe we need some Quickens?

Oh my goodness! Didn't know there was such a thing

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Thanks to everyone who participated in our 2020 April Fools fun!

Here are some of our past years' April Fool's threads:

2007 - April Fools - BYC Expanding - BackYardCows.com
2008 - April Fools - BYC Hacked!!
2009 - Thanks Everyone! Third Annual BYC April Fools Day Was LOTS of Fun!
2010 - April Fools - New BYC Store Product: The EggCell !!
2011 - NEW BYC Program & Partnership - Sell Your Extra Eggs! April Fools 2011
2012 - April Fools 2012 - New Forums / Sections - Exotic Backyard Animals
2013 - Big Announcement: BYC & Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Partnership - BeakBook - April fool's 2013
2014 - April Fools 2014 - BYC Sponsored Study: Increase Chicken Broodiness By Up To 48% With Aluminum Foil
2015 - April Fools 2015 - Announcement - BYC Staff / Moderator Term Limits & Retirement
2016 - April Fools 2016 - New Development: Chicken Feed That Changes Egg Shell Color!
2017 - Introducing: BackYard Robots - April Fools 2017
2018 - New BYC Cryptocurrency: ChicKoin
2019 - BYC Now Fully Self-Moderated

 

[chrissynemetz]

These have ALL been fabulous!
Who comes up with these ideas? Genius!!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

BYC moderators team-effort!!!

 

[chrissynemetz]

They deserve serious kudos! I look forward to this all year!

 

[BantyChooks]

Thanks, mods; got a good chuckle out of this one.

 

[SueT]

In addition to being fun for April Fools, because of the subject you chose, we learned that quail chicken hybrids have actually succeeded in the past. Well, the article (link given in post 29 p 3) says they got 10 chicks out of 2,000+ eggs and 4 survived. I don't know if you'd consider that very successful but I think it's remarkable. Eggs hatched at 19 days, midway between quail and chicken incubation time. The offspring had no combs as you see in the photo. Maybe with today's technology, though, creating this hybrid could become more feasible. So thanks for the inspiration! I still have hope for Quickens!!!!!!

 

[21hens-incharge]

This was a fun one!!

 

[muddy75]

It's not the cold and snow, it is the constant up and down swings.

sounds just like indiana!

 

[muddy75]

Did you know that it takes 8 Quail eggs to make 1 chicken egg.

depends on the size of the eggs.....i typically use 3-4 per 1 chicken egg (unless i’m using the button eggs....then it’s up to 12:1)