Chicks for Christmas ! Submit your holiday chick pictures contest on!

[Melissa Rose]

I just candled the beautiful orpington eggs that Nellie sent

It's only day 4 but since the post office held them hostage for 6 days

I had to peek

All 5 of the lemon cuckoo orpington eggs are totally good

as well as the lavs

and the blues are looking strong too

What a great surprise

 

[billiejo21]

Ok...so only 4 of my brahmas made it to lockdown...sort of sad, but happy some of them made it anyways!!!

I'm going to update my guess - Christmas eve 189, Christmas day 276

Hope everybody has a successful hatch!!!! Can't wait to see pic of the winner's babies (and everybody else's as well!!)

 

[CapricornFarm]

Is everyone locked down, the time is drawing near!

:cd Deb

 

[Melissa Rose]

Locked and loaded

With humidity that is

I can almost hear the sleigh bells now

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Tomorrow is lockdown here ....

 

[CapricornFarm]

Don't forget to post recipes for the contest. Remember, we are also going to have a contest with cute chick pictures, winner gets a BYC calendar. :jumepy

 

[crazyperson]

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OMG Shiela!!! This really DOES work, AND I'm a picky one, because I used to have a candy store. I'm on a major roll. I made chocolate fudge with dark choc chips, made a regular batch of chocolate and split it up and added shredded coconut to one and walnuts to the other. Then I made the chocolate icing with reese's peanut butter chips and added a couple globs of skippy to it. That was the best one!!!

It works best, if you melt the icing first, and when it starts to thin out, add the chips. YUMMMMM!!! Just a note to those of you that aren't used to melting chocoate...If you can't touch the bottom of the double boiler with your bare fingers, it's TOO HOT. Chocolate melts at a really low temp, and will actually get hard on you again and not melt, if it's too hot.

THANKS SO MUCH SHEILA!!! This is GREAT!!!

NOW, I just have to stay out of it!!!

 

[kizanne]

We have LOCKDOWN!!!!!!

Being new I have read all the conflicting opinions and ways. So I decided on dry incubation 35% humidity / 65-70% humidity, lockdown day 18 hatch in a egg carton with the bottoms cut out.

I candled today (even though I said I wouldn't) I saw no movement but the eggs all seemed filled except the air pocket at the top. A couple of the air pockets had a small hump of a shadow which I'm hoping is a beak breaking into the air pocket. Last time I candled a couple they had a jelly space on the bottom and those are gone. I sure hope it is all good.

Santa bring me some chickies.

 

[MamaMarcy]

My 3 buckeye mix eggs have all PIP'd internally as of today...as has one of my muscovy eggs (early)


Yay hatchlings!!!

 

[kizanne]

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how can you tell internal pipping?