In CELEBRATION OF MY FIVE YEARS here on BYC....

[Mahonri]

In CELEBRATION OF MY FIVE YEARS HERE ON BYC......I'm going into "lockdown" tomorrow and hatching baby chicks on Saturday.

It's been a wild ride. Today is not only my fifth anniversary here, it is the Fourth Anniversary of kathyinmo. We joined on the same day, one year apart.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Keep us posted on your hatch. Congrats on the anniversary!

 

[Mahonri]

I'll post pics of the bator after I candle tomorrow and then pics of the chicks when I'm done!

 

[Mahonri]

Chicks that were due Saturday at noon, started pipping this morning. 1st one (an Aloha) hatched at 6:30AM. Two more Aloha's were pipped. None of Tab's shipped eggs had pipped. My wife thought the first one was dead... it was just resting. Too bad I can't just sit and stare at the incubator.

I'm at the office.... a construction fellow is here tearing out the old Formica and putting in new Corian countertops with a Corian sink in my sterilization/x-ray lab. He says it will only take 3 hours.. He had all of the old torn out in about 30 minutes. Amazing. I may get the plumbers here early to hook everything back up. That would be sweet, then I'm cleaning coops and mowing lawns as I doubt my two teenagers will ever get to it. I've also got to call Pratt's and see if I can come sell them some two month old roos. One that looks like an American Game has a pathetic little crow and he wakes me up before the crack of dawn every morning. If any of you AZ folks want roos, PM me I'd rather give them away to you folks. I have some Silver Laced Cochins, some Australorps, a Buff Orpington a Partridge Rock, a Giant Partridge Cochin and some other game looking roos...

 

[Mahonri]

Got 20 chicks to hatch. Tab just dropped by and picked up 5. So my broody gets to raise 15... just like her half sister is right now.

Pics to follow

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Chicks that were due Saturday at noon, started pipping this morning.

At noon? You don't really think you can predict it to the hour do you? I tell the folks at the fair that I can determine the day they should begin to hatch, but only the chicks themselves can determine the hour. And they are not very punctual! Congratulations on the hatch!