Mahonri's 2nd Annual BYC EASTER HATCH. Post pics of your chicks!

[Noncentzter]

I'm in too! Hatching my own coop eggs: EEs and BWAmeraucanas.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

How fun!

 

[Rathbone]

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Glad you are sitting in with us.

 

[cluckcluck42]

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Saw this suggestion one time. Go out to the coop with an empty egg carton in one hand and an empty soup pot in the other and "explain" to the girls that one way or the other you are having chicken for dinner!

I think I might just be desperate enough to try this! lmao.

 

[SteveH]

God willing , I'm in .
The blizzard is over , but my road is still snowed in . I've got eggs coming [ for setting this week ] , sent Monday , and subzero temps tonight . I hope and pray that wherever they're sitting or traveling , its inside and heated .

 

[dsqard]

SteveH you gotta be in. You help keep Mahonri whispers quietly so he won't hear sane!

 

[Hurley]

I'm in, even if it's just my own eggs!

I tried to get lavender Ameraucanas from Crystal Creek for this hatch, too, but someone beat me to it! S'all right, I'll get some for a different hatch.

I would be happy to offer a dozen (plus) eggs from my Marans flock as a prize, maybe a consolation prize like the NYD hatch for someone whose eggs don't hatch?

So far from the group I've hatched out blue, splash, and cuckoo chicks. It's 6 blue hens (2 of which look birchen or silver?) in with a very contrasty blue cuckoo male and a light silver/birchen? cuckoo blue rooster. Babies could be any mix of the blue/cuckoo and whatever that extra gene is, silver or birchen. Egg color varies from lighter brown with large dark speckles to more evenly colored dark eggs. Will send the darkest eggs available at the time. Also happy to mix in some olive eggers out of Marans x Ameraucana (BBS/cuckoo/silver/birchen genes possible).

For the hatch, hoping to have Marans (as above) and hopefully some olive egger chicks if my 3 Ameraucana pullets kick in by then.

....plus whatever I may come across for shipped eggs that I can't resist.

So excited, got fans installed in the styrofoam incubators, so temps are way more stable. My recent hatching rates this last time were greatly improved.

 

[Granny Hoffman]

I'm in, not sure what I'll be setting. Maybe my marans that hatched in November will be laying by then. I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed.

 

[dsqard]

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Hey ya gotta jump when the iron is hot!

 

[Hurley]

Just hatched these cuties this week, though!

Bantam Lavender Ameraucanas