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

[Hurley]

My Iowa Blues eggs arrived! Woop!

Off to unpack.

Gonna be a good hatch.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Here are the instructions on how to .....

http://ucanr.org/freepubs/docs/8120.pdf

http://www.poultryhelp.com/uc-pfs22.html

 

[NoseyChickens]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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NC - I candled the White AM eggs I got from you, and only one out of 6 wasn't fertile!! I think another one died, but left it end for now. The other 3 are looking good!!

I hope all the rest hatch!​

 

[yotetrapper]

I have been driving myself stark raving crazy trying to figure out this timing thing. I have eggs that should go in today, eggs (including high dollar ones) that should go in tomorrow, and eggs that should go in Saturday. All shipped ones. Now, I could set some tomorrow, and some Saturday, but in the end, I would end up having to hatch in my still air which I ain't too keen on.

So, I guess maybe I'll have to wait and set them all on Saturday?? Assuming my batches that were shipped on Monday were collected over the weekend, that would make them 7-8 days old at hatch. Does that have much of an affect on viability?

Angela <-----losing sleep over this dilemma

 

[daisychick]

My eggs are here!

7 Wheaten Marans and 12 BBS Marans from Bargain.
Mixed dozen including 6 Split Lav Ameraucanas from Muggsmagee.
I still have 7-8 coming from Wynette.

 

[tazcat70]

Look at all the beautiful eggs!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

Eggs came in the mail!!!!!!!

Renee - arrived perfectly!
Mike - one was smooshed....

slimy bubblewrap - luckily the bubblewrap kept it from getting on all the other eggs - just coated the wrapping on them all with a nice slime

Now heading to the farm to see what I can snitch from there to incubate!

 

[BHep]

Here is some cutiness..........


chicks I hatched over the weekend. Bantam and Silkie mixes.

Ducks I got from Metzers yesterday...

 

[gryeyes]

Well, I'm up. My sleep patterns have been really off, lately. I like the sound of roosters, so they don't wake me up at all. Well, maybe the early crowing just seems normal, and when the Rooster Chorus of fully awake and ranging roosters is what woke me up this late morning. (Hey, I've been up about 2 hours now...)

Emptied and refilled the kiddie pool for the ducks, filled about a gazillion waterers, topped off the feeders, and decided I am gonna put the eldest of the brooding chicks currently in the bathroom outside later after I rest up some. I have to clean out the grow-out coop I've selected for them, first. Some of the ladies have been using it to lay eggs, but nobody has slept in it for a couple of weeks. The TJ's chicks grew out in it, but two weeks after I let them join the flock, they stopped returning to it at night, having found other buddies with which to roost in other coops. Chickens sure are interesting.

Fritzie (and I) lost her BFF, Yul, during the last BIG rainstorm and has been very lonely. (I don't know what happened to Yul, but found him dead in one of the many puddles. He had been one of the coccidia sufferers but recovered, so maybe he was still suffering from low resistance to ... anything.... .) She scoots around and talks to me, but doesn't hang with any of the other chickens.

I have to clean ALL of the incubators today. Taking a drive in the late afternoon to pick up some of Jeremy's eggs. BEAUTIFUL day for the drive to the East Bay!

 

[Rathbone]

gryeyes - nice post. I feel kinda like I am walking alongside you as you go through your day. Sounds busy but peaceful.