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

[Mahonri]

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NO ! ! ! It is tooooo early to candle! You should wait! What if you made a mistake????

Like I said, it will be day 10 on Tuesday and I will know for certain, but the 13 I removed were total non developers. Some were literally scrambled.... no air sac and broken yolks.

And like I said, I candled less than half. I left one of the SLW that I'm fairly certain is a gonner, just to be safe.

The Icelandics that I did candle were easy to see development in. Nice developed eyes, lots of viens. Cool.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

If you're running a contest and need to clarify your contest or have me add/remove/edit something about it... PM me! Thanks.

Mahonri's 2nd Annual BYC Easter Hatch Contests:

1. Best Hatch Rate Contest: CONTEST CLOSED
For this contest during this hatch, participants will be hatching a minimum of 20 eggs. Post how many you will have cooking by Monday 04 April 2011 and then don't go back and edit your post where you tell us how many eggs you start with. When the hatch is over, you'll take a pic and post it to show us how many you actually got... it would be nice if we could count them.
In the event of a tie, the one who hatches the most chicks wins.
Prize: 6 month GFM sponsored by BYC/Nifty!

2. Cutest Chick Picture:
Picture must be a chick born for this Easter hatch. Pic will need to be taken and posted by or before 11:59PM EST on April 26th... We'll be asking folks in the hatch as well as some moderators to help me judge if they are willing. There will be 1st and 2nd place awards given
Prizes: First and second place receive 6 month GFM sponsored by BYC/Nifty!

3. Guess for # of chicks Mahonri hatches: CONTEST CLOSED
Guesses need to be made before 11:59:59PM EST on April 6th. The guesses will be posted on post 1 somewhere beside the hatch participant's name.
In order to help break a tie, you'll also need to guess the breeds of the first three chicks out. If you want to know what breeds are in Mahonri's bator read the thread!
Guesses need to be submitted via LareePQG's spreadsheet located at:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/vie...RlZi05NWMxLTQ2MjgtOGM5MS1hYTAyZTQxN2QyYjY&ifq
To see everyone's responses, the link is located at:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ai7KIISf0iW0dDQwZVBvdmZVNmRtZ3NsN2RWWlpvRUE&hl=en#gid=0
Prize: 6 month GFM sponsored by Mahonri

4. Best Overall Hatch Participant:
This will be determined by vote of participants in a PM to Mahonri. Votes will start on April 25th and end on April 27th.
Prize: 6 month GFM sponsored by BYC/Nifty!

5. "Revolutionmammas" First Chick Contest:
For the first chick hatched BEFORE the target time. Contestants must show picture of chick hatching with proof of time.
Prize: 25$ gift certificate towards revolutionmammas bird or egg auction

6. Hard Luck Let's Give 'em Another Chance:
For the person with the poorest hatch rate on 25 April 2011 at 11:59:59 PM.
Prizes:
Hatching eggs:
CrystalCreek: 6 eggs includes shipping
Wolftracks: 6 eggs (BCM, OEs, or EEs) includes shipping
LaMike: 6 eggs (lavs, delaware, appenzeller, dominique, frizzle or silkie) includes shipping
Hurley: 6 eggs (B/B/S Cuckoo Olive Egger F1s eggs or B/B/S CM) includes shipping

7. Tazcat70's Total Number of Eggs Hatched CONTEST CLOSED
Private Message your guess for the total number of Easter Hatch hatchlings as reported out on the close of the hatch which is 25 April 2011 at 11:59:59 PM. Your PM must be sent by 8 PM Western Time on Thursday 7 April 2011.
View submissions at: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6096536#p6096536
Prize: Chicken Lawn Art courtesy of Gryeyes

8. Marathonmultiplesmom's Broody Hatch Contest
Private Message marathonmultiplesmom if you are using a broody for any part of this hatch and want to be included in this contest. Everyone who hatches at least one chick under their broody by close of hatch (25 April 2011 at 115:9:95 PM) is eligible. Post a picture of your broody with her chick(s) on this thread (also PM the sponsor with your post number) by close of hatch and marathonmultiplesmom will randomly draw one person to win!
Prize: choice of any 3 bars of handmade soap from marathonmultiplesmom's store. The link to the store is: www.edentiafarms.etsy.com

9. Chooks Chick Flapper Contest:
This contest will go the whole time, enter at will. It's hard to get those shots! The poll will all entrants will be posted at lockdown and it can be our 'Confinement Distraction' to keep us from getting our faces glued to the windows of our incubators...as if!!
We'll tally the votes on Easter!
View submissions here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=14596-flapper-contest
Prize: 6 eggs plus shipping of paint ameraucana project

10. Funniest Picture Contest: WEEK ONE CONTEST CONTEST CLOSED
Sponsored by Nosey Chickens. Post your submission for the funniest chicken picture on this thread. Photos must be originals and not photoshopped or altered. Nosey Chickens will move them over to the link below. Submissions must be posted by 11:59:59 on 8 April 2011. The winner will be announced 9 April 2011.
To view the submissions, go here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6106355#p6106355
Prize: One piece of jewelry, made by NoseyChickens. Please visit her Etsy store for options. You may chose 1 item of those listed for sale at the time the winner is announced. There is always a possibility that some of them may sell between now and then. So please notify NoseyChickens of your choice ASAP so she can take it off the site. The winner may also choose a custom piece made with feathers from their own flock. AT LEAST 5 feathers will need to be mailed and she will design a piece using them. (White feathers DO NOT show up well). If you win and you chose a custom piece PM NoseyChickens to work out the details. Store is located at:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/feathersontheground

11. TheBirdguy's Best Incubator Tetris Stacking Contest WEEK ONE CONTEST
Sponsored by TheBirdguy. Pictures must be of your incubator stacking prowess for this hatch. Photos need to be posted by April 9th at noon MST. PM thebirdguy if you have submitted an entry but do not see it listed on the page below.
You can see the entrants here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=72494-easter-tetris-contest
Prize: a digital copy of Standard Perfection Poultry Book by C.C. Shoemaker copyright 1902

12. SuperChemicalGirl's Caption That Photo Contest WEEK ONE-ISH CONTEST
SCG will post a photo on this thread for you to use your wit/humor to caption, add thought bubbles or an explanation of the situation (like a "Far Side" cartoon). You may photoshop the picture but the original content of the photo must remain the same. Keep it PG, folks, but make us laugh! Submissions similar to previously submitted entries will not be accepted. Photo (of 3 white leghorns on the roost) was posted on 3 April 2011 see post number 3504. Your submissions must be posted on this thread by 11:59:59 PM EST 9 April 2011 to allow time for judging.
You can see the entrants here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=46869-easter-hatch-caption-contest
Prize: Purina Feed Coupon for 15$ off a purchase of 6 items. Eligible products include 50 lb bags of Layena, Start & Grow (medicated or not) or Flockraiser, or 25 lb FlockBlocks. Coupon expires 12.31.11

13. Dsqard's Strangest Place Chickens Lay Contest: WEEK TWO CONTEST
Post your pictures of the strangest location you have ever had a chicken lay an egg.
Prize: Plush Chicken

14. Gryeyes License Plate Contest WEEK THREE CONTEST
She has a personalized license plate and loves to figure out others "vanity" plates. Using a combination of up to 7 numbers and letters, come up with a personalized chicken related license plate. "Pictures" of plates will earn extra (subjective) points. Feel free to use the License Plate generator at: http://www.acme.com/licensemaker/
Judges will pick the one they like the best for the winner!
Prize: Solar Lawn Art

15. Rooster Crowing Contest: WEEK THREE CONTEST
Sponsored by Gryeyes. Post your picture of a rooster crowing. Note: Winner of the last Rooster Crowing Contest (NY Hatch) must come up with a different photo (if participating this time) but other NYD Hatch entries can be re-submitted for everybody's enjoyment and competition. This photo must be a REAL rooster, no photoshopping, no images taken from commercial and/or professional sites, can belong to the entrant OR a friend, family member or other live person who gives you permission to use the photo. We want BYC roosters, y'hear? If you don't have a rooster, ask a friend or neighbor WITH a rooster if you can take pictures ... Or if they have a bona-fide rooster crowing photo to lend you. Roosters may be living or memorialized.
Prize: a solar-powered Rooster yard ornament. Really cute in a cheesy sort of way. (After all, real roosters don't glow at night... [unless they're in Japan --SCG])

16. Best Hen/Pullet Stinkeye WEEK THREE CONTEST
Sponsored by Hurley
See the entrants here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=51390-best-pullethen-stinkeye-pics
Prize: The APA 2010 Standards of Perfection


**A special thank you to everyone who is running a contest and/or offered a prize**

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Good morning, campers! We've made it to day 6!

The contest for total number of eggs hatched has officially closed. Thanks, Tazcat for keeping up with the numbers!

For a limited time, we're still accepting submissions for funniest chicken picture & the caption contest.

Unsure what any contest is about? You should find the rules in the above post and links to the submissions.

 

[dsqard]

Good morning all!

Got to watch it snowing yesterday evening. Would have been pretty if it wasn't April! We get to go do our taxes today. YAY!

I am waiting until tomorrow to candle my turkey eggs again. I am not going to candle any of CC's eggs until Tuesday. It's just too hard to see development early in the darker shells for me. Kelly (Rathbone) I have your submission for funniest place a chicken lays but I haven't started the page yet. Don't worry though, I will put it on the page when I start it. I have got to get a flapper picture in and see if I can get a funny picture but the weather is supposed to be crappy again today (I am affectionately calling this state Sucktah, but only in the nicest way

) so I probably won't get a funny one in time. I might have to cruise some of my older pics later this afternoon, I think I might have one.

 

[RareBreedFancier]

Eek! I've been meaning to get out and try to get a good funny pic and flapping pics and haven't done it.

I'll enter this one of my SG Dorking roo as my funny pic... "It's just a flesh wound!"

Please note, no roosters were harmed in the making of this picture.

 

[PepsNick]

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There are 4 little clips in there to clip it to the top of the plastic liner to cover the water trays...

That's what I thought. I'm out of town, and coming back today, but a friend of mine wanted to come open it and of course his question got me all worried. LOL

I'm setting eggs tonight!

 

[babymakes6]

I have a Silkie in my bator!

It is either blue or splash-too wet to tell yet. I have another Silkie pipped, as well as one of my Orps. Sorry to hear about everyone's egg problems! Warden-that is terrible! Glad you're getting your money back at least!

 

[LarryPQ]

Woke up to another 7 peepers in the incubator.

So that makes 11 out of 12 eggs hatched, with one still unzipping.

Of the 12 eggs, 1 was an egg the DH accidentially pulled from under the super-broody.

The other 11 eggs are ALL SHIPPED EGGS. So if this last chick unzips, I will have a 100% hatch rate from shipped eggs.



....I should probably find out exactly what Cammy sent me. LOL!!

 

[LarryPQ]

On a sad note: I had to have the DH cull two of my favorite roosters yesterday---they were super-crowers and I couldn't find them homes. Since I am in the middle of the city, I didn't want to push my luck.



And now, it is 5 AM, the chickens have noticed the lights are on in the house, and I have new crower trying out his paper-towel-roll-bugle for the first time. I am pretty sure it the BWA I hatched for Mahonri during the New Year's hatch.

He sounds so pathetic.

...every time he "Buuurp burthhh beeooowoooothhhhppppbbbbbrtttt"s, the turkey goodilieegoogiliees, telling him to shut up.

 

[daisychick]

Good Morning Easter Hatchers!

It is time for the daily countdown.

We have made it 6 days and we have 15 days to go