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

[daisychick]

Tricia: I am so glad your DD is ok. That is my biggest fear when I am walking with my kids in a parking lot. I am always telling them to watch for cars backing out. Those drivers can't see the little ones in their rearview mirror. And my kids think I am crazy and that it could never happen.

Now I have a story to tell them so maybe they will believe me and stick by me.

 

[ChestnutRidge]

I'm trying to set up my still air LG to be a hatcher basically following ChooksChicks' incubation guide. (Thank you, ChooksChicks!) I've got the bottom trays full of water & paper towels; paper towels covering the floor, some of which are absorbing water from below the grate; and a maybe 3" diameter plastic bowl with crumpled strips of dish towels half-filled with warm water (covered with a plastic strawberry basket to keep chicks out).

With that set-up, humidity is 50% according to my new digital hygrometer. It seems that I've been basically dry incubating; with the new hygrometer, it appears that humidity was probably in the 20% area for the first week and 30% for the second week. My developing eggs have been, on average, losing weight at a rate that will have them losing about 16% by hatch, which is a bit much.

Will 50% humidity during lockdown suffice, or do I need to come up with another source of humidity?

 

[tazcat70]

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Adorable!

 

[LarryPQ]

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I did?!!! NEAT! Thank you so very much!

Rachel (the turkey hen) will be so STOKED!!

 

[NoseyChickens]

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Thats the scary part. She isnt even that small. She's almost 11 years old and this was not a big car. She was walking right next to her 12 year old sister. Normally I make them walk next to or in front of me because I'm paranoid and ridiculously over protective. Now I don't feel so crazy for being that way.

 

[debilorrah]

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Thats the scary part. She isnt even that small. She's almost 11 years old and this was not a big car. She was walking right next to her 12 year old sister. Normally I make them walk next to or in front of me because I'm paranoid and ridiculously over protective. Now I don't feel so crazy for being that way.

You are not crazy - everyone else out there is!!!

 

[LarryPQ]

Good evening all!

I just got in from camping this weekend. We went to Apache Lake, not realizing it was the CA Roundup, and there were no camping spots to be had.

So, we bit the bullet, rented a pontoon boat, and camped in the real deserty-wilderness.

Since you all had to be without my sparkling personality ALL WEEKEND, I present you with a pretty picture:

Apache Lake,
April 16th, 2011
10:45 PM, full moon
15 second exposure with a point&shoot

 

[debilorrah]

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Beautiful!!!!! I need a tripod.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Wow! That's absolutely beautiful!!!

 

[LarryPQ]

I need a tripod too.

I used up the camera's batteries trying to get a better shot of that ridge. But I was on the boat, proping up the camera with tackle boxes.