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

[superchemicalgirl]

I feel like the living dead.

And since someone asked about contests... see below.

 

[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. How many posts will Mahonri have at 11:59:59PM (MST) on April 23rd?
Guesses need to be made by April 13th at bed time 10:00PM (MST)
Put your guesses here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHBZWDNLdGJBMXhLXzRCTGZBWHpRQkE6MQ&theme=0AX42CRMsmRFbUy0zODExOWI0Yi0yMTExLTRkMzYtOGUyZi1iNDZiMTFjZmMxY2Q&ifq
View guesses here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ai7KIISf0iW0dHBZWDNLdGJBMXhLXzRCTGZBWHpRQkE&hl=en#gid=0
Prize: 6 month GFM sponsored by Mahonri

5. 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!

6. "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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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
WINNER: THE WARDEN

12. TheBirdguy's Best Incubator Tetris Stacking Contest WEEK ONE CONTEST CONTEST CLOSED
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
WINNER: TAZCAT70

13. SuperChemicalGirl's Caption That Photo Contest WEEK ONE-ISH CONTEST CONTEST CLOSED
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
WINNER: GREENGODDESS

14. Dsqard's Strangest Place They Lay Contest: WEEK TWO CONTEST CONTEST CLOSED
Post your pictures of the strangest location you have ever had poultry (Turkey, guinea, pea, goose, etc) lay an egg. For this contest if you need to post more than one picture to prove that your hen laid in that spot, please do but let us know which picture to use. Also if you need to photoshop in a closeup with an arrow pointing out your girl, that's acceptable, too but please post the original as well. We will accept entries until 12 PM next Saturday (the 16th) The winner will be announced next Sunday the 17th. Please PM Dsqard the number of your post if your picture doesn't show up on the page. We are going to try to keep up and catch all the submissions, but might miss one here and there with how fast the thread is moving.
View the submissions here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=60251-strangest-place-chickens-lay
Prize: Plush Chicken
WINNER: LAREEPQG

15. 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

16. 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])

17. Best Hen/Pullet Stinkeye WEEK THREE CONTEST ALTHOUGH IS CURRENTLY OPEN DUE TO "CROSSWIRING"
Sponsored by Hurley
Rules: 1 photo per person. Quotes optional, if you want a quote with the photo let Hurley know. Post photo in this thread and/or PM Hurley with the photo, she will try to update daily but I has an unpredictable job so if it's no updated, assume she's still at work. Judging will be by a few people she knows who love chickens but don't have any affiliation with the people on the thread to try to make it as fair as possible.
Judging Friday, Winner announced by Saturday. Entries close 8am Friday morning, CST.
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**

 

[dsqard]

Congrats Mahonri on your early hatcher! I just candled my eggs and all 24 went into lockdown!

I wanted to go into lockdown this morning since my aircells are already pretty big. Keeping

for all of them to hatch! Laree thanks for the hint on the turkey poults since it all six eggs that lotsapaints sent to me have made it into lockdown. I saw movement in five of them and the sixth looks really good too. The only egg I am wondering about is one of CC's C pen eggs. I left it in but I think it might be a late quitter. It doesn't smell so I put it back in. DH cracks me up. He is even learning the chicken "lingo". He asked me yesterday if the eggs were in lockdown already!

Laree I am really hoping we get out of work early enough to get to the post office today so I can send out your prize. I just wanted to let you know that I haven't sent it yet since we got home the past couple of days after it was closed.

 

[NotAFarm]

Mahonri, Congrats on the "early bird" and hoping you get good news on your MRI this morning.

I got a new higher lumen flashlight and checked my eggs for the first time last night before bed. Tossed two from the Javas, one non-starter and one early quitter, and one Icelandic, early quitter. That means I will lockdown 24 eggs tonight, 8 Icelandic and 16 Java (a couple of these are crosses from a SLW pullet in with the two Java girls and roo). Being my first time incubating, I'm going to be a nervous wreck until this is over...good thing I have a lot on the calendar to do..now if the weather would just cooperate so I can get outside to do it!!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I have a funny story for y'all.

So I've been stalking a groundhog for the past 2 years... it's been eating my garden (despite fences). It's managed to be incredibly sly and doesn't ever offer me a good clear shot at it, or when it does it's on high alert and the second I get outside it bails.

So I bought traps last fall. The groundhog ignored them. I figured I'd be smarter this year, put them out early when there wasn't a lot of food available.

I saw the groundhog for the first time 2 days ago, so I put the traps out. Baited them with half an apple and a carrot each.

Got home from work yesterday in the afternoon to discover I had caught the neighbors cat. Released it, reset the trap.

Now here's the really important part of the story: I was on call last night - and boy, what a busy night. I couldn't have gotten more than 30 minutes of sleep. So I'm half dead, trying to eat some breakfast and drink some tea and boyfriend comes over and says, your trap is sprung but I can't tell if anything's in it (it was still mostly dark here). So I go outside and walk very slowly until I can see the trap (I usually catch skunks so caution is very important). I see the trap is really shaking and there's a tannish grey cat in there. The cat is super angry and flailing around in the cage so I can't get a really good look, but it did stop for a second and I got a decent look at its face and confirmed it was a cat. So I go up to the trap, without gloves, and put my hands in there and release the catch. The cat springs out of there and flies across my yard to the woods. I thought, hmm... weird looking cat, fairly large, didn't have a tail. End of (tired) thought process.

Walk back into the house and see boyfriend standing there, horrified. He looks at me and says, "You know you just released a bobcat?"

 

[Mahonri]

G'mornin dsqard congrats on LOCKdown and the converted DH.

 

[Mahonri]

Yup, you are half tired/dead.

If you are going to release a bobcat, you do it 75 to 100 miles away from home. Preferably in a zoo somewhere.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I read through the contests. No first chick hatched contest there. That was back in the NYD Hatch..... I think


It's contest number 6.

I might be half dead but I can still read. I think. I just can't identify predators.

 

[NotAFarm]

Quote:
SCG......girl.....you need to get some sleep!!

 

[happyhensny]

Here's my plate entry - everyone needs a little love.