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

[kvmommy]

Awww...I'm sorry to make you run around all crazy like! I do think it would have been kinda funny if you shipped eggs to yourself...except that its a waste of money and I wouldn't get them part.

I can't tell you how excited I am. I'm kind of nervous about hatching marans...I hear they're hard to hatch! Thrilled with it though, and the others. And I'm very, very excited about the FBCMxGames. I think they just sound cool and if I were allowed a rooster I'd do the same!!



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[wolftracks]

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Actually your label was where I caught myself. I had already been there and paid for and left countrygirl911's box. I'm just glad it was still sitting there when I got back. It's a little PO and I pick up and drop off eggs, so they know what I have.

I probably only got it back since they figured it was going to smell bad if I didn't. I was just lucky that I went back and then remembered how I filled the first one out. I kind of stood there thinking.....hmmmmm did I or didn't I.

I'm going to be looking up sanding the FBCM eggs and see how that works. I get a few, but sometimes, they don't even pip and it's frustrating. Funny thing is I never had problems hatching them out until I started reading about others having trouble. Right now I'm keeping almost all of them that I hatch out. I rarely share the eggs, so I hope you both do really well with them.

Those BCM x Games though will probably be the first ones out. They hatch like crazy.

 

[Mahonri]

Pin it on your 2011/12 calendars...

the 3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch Thread will begin sometime on or after Halloween....

... that's just 6 months down the road and all of the 700 some odd pullets we hatched at Easter should be laying by then...

... just sayin'.....

 

[NotAFarm]

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Sorry, Mahonri, No New Year's Hatch for this girl! The same reason you don't hatch after early Spring...the weather..but not the heat...too cold for babies in Northern Illinois in January. Last years NYDH was the reason I joined this one and I'll be looking forward following all the antics as an "observer only".

to The Warden for spreading the wealth!!

Congrats to lamike!

Now let's see lots of pics of those various fowl you have!!

 

[GreenGoddess]

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I have a small spray bottle of blue food coloring.. Once the bleeding stop, I spritz the wound and pat dry.. Works like a charm and great in a pinch!

Goddess

 

[1muttsfan]

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I use blu-kot a lot on featherless, red or inflamed areas too, helps keep the other chickens from pecking. They are not as attracted to the area since it is dark, and I think it tastes bad too (haven't actually tried it myself). Be very careful though, it stains everything it touches blue (hands, clothes, etc). I have a shirt that has pretty blue speckles all over it from a flapping hen.

 

[Hurley]

Seiously saddened to not garner some paint Ameraucana, but hoping to be able to get some in the future.


Also quite sad that this is the last big hatch-a-thon for a whole 6 months.

Just got in a cabinet style incubator and am itching to try it out.

I was in just a bit of a pique at losing a large number of my hatch right in the middle of the hatch when the house got warm, which in turn led to the incubator overheating. Stopped my hatch dead, not a single pip after that.

And most of those eggs were fully developed on eggtopsy. So, grumbling about getting burned at the last hour by the one nice day we've had all "spring", I perused eBay's incubators as I've done on many an occasion, checking out the cabinet incubators and lamenting that you either spend $100 for styrofoam or $600 for a cabinet, where are the middle range ones? I've looked in the past at customincubators.com as they have some more mid-range cabinet style incubators, but hadn't yet pulled the trigger. This hatch was the last straw for me and those styrofoam incubators. *grumble* Well, back to the perusing of eBay...came across some of the customincubators listings and he had some "seconds" marked down because the color that was supposed to be a deep barn red when it dried was not so much. He said he just wanted those "pink" incubators out of his workshop.

Well, I don't care what color it is, though pink would not exactly be my chosen color, but hey, it was a good price and I was in the mood to buy an incubator. So I ordered, it arrived, I unpacked. I wouldn't call it pink, but it's actually quite an attractive dark mulberry color. I quite honestly am delighted as I like it much better than the brown incubators I always see. So, I have myself a mulberry incubator for my next hatch. It takes the egg turners I already have for the styrofoam incubators, so that works, and there is room for either 2 turners and 2 hatching trays or 3 turners and 1 hatching tray. Can't wait so try it out!

See you all this fall for the NYD hatch! Looks like my basement will house more chickens this winter until they feather out, LOL.

 

[kvmommy]

So you had a0% hatchrate too? If so why didn't you say anything! You probably set more than me which would've made you the runner up and you would've gotten the eggs. i'm sorry.

 

[Hurley]

Nope, I got 13% hatch rate, having some pop out before the temp spike.

With those, I'm delighted because I've got a nice number of Iowa Blues and a trio of Olive Eggers along with 5 blue Ameraucana split to fuzzy.

No worries, I've got plenty of eggs being laid that I can set and have plenty growing up.

 

[thebirdguy]

Ahhhhh... Spring in Idaho!!!

Here's what we woke up to this morning....

We had about 3 inches of snow...