Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[SteveH]

Had a nap , but it was not restful . I dreampt I was back on my old job , trying to conceal my injured discs so I could keep working . On top of that , I took my bator with me LOL . Since there was a toddler wandering around , I latched the door to the room with the bator . I came back to hide in that room because my back was hurting ; a lady was watching the toddler destroy the eggs and chicks and laughing because she thought it was cute . I woke up at that point , and my back is killing me . LOL

That pipped egg is not doing anything , nor are there any other signs of life . But

 

[HBuehler]

I just went into my bedroom to shut the windows...60 degrees on the last day of Dec isn't bad...well back to the story I had chicks chirping like mad in there..but my hatching bators are in the living room.Opened the chirping bator and found 2 chicks

rushed them to the hatcher..I don't obey lockdown rules obviously and stuck them in with the other chick and went back to double check..more peeps found a pipped egg so I had 3 more than I counted for lockdown

so count so far is 2 cochin 1 Cornish and 1 blue mix
I didn't set mine at noon...I was so far behind I didn't stick them in until around 5PM

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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You still have a bunch more that may make it though, Kathy. I wish I did, I would love to have that book.

I have that book

Great for making an "I Wish I Had..." list

Actually DH has that book .... He bought me one similar but smaller..... same pics and info in it just pocket sized or something


Edited because I should have spelled pocket right

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You guys can all stop trying for cutest chick now. I'm a ringer.

 

[kathyinmo]

Darn, Steve, so much for a restful nap! Sorry your back is hurting!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Sorry Steve.


IKWYM though....had a migraine starting earlier....strange dreams after taking my meds and sleeping a little - I had eggs hatching out of eggs in my bator! some were bigger than the eggs I started with!

Then I had a rooster in my house laying an egg and crowing at the same time!

........and now migraine is trying to come back! I am on pip-patrol though! No more meds!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Well the rest of the night should be fun.... 3 eggs left to make 5 hours... LOL, a foster dog who has watched the bator all day and DS(5) who is not feeling good and very crabby

poor kid!

 

[elieugene6]

I have a cute little fuzzy butt! Gold laced cochin is early and a ee was late so I have 2 at the moment but no other pips

 

[kathyinmo]

6:55PM my time, post # 5305 ..... this picture of my pip enlarging into a zip ..... hahahaha, maybe it will make it to post # 5500!

 

[kathyinmo]

Reminder .....

Current contests:
-First Chick Hatched after midnight your time
-Best Hatch rate % set/hatched
-Cutest new chick pic
-Best overall participant - (gets to choose between a 6 month GFM & a Calendar.)
-HOW MANY CHICKS WILL MAHONRI HATCH?
-Rooster Crowing picture ..... prize: incubator! (open to ALL BYCers
-How many posts on this thread at the stroke of New Years, Mahonri time. Prize: 'Extra Ordinary Chickens' calendar
-Best BYC page made to document this event or your own hatching in this event. 1 dozen Delaware hatching eggs.
-"Die Hard" contest... the last chick to hatch from the original setting of eggs (12.11 at noon, your time) will be the winner. The prize is a coupon for "Buy 6 get 15$ Off" Purina products. The products eligible are 50lb bags of Layena, Start and Grow (medicated or not), Flock Raiser or 25lb Flock Blocks. AND a dozen hatching eggs Cuckoo Marans or Indian Rivers (Delaware roo over New Hampshire hens)
-Chick hatching the soonest after post 5500 - prize "Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds" by Carol Ekarius


When the pictures start rolling in for the "cutest chick contest" we are gonna need someone to keep a BYC page updated with the pictures. Anyone want to volunteer for that job?