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

[ChooksChick]

Okay, I passed out at 10:30 (danged 5-HTP!!) and missed all of the action. I had to wake up at 12:20 to take DD's boyfriend home and found a damp FBCM which probably exited at 12:01. I could have logged on and taken a pic and yada, yada, but was barely awake, so I just went back to bed.

I have a duckling this morning and some pips- not the banty Cochins, though, which are all wiggling inside but slow to exit- unusual! Hope to get some more Blue Mottleds!

So- now I go back to read through everything- I hit 'post' without refreshing, so I have no idea how many pages I need to catch up on...I'm afraid!

Happy New Year, all! May your 2011 be filled with true self-awareness, motivation, health, energy, peace and love. Those are true riches.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I don't know how you all stand the suspense! I don't even have a bator and I can barely pull myself away from the computer. HMMM... maybe I shouldn't join the Easter Hatch. I'll probably have a stroke

Mahonri freaks ...... regularly! He would enjoy the company, I'm sure!

 

[BHep]

So if I check the incubator every 30 seconds, will I at least get a pip?????

 

[kathyinmo]

Current contests:
-First Chick Hatched after midnight your time WINNER: WILL IT BE Mahonri? YES!
-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 WINNER: Murano Farms
-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 WINNER: Ms.FuzzyButts

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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A watched incubator never pips?

I don't know.

I've got my blrw's hatching now... 2 are out and they are disgusting. one is laying on its back like a beached whale and panting. another is covered in some kind of gooey crud and shell fragments.

 

[featherz]

I have two more out! 9 so far.. Not entirely sure what they are yet. Two BLRW, two frizzled cochin and the rest are a mystery. I think EE or some variant. When all dry I'll post pics for guesses.

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

Finally got caught up reading all the new posts since 2:00am eastern time. Congrats to Mahonri I have 2 out and 9 pipped so I am feeling good about this hatch just alittle late. Good luck evryone Now on to the cutest chick pic

 

[PepsNick]

Morning everyone! Happy new year!

I'll just be watching these peeps!

 

[justtoni44]

Not even a pip here..but always slow.
I have an LG still air.
I am running on almost no sleep..............
Our weather is unreal......5 degrees with wind chill.
Everything is frozen solid and the wind gust are running about 50 MPH.
Headed for the barn in a few and really worried.....................
Hope all is well.they made it last year
We have power........so am grateful for that.
I worried myself sick over my chickens last night and mentally
tried to figure out how I could get them all in the house.
Put out several bales of straw yesterday to put a deep covering on the floor..
Maybe they will be cuddled up......

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERY ONE

 

[featherz]

I think this one might be EE/OE - came out of a teal colored egg.