Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Mahonri]

straight jackets not optional....

 

[Wisher1000]

straight jackets not optional....

Mahonri, check out the post mentioned in my sig. It was the original announcement for the contest. It got a bit wacky!

 

[nightowl223]

Popped in for one final visit, and discovered I was several pages behind.

I'm 44 also. Long live the 80's! =)

47 in July. I have days I feel 12 and others, not so much.

I turned 46 in February, so I get the whole 80's thing

I was used to aches & pains from the heavy lifting and hard work I do as a semi trailer mechanic, but the back injury I got in February, which is NOT better yet, has been one thing I can't block out or work through...

I've been on the disabled list (no light duty at work) for far too long... *sigh*

Definitely feeling my age, now!
Mentally... well, that's a different story.

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I was gone for almost that long, too... who'd have thought an event that was over weeks ago would still have such a busy thread?

I posted this in the Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch thread but wanted to tell anyone here who may remember my issues.

Well, I figured out what happened with my Easter Hatch (or more accurately, Easter Didn't Hatch.) I saw a thermo/hygrometer on sale at Pet Supplies Plus and decided to buy it. I put it into my bator with the other two thermometers which were both registering the same temp and have been together throughout the last hatch. The new one immediately started climbing and stopped at 105! I made a quick run to Wally World and picked up another one and it agreed (well, was real close) to the new one.

I fried my last batch and may have already killed another one! What are the chances of two thermometers, one digital and one mercury both being off by 5 degrees? I am going to adjust the temp, leave them in and hope for the best. I will not be as disappointed if these don't hatch, I am just thrilled that I now think I know what went wrong. Besides, I have 20 eggs under a broody and her temp is spot on!

That turned out to be my problem, too, Wisher... one digital and one mercury thermometer, both within a couple of degrees of each other, and BOTH reading lower than the true temp! They went away...
I now have 3 thermometers and 2 hygrometers in the bator, and so far, so good.

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Originally Posted by drumstick diva
Sunnydawn That's okay, I prefer laughing to crying anyday. The cataracts were just a surprise. I had been seeing the eye doctor every 3 mos. or so while he was checking the pressure in my eyes. At some point he must have noticed cataracts in both eyes but, never mentioned it before. Duh!!
As they say, age is just a number. Forty was very upsetting to me because you weren't supposed to have babies past that age. Fifty was a breeze, I don't remember turning 60.. I'll be 65 in July and my thoughts are kinda troubled about being a stone's throw from 70. But I think if(when) I get to that point it won't feel any different. Maybe because I ride the senior bus and I'm one of the youngest. Many are late 80's, 90's and we've had a few 100 yrs.or older. Their grown children are older than I. Puts things into a different perspective. I'm much younger (immature) on the inside. It's just that looking in the mirror some grayhaired, fat, frump looks back at me. Haven't a clue who that is. Probably time to buy a new mirror.

Yes, of course, it's the mirror. Somehow I've gotten my mothers mirror!

That stupid mirror lies, I tell ya!

My daughter sent this to me and I thought some of you might find it interesting..............

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/17769677


A Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first.
Instead of passing out of the hen's body and being incubated outside, the egg was incubated in the hen for 21 days and then hatched inside the hen.
The chick is fully formed and healthy, although the mother has died.
The government veterinary officer in the area said he had never seen anything like it before.
PR Yapa, the chief veterinary officer of Welimada, where it took place, examined the hen's carcass.
He found that the fertilised egg had developed within the hen's reproductive system, but stayed inside the hen's body until it hatched.
A post-mortem conducted on the hen's body concluded that it died of internal wounds.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that the story has made headlines in Sri Lanka, with the Sri Lankan Daily Mirror's concluding: "The chicken came first; not the egg."

I read that a few days ago - and could only shake my head. Amazing!

A last note....
I will be making a calendar in the fall, for 2013. I will post to this thread, in case anyone wants to order one. I plan to use photos from this thread's contest, as well as photos from the New Year's hatch contest.

straight jackets not optional....

It never has been, has it?

 

[drumstick diva]

Come on guys - somebody volunteer to be OLDER than me. I'm sorry I opened my big mouth. I got 64, 64 ,64 who'll make it 65????

 

[mrheinz77]

If you want to wait 31 years I can say 65 but for now the best I can do is 34.

 

[1muttsfan]

Some days I feel like 65, does that count? (some days I feel 20 again

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[wolftracks]

I just popped in to say thank you. I just got the cutest little yard chick in the mail. At least I have another fuzzy butt to hold and cuddle. Thanks again!

BTW there's a whole lot of new chicks here since the Easter hatch. Thank goodness!

 

[viejo loco]

Come on guys - somebody volunteer to be OLDER than me. I'm sorry I opened my big mouth. I got 64, 64 ,64 who'll make it 65????

Drumstick Diva, I'll turn 66 in September. and feel much younger.. Except for some mornings... I may be the oldest one reading this thread... lol


edted because I may have the years, but not the typing talent...

 

[debs_flock]

Come on guys - somebody volunteer to be OLDER than me. I'm sorry I opened my big mouth. I got 64, 64 ,64 who'll make it 65????

My DH is 75, feel better?

Deb

 

[dsqard]

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Hey my mom is going to be 70 in a couple weeks, does that count?

to drumstick diva, you are only as old as you feel. You don't sound like you are 64.