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

[superchemicalgirl]

I got my Brinsea mini advance I won yesterday!!! woohoo, can't wait to fire that baby up and try her out!!!

Congrats!

I can already see a few combs getting bigger and pink in the brooder, although not too many, unfortunately. It looks like I'll be keeping my status quo of 70% girls. It is still early though so

 

[featherz]

Congrats!

I can already see a few combs getting bigger and pink in the brooder, although not too many, unfortunately. It looks like I'll be keeping my status quo of 70% girls. It is still early though so

I hope the eggs I got from you are also 70% girls! LOL. So far my only pink combs are popping up on my leghorn/BO cross chicks. Grr. I wanted a girl from those but at least two look boyish, even at this early date.

 

[kvmommy]

In case anyone ever decides to try this...don't. DON'T put your incubators outside in the sun to dry...IF you have free ranging chickens. That is...if you have styrofoam incubators. I now have an LG incubator top with 1/3 of the bottom. And fist sized chunk of the hovabator bottom missing. I think the hovabator is salvagable, but I get to test my idea out now...and thats a incubator heating element in a wooden box. I was just starting to like my LG too. I just need to find a cabinet or something I can throw the heating element in.

 

[gryeyes]

I know that about styrofoam already, which is also known as "Chicken Crack" around here.

Every now and then a piece of it will fall out of a box before I get it stuffed into the garbage can WITH THE LID SECURED and I will later find a new bit of sculptured art designed by addicted chickens, somewhere in the yard.

 

[Arielle]

I moved my Easter chicks out to the ginormous brooder in the coop (with their EcoGlow 50) this past weekend. They are loving the extra space - it's large enough for 50 chicks for five weeks; I have 27 chicks in it. The rest of the flock is VERY interested in the noise from it; some pullets jump on it and look down through the wire at them.

I can just imagine those girls looking down at those impudent chicks.

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Not sure yet.....can't decide if I want to try my welsummer lady's that just started laying or something else! Decisions decisions......

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I vote for welsummers! Or start with full size eggs and by then maybe the welsummers will be up to size and you can set again!

Congrats silkymom! That's awesome!!!


I got a very cute little crocheted chick in the mail. It is adorable! I'm going to stick a magnet on the back and put it on my fridge.

Thanks Notinoz!

Great idea!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I know that about styrofoam already, which is also known as "Chicken Crack" around here.
Every now and then a piece of it will fall out of a box before I get it stuffed into the garbage can WITH THE LID SECURED and I will later find a new bit of sculptured art designed by addicted chickens, somewhere in the yard.

I have styrofoam insulation around the bottom of my house. When I bought the house I had no idea it wasn't concrete because it was painted to look like concrete. I was blissfully ignorant until I got chickens.

I don't have any good pictures... but here's one where you can kinda see what I'm talking about. And extrapolate this to all the way around my house. In some spots they've even reached all the way through to the concrete foundation. It's horrible. I put up some ghetto boards to protect my house, but they will collapse them to get at the crack.

 

[NotAFarm]

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Not sure yet.....can't decide if I want to try my welsummer lady's that just started laying or something else! Decisions decisions......

lol

silkymom!! Those are the kinds of decisions we love to have..........

 

[buckabucka]

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Congrats!

I can already see a few combs getting bigger and pink in the brooder, although not too many, unfortunately. It looks like I'll be keeping my status quo of 70% girls. It is still early though so

Well, if I get my usual 70% boys, I may want to unload a few of them down your way. (And I DON'T mean letting them escape in Gardiner! )

 

[ChestnutRidge]

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!!! I would LOVE to have 70% girls, but alas, I usually have the opposite.

I have 6 Basque Hens from the Easter Hatch, and although I am hoping for at least 50/50, I may have 4 males and 2 females.... We shall see. Either way, they are the most ridiculously friendly and active chicks we have had! I can't believe they are only 2 weeks old. My husband loves all of the attention from them when he is in the bathroom, but I can't wait for them to move outside!

It's already like having a bunch of 5 week olds in there!

Super friendly, though, and super cute. They do not like being photographed, however, so pictures do not do them justice:

 

[Wisher1000]

I got my cute little crochet chicken from Notinoz, as well. I pinned it to my bullitin board at work with two yellow push pins at the bottom. They look like legs sticking straight out and it is adorable. It makes me smile when I look at it (and not think about my terrible hatch!) I really appreciate it, Thank you!