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

[NotAFarm]

Thanks SunnyD!! I only have an old Farm Master cabinet incubator and it only has a wafer, no digital anything on it. It lives in the garage and holds great temps despite the flucuating garage temperature. I don't use it much as I have hens who love to raise chicks but I will be hatching some this week and then for this Hatchalong in it!

 

[featherfriendlyinIowa52]

I would sooooooo love to do this...if I didn't travel 4 hours to my daughter's every Easter to watch her sing her heart out in church and have Easter dinner (which she stews over for a month). I'd be on her chicken sh-- list if I told her I couldn't come 'cuz eggs were hatching!

 

[debs_flock]

I would sooooooo love to do this...if I didn't travel 4 hours to my daughter's every Easter to watch her sing her heart out in church and have Easter dinner (which she stews over for a month). I'd be on her chicken sh-- list if I told her I couldn't come 'cuz eggs were hatching!

Oh no, no excuse! By hatch day they are pretty self-sufficient. In fact, if you aren't home you can't "over-interfere". You'd just come home to an incubator full of new fuzzies (and the chicks are due to hatch the day before Easter)!

Come on, join in!!!

Deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I would sooooooo love to do this...if I didn't travel 4 hours to my daughter's every Easter to watch her sing her heart out in church and have Easter dinner (which she stews over for a month). I'd be on her chicken sh-- list if I told her I couldn't come 'cuz eggs were hatching!

This hatch is supposed to "come due" the Saturday before Easter... you could always join us and hatch Friday, too.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Thanks SunnyD!! I only have an old Farm Master cabinet incubator and it only has a wafer, no digital anything on it. It lives in the garage and holds great temps despite the flucuating garage temperature. I don't use it much as I have hens who love to raise chicks but I will be hatching some this week and then for this Hatchalong in it!

Sounds like a great bator!

You just brought back some great memories! I used to have a dear friend that called me Sunny Dee.

 

[Wisher1000]

Deb's right FeatherFriend, stop making excuses, you know you want to..........

I have had as many as 35 guineas at one time. I love them at times and other times, not so much. Mine will eat out of my hand but it's not fun to try to hold them.

I am down to 10. I have lost several to the road. The dummies will stand in the middle of the road and SCREAM at an approaching car until it runs slap over them. Folks on our road have gotten pretty good about slowing down in the mornings since that is when they generally play in the road. Several times, I have been leaving for work and as I pull out of the drive, someone will be stopped in the road because their vehicle is surrounded by my guineas, screaming their heads off. Other times I come home from work to find guinea feathers for a quarter of a mile stretch of road. They are also prone to commit suicide by lineing up along the top of the dog pen and screaming at the dog until the dog has had enough. Then one will jump down into the pen.

They have accepted the dog as part of the farm and are not scared of him at all (even though he has to stay in a pen so he will not kill free range birds during the day.) But I have mostly lost the hens when they hide their nest so well I can't find it and something gets them at night when they go broody.

Don't worry about buying straight runs, either. They pair up and 50/50 is perfect, but if you have more males, the extras will spend all their time chasing each other. I actually hate to see less males because the females without a mate in the spring are pityful. They will tag along with a pair, being occasionally mated and constantly snubbed by the others. I think I have 2 or 3 females out of the ten and it is just fine!

Oh, and they can be nasty to chickens sometimes. They fight totally differently and a chicken doesn't fare well. They don't bother my alpha roo, but they give the other chickens a good shake and pull a mouthful of feathers out of the rest of the chickens pretty regularly in the spring (when the fever starts.)

 

[NotAFarm]

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OR.......you can set them "late" on Sunday night, the 18th, and they will be hatching when you return home from your DDs!! See how we're all about enabling helping you!!

 

[notinoz2007]

Quote: my aunt says if you dont want to hatch males, incubate at 40 degrees

 

[debs_flock]

Let me see,
this is my off week from work (every other),
the sun is out,
it's in the mid-70's,
I have all the windows open to air out the house,
I have eggs going into lockdown tomorrow,
so I'll be home to see them hatch,
I JUST pulled this out of the oven

so my house smells wonderful!!!

What more could I ask for? (At the moment, anyway

)

Deb

 

[Arielle]

my aunt says if you dont want to hatch males, incubate at 40 degrees

That would work!!!