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

[NotAFarm]

Quote: I am setting a big set tonight ~300 eggs.



300 eggs?!

 

[ChooksChick]

Last hatch of the year!

I'm just getting started good!

I'm still on my last hatch of LAST year...it's staggered so it never ends!!

 

[Fuzzybird]

Here is two pictures I want to enter in the calendar contest.

 

[dsqard]

Just stopping in real quick before chores.

They were pretty good girls today! They get treats! (course they get treats every day, good girls or not

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[ChooksChick]

The frenzy is really bad, though...I started looking with longing at the pile of eggs from the Eating Egg Coop in my backyard...caught myself counting the hodge-podge...and then I mentally calculated what the Hodge-Progeny would look like and reconsidered...

 

[kathyinmo]

Just stopping in real quick before chores.

They were pretty good girls today! They get treats! (course they get treats every day, good girls or not

)

I love pretty eggs!

 

[Fuzzybird]

I think the only problem with setting pullet eggs is they are usually small, therefore small chicks. I know a lot of people who hatch them just fine though. I guess if they aren't taking up valuable incubator space, what have you got to lose?

Thanks I might try then. I guess I read wrong the calendar photo contest is still on.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

So I started my seeds indoors a few weeks ago. What I normally do is put the seeds on a damp paper towel inside a ziploc bag that's labeled with the type of seed and the date that I first put them in there. Once they sprout (I check every other day or so) I move them to a soil based home.

I keep spreadsheets of how I'm doing, etc. So it's fairly well organized.

About 2 weeks ago I was checking my bags and paper towels for sprouted seeds and I noticed a small seed that had sprouted on the towel I had down on the counter.

I looked at it, and figured it most looked like a celery seed, and must have fallen out upon inspection so I planted it in a peat pot.

I had no other celery sprout, despite starting maybe 100 of them. But I digress.

The sprout's been looking odd-like, but I've never planted celery before, so I wasn't sure exactly what it was supposed to look like.

Today I finally realized that it was some kind of grass... where it came from, I have no idea. Maybe a seed from chicken food?

What would be the odds that IT would sprout, when 0% of the seeds I was TRYING to sprout sprouted.

Now back to your regularly scheduled chicken programming.

 

[kathyinmo]

Hilarious, SCG ! That would be just my luck, too! The only thing I can grow is weeds.

edited to clarify..... WEEDS, not "weed."

 

[buckabucka]

Chestnutridge, -sorry about all the delays with your Basque eggs. Mine are on route, so I'm hoping they don't get side-tracked. I'm also expecting eggs from the west coast, but haven't heard if they shipped (although she said, way back when, that she'd mail them on March 12, so I'm trusting that they are on the way).

Does anyone know if I should be able to view my egg art submissions on the contest page? They're not there, but maybe they aren't supposed to be there.

I'm still confused about the instructions from ronott's vet. Are people going to incubate their shipped eggs for 5 - 7 days without the turner on regardless of how the air cell looks? And if you answered yes to this question, are you putting your own non-shipped eggs in the incubator that has no turner?

Sorry so many questions!