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

[Cattitude]

A great friend of mine picked up MRSA not long after his strokes; he had to have surgery for it and stayed in the hospital for more than a week. He almost had to have an amputation, and has a scar the size of a silver dollar on his hand/wrist area where they had to literally flush his bones with antibiotic solution. MRSA is scary. Only thing that keeps it from being worse than the plague is that it's not quite as easy to transmit. *shudder*

Many years ago, when I poured my hand full of hot grease, I used an OTC sunburn relief cream called Burn Off on it. The same company now makes a product called SolRX (and the first OTC treatment for radiation treatment side effects, called RadX). I've also dabbed cider vinegar on burns and they felt better (just stank like a sauerkraut factory). I've also heard that Noxzema cream works wonders, if the skin is unbroken.

VERY, VERY afraid. I've had two friends pick up MRSA in the hospital in the last year. One of them was 45 years old. The other is still alive and battling it with IVs and vacuum pumps.

 

[BHep]

Good Morning all

I got one box of swap eggs last week that I set already and one box yesterday. I expect 2 more boxes today. A little early, but that is ok.... I am getting about 50 eggs a day here. I will have something to set on Sat.

 

[NotAFarm]

I'm in! Just got 62 eggs in today.

Be sure to PM Mahonri and tell him to add you to the list!

 

[chick-among-us]

Ak Michelle! Im so sorry thought I was doing a good deed I sent 18!!Sorry

This evening, on the way to dinner with DH, I got a call from a coworker. His wife would like him to buy some of my Icelandic chicks. 2 Dozen Icelandic chicks

After I take the call I am excited about my big sale and start thinking about how many eggs I can fit in my bator. I have a Hovabator 1588, The turner holds 42 eggs. I have 2 dozen eggs ordered and a swap coming, so that only leaves me room for enough Icelandics to fill the order and none left for me. But if I stack them I could fit....

When we got to the restaurant, DH says, You know, maybe it's time to get one of those big cabinet style with, what have they got, 7 trays?

He wants to know how much they cost, I told him we can build one like Cheryl's, That would be enough chicks at one time. Besides, retailers are crooks of the worst kind. They post a shipping charge and then find out we are in ALASKA so they quadruple it. No joke. And I LOVE IT when they charge me $80 for shipping and the package arrives with $18.75 cents postage attached. When I call them on that kind of stuff they tell me the extra charge is for HANDLING. Um, they drop it at the same post office that takes the stuff they are shipping 2 states over, what is the "Extra handling" exactly? That is usually the question that makes them hang up on me.

Anywho... looks like there is a bigger bator in my future

 

[crazypetlady]

Someone sent me Silkie eggs in the swap, I don't know their name on here but THANKS!! I need something to fill the Silkie barn DH built on the weekend. Now he has gotten the idea himself to start building chicken runs BEFORE I need them. Good DH. Except due to chicken math I already needed more.

 

[NotAFarm]

Bobwhite quail need to be set today!! Only

days until we set chicken eggs!! As has been mentioned many times here, if you need to set at a time that is NOT noon your local time on Saturday, March 17,....no one is coming to "get you" and you don't have to "drop-out" of the Hatchalong. Noon on Saturday is a target that not everyone can make work for their own individual circumstances.....you will not be "excluded" because you can't hit the target time! I hope everyone's shipped egg orders arrive safely....if they are late....set them after they've rested and then post your number set then. Most important is that you're here, sharing the experience, having some fun and proving that ChickenMath is a force to be reckoned with!!!

 

[silkymom1986]

Hey Mahonri - just had to pop in and thank you for all of the egg orders you generated for me. I stayed up till 1:30 a.m. Sunday night wrapping eggs to ship on Monday just so everyone that ordered from me could have them in plenty of time for setting on the 17th. Sure didn't want them to get hung up at the P.O. somewhere and not arrive in time. I had several hundred dollars worth of egg orders for all different breeds from people who all wanted them for your Easter Hatch Along - so thank you, thank you. And to all who ordered from me - blessings on a great Easter Hatch. Your eggs were all freshly gathered before shipping and you can easily let them set to incubate on the 17th. When I'm setting my own eggs I often let them accumulate for 3 weeks and they still hatch. I keep them stored large end up in a cool environment. I know a read a couple of posts by people worried they got their eggs a day or two too soon so thought I'd pop in with my personal experience that eggs can sit for a loooonnnggg time and still hatch. Just ask the broodies that show up around here with 20 babies in tow from eggs they've been laying for over 3 weeks in a hidden nest somewhere. I've even read where people have taken commercially cleaned, frigerated, store-bought eggs and incubated them and had them hatch. So my words of encouragement to everyone in this hatch-a-long is to wait and set them and join the fun. I think I'll stick a few dozen in the bator myself.

Thanks again Mahonri - you generated a lot of business for me.

Very glad to know this, I was freaking out when DH called me yesterday and said I had 2 packages of eggs delivered!!! I will just let them rest longer and hopefully more will hatch!

 

[silkymom1986]

Someone sent me Silkie eggs in the swap, I don't know their name on here but THANKS!! I need something to fill the Silkie barn DH built on the weekend. Now he has gotten the idea himself to start building chicken runs BEFORE I need them. Good DH. Except due to chicken math I already needed more.

My DH can't keep up with my hatching either, lol. We have 3 coops and runs now and he says that's enough breeds for now, but there are so many more I want!!

 

[ChooksChick]

Silvadene... very expensive. (The nurse tried to score me some samples... they were all out) Trauma nurse also says that Neosporin on the large red parts should keep me infection free.

Hogwash. It is on the $4/10 generic list if you don't use a brand name. http://www.fredmeyer.com/generic/Pages/alpha_listing.aspx SILVER SULFADIAZINE (SSD) CRM 1% *†

I am lending my incubator to my neighbor, she will be hatching some of our Barred Holland eggs -woo hoo! So technically, I will not be hatching along. DH says Thank Gawd! As all 31 of the New Year's Day and Ground Hog's Day chicks are STILL in my house! I even have a sick room in the kitchen ~as it turns out, my culling skills have much to be desired -much like my carpentry skills.
So the reference to MRSA caught my eye, took my 21 yr old to dr today to have a cyst removed. We were worried about MRSA as she'd been exposed.turns out, not a cyst. Now we're testing for Hodgkins. Who would have thought that MRSA would be the better outcome? So now I'm sleepless.

So sorry! Praying it's something innocuous.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Is BR barred rock or bourbon red?
Makes a big difference if you're trying to sway me.