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

[ThePigeonKid]

superchemicalgirl

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

Go ahead and add me to the hatch list. I have no idea what I'll hatch out.. But I think this would be fun.

 

[NotAFarm]

SCG, It's always funny later....sometimes much later!!


Last summer the DH changed all the outside door knobs because one needed to be replaced (don't ask). I always go out to the coop/barn through our garage because my coat and crocs are kept there. The old knobs had the feature of not turning when locked so you had to unlock them to get out....new knobs....don't have that feature....yep, how many times did I get locked out before I finally learned to check it? More than a few.......We always have had an "emergency key" hidden and I had never needed until the new knobs were installed. I do always have my cell phone in my pocket so the first time it happened, he was inside so I called him to let me in.......his response....we have a key out in.........

 

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG, It's always funny later....sometimes much later!!


Last summer the DH changed all the outside door knobs because one needed to be replaced (don't ask). I always go out to the coop/barn through our garage because my coat and crocs are kept there. The old knobs had the feature of not turning when locked so you had to unlock them to get out....new knobs....don't have that feature....yep, how many times did I get locked out before I finally learned to check it? More than a few.......We always have had an "emergency key" hidden and I had never needed until the new knobs were installed. I do always have my cell phone in my pocket so the first time it happened, he was inside so I called him to let me in.......his response....we have a key out in.........

Glad it happens to all of us.

I locked myself out once at my first (rented) house in Maine... my first winter here. (This is a common theme) I go outside to get something in wet hair and a t shirt... door closes behind me and it's locked. I do have access to the garage, but I live alone at this point so no one is going to help me. I freak out. I finally get smart, find an old ladder in the garage and manage to shimmy up and into the second floor bathroom window with the aid of the ladder. And promptly got a spare key to keep in the garage.

I never manage to lock myself out in summer.

Or even in winter with electric knickers on, Laree Style.

 

[crazyeggs]

I am in!!!! I will hopefully be hatching some of my Lavender Orp eggs if not I will be on the look out for some

 

[Lady Chickadee]

I am in!!!! I will hopefully be hatching some of my Lavender Orp eggs if not I will be on the look out for some hint hint

I totally forgot that my lavender orpington hen(only have 1 pair) might be laying by then.... I guess I might just have to add some more eggs in my incubator then!

 

[kathyinmo]

Glad it happens to all of us.

Have you ever got locked IN the coop? I have read a few of those stories.

I confess, one time I was locked in the coop..... well, in the breeder barn. My son had locked the barn door, not knowing I was inside. I can't recall what I was doing, but I had no idea he locked it. I yelled and hollered for a while. I even checked out the pop doors to see which one was the biggest. THEN, I remembered I had my cell phone in my pocket.

 

[NotAFarm]

to all the new hatchers!!

If your hens aren't laying yet, there is still plenty of time.....of course, you could order eggs...just in case, and then when yours start laying, you'll have even more.....and we all know more is better when it comes to chickens...or any other kind of poultry!!!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Have you ever got locked IN the coop? I have read a few of those stories.

I confess, one time I was locked in the coop..... well, in the breeder barn. My son had locked the barn door, not knowing I was inside. I can't recall what I was doing, but I had no idea he locked it. I yelled and hollered for a while. I even checked out the pop doors to see which one was the biggest. THEN, I remembered I had my cell phone in my pocket.

Lucky for me my coop door doesn't lock. I have no idea how I'd get out of that one, either. The coop is pretty far from the house. The screens come out of the windows in there, but I usually can't figure out how to do it. Some weird trick where you have to push in and up and then back while singing the alphabet backwards to unlock it. I'm only good at the backwards alphabet part.


Probably hold a rooster at the window to torture him into making noise??

I should keep an air horn in the coop, too, just in case.

 

[buckabucka]

I had some excitement this morning. I go outside real quick with the tape measure to measure my garden (I'm plotting for spring). I hear the front door open and my boyfriend walks out onto the tiny porch we have and goes "SHOO SQUIRREL" to the squirrel in the chicken run. I hear door close. I finish measuring the garden and run back to the door to get inside.

It's cold out... it was about 11 degrees and really windy. And I'm not really dressed for outside, cause you know, I'll only be out there a few minutes.

Only... the door's locked.

I bang on the door, nothing. I set the doorbell off, nothing. Try the garage door, it's locked.

I realize boyfriend didn't know I was outside and locked the door. I remember that he was most likely going to use the bathroom and take a shower, etc.

I start throwing pieces of hard snow at the bathroom windows (of course the only room we have blinds in). Run back to the door and bang and set off the chimes. Nothing. Run around house to front and climb up on garden bed to bang on bedroom window. Nothing.

I'm starting to get really cold at this point and weigh my options. I realize it's going to be probably a half hour before he gets out of there.

So I go and sit in the chicken coop, at least I'm out of the wind. My two major chicken snugglers, FatOne and Tonya Harding Chicken, jump up into my lap and help keep me warm. Also cover me in poop from their epic poopfoot cases.

Every 10 minutes I go back out to the door and start banging and ringing the bell, throwing stuff at the bathroom windows.

Finally, somewhere around 40 minutes later boyfriend hears me and unlocks the door to let me in. He's totally perplexed at why I'm locked outside.

He never heard the doorbell chimes - he was playing music. Never heard me banging on the front door or on the bedroom windows. The sound of me throwing stuff at the bathroom windows he thought was me outside shooting (he was hoping I got the squirrel).

Sigh.

In case you ever want to come steal from me, there's now an extra house key in the chicken coop. You'll have to fight my horde of chickens and their poop to get it, though.

You need to write a book! This is the best entertainment I've had in a while.