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

[dinahmoe]

ok
i will list what i set but will have to get a picture later.i can't find my camera for over a week now.

these are all my own eggs.

24 bantam faverolles
8 wheaten ameraucanas
4 silver penciled rocks
11 partridge rocks
2 bantam barred rocks

project eggs
4 blue silver penciled rocks
4 blue welsummers
18 chocolate marans

total eggs-75

 

[kathyinmo]

I'm looking forward to a little rain - need to fill my pond back up so the ducks will stop yelling at me. Suddenly the tank isn't good enough anymore

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Loving farm life with my understanding husband, 21 cats, 2 paints, 1 percheron, 1 spoiled rotten Friesian/percheron cross, 3 pinto minis and too many chickens to count (I really DON'T want to know) Pure Bred Iowa Blues and a mixed flock of BBS Cochins, BBS and Lav AMs, Welsummers, Buff and Lav Orps, BRs, BJG, SLW, BCM, RIRs, Australorps, Langshans, Icelandics, lots of EEs, turkeys and a few ducks.

You have 21 cats?

 

[onawhimfarm]

My contest pic for the ingenius chicken invention/build:

This is my grow out pen. My DH DC and myself built this out of material we found laying around the farm and an old hay ring that we haven't used in years. It is all recycled stuff!! The fencing is all the way around and top and bottom of the hay ring and is orange plastic safety fencing.



The coop is 4ft x 4ft and the ring is about a 8 ft circle 4 ft tall.

 

[1muttsfan]

I picked up a really nice Rubbermaid cooking thermometer at Gordon Foods, has a long stem that can be immersed, and when I checked it in boiling water it was only a few tenths of a degree off. I use it to check my other thermometers against, and it fits nicely into the top air vents of my incubators.

 

[kellyn]

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hmmm... how abooout, the best incubator picture? if anyone knows, i like incubators the best out of everything "chicken" and have 3 home made ones and swear that whenever i get a job im gonna buy a Genesis hova-bator. and two goooood thermostats.

yeah~ contest is for the best incubator design. it can be home made, or it can be store-bought. i've seen some interesting foreign(not american) incubators on tutorials.

another thing is that it doesn't have to be your own incubator, but you hafta say where you took the picture from.

and seeing many(hopefully) different designs will show myself and others what possibilities there are for incubators.

and i like to draw, i just rarely have motivation. i hope no one is allergic to sharpie markers and white-out.

im actually on a computer(at school) so i can post pictures. in a few minutes...

 

[kathyinmo]

Wow .... that messed up my post and signature line .... some how.

 

[mstricer]

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Nice eggs. What are they?
Michele

 

[dsqard]

Awesome! The prizewould have to be a drawing or something because I really can't make anything cool like a crocketed chicken. I can just draw. The winner and 2nd and 3rd placers would tell me wht they want drawn. I can draw almost anything except people. I drew an awesome pea-cock in 1st period today. I can draw chickens but I make them look... cartoonish...

Crocketed chicken? Is that this?: or this?:
JK you gave me a chuckle today

Well...I have an unpleasant experience to share.

In the last month since she finished her molt, my polish hen developed a nasty case of mites in her crest, and I brought her in to put some Ivermectin on her. I already had her in my hands, right?

Wrong. Always treat the chicken outside.

I dumped her drops of Ivermectin in her crest as I parted it to get to skin, and then let go to put the lid on while she placidly sat in my lap (she's one of the calmest, cuddliest chickens I have, and that's saying a lot, because mine are all teddy bears).

Then she shook.

I was covered in mites. They had begun running for the hills already and when she shook they went flying all over me...and my mudroom, I imagine.

I pitched her out the back door and ran for the shower.

Cool ! Ok, you have the prizes. Now, what is the contest?

X2!!!!!

 

[roncrna]

Thats an awesome egg holder. I need to steal some from my son to do this when it's hatch time so they don't roll around like mad in the bator when the chicks start hatching.

Ok... I am needing to post my eggs for the contests and whatnot. So, here's my picture! But how do I change my entry form to 14 instead of 12? Arielle was nice enough to send extras, but I can't figure out how to change the form...

 

[kellyn]

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wooooops! spelled that wrong, now didn't I? i meant the cute ones made of yarn, not dinner.

but chicken in a crock-pot IS good.