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

[crazyeggs]

Most Ingenious Chicken Design Contest entry for me is our brooder Deb rescued this from a local auction house it WAS an outdoor barbecue pit....crazy huh? used to cook em ....now is home for them... it looked nothing like this when we bought it for 20 bucks...it had a bottom brace ,which Deb made the bottom or floor of the brooder ....We decided on a baby nursery theme...and my son picked out the colors, deb designed,modified and closed it in and I decorated and painted it. So here it is our nearly seven foot long baby brooder in some of the pics you can see the GREEN house brooder where they go when they first hatch then at about a week or so they go into the big kid brooder....easy to clean you just scoop out shavings with a dust pan.The light can be lowered or raised for less or more heat and we even change out lights to lower wattage on bulbs for older babies...the little shelves make storing things easy and convenient

"All Things Grow with faith and love" little chicks parade up and doen the ledges...and all over the words...they are hot glued on

Awesome Job!!!!!!

 

[ragerkid2]

Made me itch, just to think about it!

Eeeeeeeeek! My friend had mice and he would get mites on his hand from time to time. He said they weren't that bad. But I knock on wood have never had my girls get mites. Hopefully they never will.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Hahaha. You are all so sweet. I for one am gonna start calling my bator by this name. Just cause it makes the child in me laugh.

Laree I'm so very sorry about your friend.

X 2!!!

I just set 21 more eggs. Can I add those to my total? It;s no big deal if not. My neighbor asked me to set 9 Game eggs for him and I was saving eggs for Sunnydawn, but she can't safely get over the pass, so I figured I'd put those in too. I'll save closer to when I know she'll be here.

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I think I may be able to get this stupid form to work for me. We'll see.

I still may be setting quail, but I guess this 21 eggs is a no, so I'll just leave them off.

You can count anything you set by tonight. I was able to get to it via the link that Mahonri posted. IDK why I couldn't get to it the other way. Try it!

I love the macrame netting Sueg! Very practical too. Keeps flying predators out and keeps flying chickens in. We are in the process of tenting our runs but they are huge so I just bought a bunch of deer netting. I am going to sew it together and then cover the run tent-style. We are waiting on a delivery for 12' posts for the main poles. It will ne nice and tall but it won't be nearly as colorful. I love the bright cheery colors on yours!



Oh my gosh that brooder is adorable chick-among-us!!! I saw one that Cheryl Cohen had done in a pic she posted. Also very adorable! Such creative folks we have on BYC!!!

 

[Noncentzter]

Was a youth group leader for the high school kids some 30 years ago (makes me feel old!) and there was a kid in the group and his last name was Bates. He called himself Master Bates. He wouldn't giggle, but it made all the other boys giggle!

 

[wolftracks]

Finally got the form to work for me and I did add the eggs I set today so my new total is now 120.

Eggs set today at top and eggs set St Patrick's day on the bottom







Shipped

2 White Chantecler
2 Blue Andalusion
4 Double Lace Barnevelder
4 Sussex (split, Light, Coronation)
6 Black Tail Buff Japanese
6 White Silkie
3 Black Silkie
3 Paint Silkie
3 Blue Wheaten Ameraucana
5 Lavender Orpington
3 Barred Olive Egger

My Eggs

6 SPPR
11 FBCM
3 Welsummer
8 BBS Ameraucana
2 Lavender Ameraucana
3 Silver Phoenix
5 Second Gen Lavender Layer Project
30 EE/OE/Lav Layer Project
9 American Game
1 OEGB x Wellie

 

[Mahonri]

My camera is in need of new batteries before I can take my pictures of my eggs I set. Do the turkey eggs I set count even though I set them later that I should have....they won't hatch till like a week after easter.

Jamie

Nah, they should have been set before the chicken eggs so that they would hatch Easter Weekend. It's right there in Post #1 with set times for most poultry.

 

[HortonFarms]

Well, finally got candling done tonight. I lost 3 of my early eggs to blood rings.....

. It is too early to star losing eggs already. Oh well, down to 150 now.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Was a youth group leader for the high school kids some 30 years ago (makes me feel old!) and there was a kid in the group and his last name was Bates. He called himself Master Bates. He wouldn't giggle, but it made all the other boys giggle!

I bet! I taught elementary school and the kids just love humor like this. I used to say how much I enjoyed teaching 5th and 6th graders cause they were so easy to make laugh. Especially during the lessons on the human body. They would get irate with me and say that I couldn't make them laugh! I would just whisper (with a totally straight face) "diarrhea". It worked everytime!

 

[Mahonri]

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[Marty1876]

It is such a long process. Is it pinking up yet?