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

[The Sheriff]

I was just going to post that tere are new submissions for the egg art contest but I see most of them are posted here already. To see tham all go here:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/easter-hatch-egg-art-contest

 

[kathyinmo]

Quote:

It took me over an hour to catch up... and that's just since lunch.

off to teach my class en Español.

See y'all about 8:30....

I'm translating this story into Spanish tonight... Teaching about Christ's Atonement....


I have a simple story I would like to recount. It is something of a parable. I do not have the name of the author. Perhaps it will have special interest for our children. I hope it will be a reminder for all.
“Years ago there was a little one-room schoolhouse in the mountains of Virginia where the boys were so rough that no teacher had been able to handle them.
“A young, inexperienced teacher applied, and the old director scanned him and asked: ‘Young fellow, do you know that you are asking for an awful beating? Every teacher that we have had here for years has had to take one.’
“‘I will risk it,’ he replied.
“The first day of school came, and the teacher appeared for duty. One big fellow named Tom whispered: ‘I won’t need any help with this one. I can lick him myself.’
“The teacher said, ‘Good morning, boys, we have come to conduct school.’ They yelled and made fun at the top of their voices. ‘Now, I want a good school, but I confess that I do not know how unless you help me. Suppose we have a few rules. You tell me, and I will write them on the blackboard.’
“One fellow yelled, ‘No stealing!’ Another yelled, ‘On time.’ Finally, ten rules appeared on the blackboard.
“‘Now,’ said the teacher, ‘a law is not good unless there is a penalty attached. What shall we do with one who breaks the rules?’
“‘Beat him across the back ten times without his coat on,’ came the response from the class.
“‘That is pretty severe, boys. Are you sure that you are ready to stand by it?’ Another yelled, ‘I second the motion,’ and the teacher said, ‘All right, we will live by them! Class, come to order!’
“In a day or so, ‘Big Tom’ found that his lunch had been stolen. The thief was located—a little hungry fellow, about ten years old. ‘We have found the thief and he must be punished according to your rule—ten stripes across the back. Jim, come up here!’ the teacher said.
“The little fellow, trembling, came up slowly with a big coat fastened up to his neck and pleaded, ‘Teacher, you can lick me as hard as you like, but please, don’t take my coat off!’
“‘Take your coat off,’ the teacher said. ‘You helped make the rules!’
“‘Oh, teacher, don’t make me!’ He began to unbutton, and what did the teacher see? The boy had no shirt on, and revealed a bony little crippled body.
“‘How can I whip this child?’ he thought. ‘But I must, I must do something if I am to keep this school.’ Everything was quiet as death.
“‘How come you aren’t wearing a shirt, Jim?’
“He replied, ‘My father died and my mother is very poor. I have only one shirt and she is washing it today, and I wore my brother’s big coat to keep me warm.’
“The teacher, with rod in hand, hesitated. Just then ‘Big Tom’ jumped to his feet and said, ‘Teacher, if you don’t object, I will take Jim’s licking for him.’
“‘Very well, there is a certain law that One can become a substitute for another. Are you all agreed?’
“Off came Tom’s coat, and after five strokes the rod broke! The teacher bowed his head in his hands and thought, ‘How can I finish this awful task?’ Then he heard the class sobbing, and what did he see? Little Jim had reached up and caught Tom with both arms around his neck. ‘Tom, I’m sorry that I stole your lunch, but I was awful hungry. Tom, I will love you till I die for taking my licking for me! Yes, I will love you forever!’”
To lift a phrase from this simple story, Jesus, my Redeemer, has taken “my licking for me” and yours for you.

Nice. Very very nice......

 

[CayuseRanch]

The final hours... Here is the edited quote from earlier, sorry sphinx that I had you on the list, I did have you on the spread sheet.

If I remember right, I think we had a couple of people setting Button Quail today! So today is the last day that anything would be set! So now it really is wait wait wait. Along those same lines, I almost have everyone tallied up on how many eggs were set and after the last few get put in today I will finish totalling them all up and announce a winner for the Number of eggs set contest! YAY!!!

So if you have not put your numbers on the participation form listed in post one, Please do so. Following is a list of who has not completed the participation form. Some of them are not BYC user names, ie the montesorri school. If you know anything about those, would you please pm me the numbers or do a participation form for them or let me know if they are included in your numbers. Otherwise, those eggs will not be included.
Happy Hatching

Names missing participation form

backroomtreasures
bugsaroo
CAC
chickaroo3
chickenfarmer1231
chickie15
galanie
gmolly
hdowden
jasmineszoo
jenlynn4
jessyeDagger
Jonespoultryfarm
kellyn
KYTinpusher
Laree
Lighthouse Montesorri
Lincolnsilkies
LlamaMama
Lotsapaints
lukeandAli
luvanimals2
newduckie
QuackerJackFarms
RareBreedFancier
Royd
Scooter & Susie
sierramay
sourland
steveH
Tiffrz-N-kidz
tinamommy727
xChickiex

 

[Arielle]

You are welcome to read along and there are a few actvities that don't require setting eggs. And if you're game, some of us are setting turkeys next. OTherwise I know I'm looking forward to nest years hatch a long.

Ooh Can I join in on the Turkey hatch? I am planning on setting turkeys too!




As far as I know anyone is welcome to join. I'm hoping my girls will get laying soon.

I have an entry for the Egg Art Contest. Two more coming. (I think we can enter 3).

Very clever Kathy!

 

[Spangled]

Goodness! (And the term I know for that area is the "bippie."

)

Well ... truth be told ... that's the term I originally learned from my mother dear.

I like this one. It's funny. But as I looked at the photo again just now, I noticed that I can't see the top of the egg. Where'd it go?

When I was about 7, we lived in an old house in East Tennessee that was infested with scorpions. Mama never let me go barefoot and she'd tuck the blankets under the mattress after I went to sleep at night.

::cringe:: (at the scorpians) I'm glad you had a good Mama.

We have always had our occasional scorpions but they are few and far between. My friend though, when he was an infant his mom put the legs of his crib in pots of water to keep the scorpions away from him. She said it was crazy, it was like they were coming from everywhere. ugh, I would have moved a heck of a lot sooner then they did lol.

I was having a dream one night about a year ago that a snake bit me on the arm. Well for some reason I woke up and looked at my arm that there was something black and snake-ish looking (in the dark) heading under my pillow. I jumped up and nearly beat myself to death on my way to the light. Turned it on and yanked my pillow up to see a centipede crawling down the back of my bed. He ended up getting behind my dresser and since my husband was out of town he got away. I slept on the couch for the rest of the week lol. I guess it really didn't bite me or whatever cause I didn't have any marks on my arm. I guess an odd coincidence that I had that dream right then??

Okay, if all the scorpian talk isn't enough to get people to have the shivers and heebie jeebies ... then you add in snakes and centipedes.

I hope your dreams aren't contagious.

When I was in Puerto Rico a few years ago we went up to the rain forest. The ranger told us to be especially cautious if we saw a red flag tied near the trail, as that indicated a nearby rabid mongoose

. Kind of ruined the whole hiking exerience for me.

Ugh. Rabid Tikki Tavi.


Sweet dreams, everybody.

 

[CayuseRanch]

Ok...caught up... I didn't multiquote, so lets see what I remember...
Alright Kathy and Laree, I give up, those isbars are yours! Kathy how did you get them so shiny?

On the "Day" discussion, I am always confused on this, so I am really hoping that Notafarm is going to post a "at high noon today we increase our humidity and put the eggs in lockdown" so I can figure out if day 18 is day 18 or if day 19 is day 18, because I hear it differently all the time.

Candeling...Love the candeling pictures...I only took that sneak peak the other day and am anxiously awaiting looking at them all. But I will be waiting until I see lots of pictures. I want some comparisons of blood rings, bad, etc...I think I can figure out the clears. Do you guys throw them out on day 7 if you think they are clear or do you wait till day 14?

Oh and I am definately naming the first chick Mahonri...then I think all of us Okies should get our Mahonri's together for date night, incubate their eggs and have a Mahonri breed!

 

[Arielle]

OK....after reading like ten pages a day for the last 3 or 4 days I GIVE!!! I cheated and just went to the end. I don't know how anybody keeps up with this?

So yesterday I tried to candle and egg for the first time. I couldn't see a thing! I don't know if I am going to worry about it. Let 'em cook and keep my eye out for seeping and my nose out for the stinkers! Below is my pic I'd like to submit for the calendar contest. It is a pic of Einstein, she was a very smart chicken, here she is giving out some serious stink eye!

I'm struggling too. Still need to read last SUndays entries!!

120 hours, Day 5:

Makes me feel very humble.

It took me over an hour to catch up... and that's just since lunch.

off to teach my class en Español.

See y'all about 8:30....

I'm translating this story into Spanish tonight... Teaching about Christ's Atonement....


I have a simple story I would like to recount. It is something of a parable. I do not have the name of the author. Perhaps it will have special interest for our children. I hope it will be a reminder for all.
“Years ago there was a little one-room schoolhouse in the mountains of Virginia where the boys were so rough that no teacher had been able to handle them.
“A young, inexperienced teacher applied, and the old director scanned him and asked: ‘Young fellow, do you know that you are asking for an awful beating? Every teacher that we have had here for years has had to take one.’
“‘I will risk it,’ he replied.
“The first day of school came, and the teacher appeared for duty. One big fellow named Tom whispered: ‘I won’t need any help with this one. I can lick him myself.’
“The teacher said, ‘Good morning, boys, we have come to conduct school.’ They yelled and made fun at the top of their voices. ‘Now, I want a good school, but I confess that I do not know how unless you help me. Suppose we have a few rules. You tell me, and I will write them on the blackboard.’
“One fellow yelled, ‘No stealing!’ Another yelled, ‘On time.’ Finally, ten rules appeared on the blackboard.
“‘Now,’ said the teacher, ‘a law is not good unless there is a penalty attached. What shall we do with one who breaks the rules?’
“‘Beat him across the back ten times without his coat on,’ came the response from the class.
“‘That is pretty severe, boys. Are you sure that you are ready to stand by it?’ Another yelled, ‘I second the motion,’ and the teacher said, ‘All right, we will live by them! Class, come to order!’
“In a day or so, ‘Big Tom’ found that his lunch had been stolen. The thief was located—a little hungry fellow, about ten years old. ‘We have found the thief and he must be punished according to your rule—ten stripes across the back. Jim, come up here!’ the teacher said.
“The little fellow, trembling, came up slowly with a big coat fastened up to his neck and pleaded, ‘Teacher, you can lick me as hard as you like, but please, don’t take my coat off!’
“‘Take your coat off,’ the teacher said. ‘You helped make the rules!’
“‘Oh, teacher, don’t make me!’ He began to unbutton, and what did the teacher see? The boy had no shirt on, and revealed a bony little crippled body.
“‘How can I whip this child?’ he thought. ‘But I must, I must do something if I am to keep this school.’ Everything was quiet as death.
“‘How come you aren’t wearing a shirt, Jim?’
“He replied, ‘My father died and my mother is very poor. I have only one shirt and she is washing it today, and I wore my brother’s big coat to keep me warm.’
“The teacher, with rod in hand, hesitated. Just then ‘Big Tom’ jumped to his feet and said, ‘Teacher, if you don’t object, I will take Jim’s licking for him.’
“‘Very well, there is a certain law that One can become a substitute for another. Are you all agreed?’
“Off came Tom’s coat, and after five strokes the rod broke! The teacher bowed his head in his hands and thought, ‘How can I finish this awful task?’ Then he heard the class sobbing, and what did he see? Little Jim had reached up and caught Tom with both arms around his neck. ‘Tom, I’m sorry that I stole your lunch, but I was awful hungry. Tom, I will love you till I die for taking my licking for me! Yes, I will love you forever!’”
To lift a phrase from this simple story, Jesus, my Redeemer, has taken “my licking for me” and yours for you.

Amen.



Quote:


Very creative.

 

[stephanie1992]

just added two more eggs to my bunch!!
I rescued two dove eggs from getting smashed by destructive people

 

[kellyn]

Just set about 78 or so buton quail eggs! I have 20 chicken eggs put in the 18th and 19th as well. I'll post a pic(if I remember) tomorrow.

Wellll, off to fill out the form~~~!

 

[jenjscott]

It doesn't look like I will be contributing much to the hatching numbers. Very few of my bantam eggs are developing. oh, well, warm up the other incubator and put in another load.