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

[gryeyes]

<*yawn, stretch*> I finally escaped the clutches of my Enchanted Recliner where I slept ALL NIGHT and made my way into my home office-slash-Nursery room. Brinseas all holding steady temps and keeping humidity within a tick or two of the setting. That is, I see the digital display change and watch the humidity pumps activate if the readings are more than a number or two off what I've set them to maintain. That way I know something is actually happening, rather than just always displaying the same thing just to fool me.

Five little WCB Polish chicks in their brooder were terrified of the bits of scrambled egg I gave them. Maybe they were more afraid of the New Dish I put into their brooder. Because I never got up out of the Enchanted Recliner to go to bed last night, I also did not put the lid of the brooder back on. Pleased to see Lizbeth did not suddenly turn chick-killer.

I was gonna try to integrate the silkies today. Took one of the 3 silkie chicks out of their pen and set it down where it was immediately pecked by three hens in rapid succession before I could take out the other two. Okay, back into the pen. Sorry, sweetie. Not yet. Yah, yah, I know pecking order rules were in operation, but the weather is kinda crappy and I would like them to have a nicer, warmer day to explore (under my close observation) as they run like heck from the larger birds! Those silkies look big in their pen until I take them out and the looming bulks of Molly BA, Bernadette CM, or Buffy BO are right next to them.

First silkies for me. I may become a terribly doting auntie. The WCB polish chicks may suffer the same fate. Why ever did I get talked into getting frou-frou chickens????

(They're so freakin' cute.)

 

[mrheinz77]

600 pages behind. My parents came to visit and I fell behind. HELP! I've fallen behind and I can't catch up.

 

[AK Michelle]

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and it's only 7.78 acres and undeveloped.... oh, there is Strawberry Water rights for irrigation and city water for culinary use if I want to pay to hook up to it and there is a power line on the east end, but hooking up to that costs... and it's like ESKIMO country from November thru March and I can no longer handle the cold.



Oh Dar, You have no idea what Eskimo country is. It's beautiful! come on up and see for yourself

Good morning my hatching friends. It's Friday Eve!

It is going to be a GORGEOUS DAY and a MARVELOUS WEEKEND!

And I'm reading this on Sunday...

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I wonder if hatching them with chicks would work like it does with turkeys. The turkeys hatched with chicks seem to learn how to be around them without crushing them even when they get huge and are 3 or 4 times the size of the chickens.

They are one and the same. I don't think there is another Laree anywhere

One was enough, that mold has been retired

 

[superchemicalgirl]

600 pages behind. My parents came to visit and I fell behind. HELP! I've fallen behind and I can't catch up.

You don't have a BYC-Alert bracelet?

 

[mstricer]

Hey your have great smilies where'd you get them?   Please share.
Michele

Many of these are from the Emoticons site http://momstheword.b1.jcink.com/ind...emoticons2&s=718bfebb6a4a801aa7cca6b9e7db4b10

 
You can find others by searching for smileys or smilies............lots of places out there.....

I got 12 eggs today!  Four are pullet eggs!  I am so egg-cited!  I have 9 hens and 10 pullets and they are kicking into high gear.  I have an Exel spreadsheet that keeps track of my chickens (date hatched, date purchased, date deceased, gender, breed, color, name and distinguishing features) my eggs collected daily, and monthly, and yearly.  It also tracks feed purchased and consumed.  I tried to share it but I don't have permission to have attachments.  I got 132 eggs in January`, 172 in Feb., and 161 so far this month. e

Congrats on the great egg production!!!  :cd    Wow, an Excel spreadsheet...........wish I was that organized!!  :/

Thank you, I finally found your post. I'm only on page 716. I will never catch up

 

[CayuseRanch]

Shhhhhh... It's nap time.

 

[mrheinz77]

You don't have a BYC-Alert bracelet?

I thought this was my BYC alert button.

 

[kathyinmo]

Downsizing in progress. 18 sold to BrettMO.
Brett (member of this hatch).

• Coronation Sussex (15 pound Sydney and 4 hens)
• Blue Laced Red Wyandottes (trio)
• 3 Silkies
• 3 Silver Laced Brahma chicks
• 1 Black Orp cockerel (100% English)
• 1 broody Wheaten Ameraucana
• 2 Lavender Orp hens

I can do this. I can do this. I can do this.......
Downsizing sucks.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Originally Posted by dsqard

Bucka here are your cliff notes through this afternoon:
Cliff notes version for those who can't keep up.
Waiting and chatter
Panic by those waiting for eggs
Set day, more panic by people waiting for eggs, panic by people CHECKING TEMPS WAYYYYYY TOO SOON (ahem, to Mahonri)
Contests starting to kick off
More panic by people about temps and humidity
PM's to Laree to fix mistakes
Back to waiting and chatter
Chick-among-us wrestles hawk barehanded!
Insomnia, emu pair, undies

 

[Arielle]

Downsizing in progress. 18 sold to BrettMO.
Brett (member of this hatch).

• Coronation Sussex (15 pound Sydney and 4 hens)
• Blue Laced Red Wyandottes (trio)
• 3 Silkies
• 3 Silver Laced Brahma chicks
• 1 Black Orp cockerel (100% English)
• 1 broody Wheaten Ameraucana
• 2 Lavender Orp hens

I can do this. I can do this. I can do this.......
Downsizing sucks.

Kathy, Good job! Yes, down sizing s----, but think of all the room you will have for the little ones arriving soon!!