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

[kathyinmo]

BarnGoddess, you take such lovely photos!

 

[Arielle]

To all you brave people who candle every egg:

You are very daring and enjoy high risk activities, me thinks!!

Me on the other hand, having broken an egg while candling in the past, I only spot check a few and use two hands as very clean hands are very slippery hands!!

Just a word of caution and LOTS OF LUCK canding!!!

 

[kvmommy]

My husband has as alarm on his phone thats a rooster crowing loudly and quickly over and over...so I had this dream that it was going off and he was late to work. I popped awake and half asleep thought, oh no! his alarm is broken. It sounds funny. Then I realized one of my 3 pullets was crowing. Guess one is not a pullet after all.

I had posted pics about a month ago and everyone definitely thought they were definitely pullets. I am not allowed roosters and DD wants to eat it! Ahhhh!!! I can't kill anything...I want to be a farmer and can't kill it. How do you guys do it? But...it was such a quiet crow. Instead of the loud, lusty UR,UR,UR,UR, URRRRRR! That I'd always heard it was. It was more like...imagine George Takei voice saying Oh,Oh,Oh, Oh, ohhhhhhhhh. It wasn't loud..and to be honest the only way to describe it is to liken it to what a Gay rooster might sound like. Is that normal? Cuz...I think I can get away with having a quiet gay rooster...I doubt anyone would hear it. Even though DD has her heart set on it. She also wants to feed the 'dead chickies' meaning the clear and quit eggs to dog. Is it normal for a 4 year old to be so morbid? Or am I just a wimp? And those of you that do scramble the eggs for the chickens do you also do it with the early quitters?

 

[Spangled]

And those of you that do scramble the eggs for the chickens do you also do it with the early quitters?

No. That would be difficult for me to contemplate.

But to each his own. Everybody's "Yuck Alarm" goes off at a different point.

 

[notinoz2007]

My husband has as alarm on his phone thats a rooster crowing loudly and quickly over and over...so I had this dream that it was going off and he was late to work. I popped awake and half asleep thought, oh no! his alarm is broken. It sounds funny. Then I realized one of my 3 pullets was crowing. Guess one is not a pullet after all.

I had posted pics about a month ago and everyone definitely thought they were definitely pullets. I am not allowed roosters and DD wants to eat it! Ahhhh!!! I can't kill anything...I want to be a farmer and can't kill it. How do you guys do it? But...it was such a quiet crow. Instead of the loud, lusty UR,UR,UR,UR, URRRRRR! That I'd always heard it was. It was more like...imagine George Takei voice saying Oh,Oh,Oh, Oh, ohhhhhhhhh. It wasn't loud..and to be honest the only way to describe it is to liken it to what a Gay rooster might sound like. Is that normal? Cuz...I think I can get away with having a quiet gay rooster...I doubt anyone would hear it. Even though DD has her heart set on it. She also wants to feed the 'dead chickies' meaning the clear and quit eggs to dog. Is it normal for a 4 year old to be so morbid? Or am I just a wimp? And those of you that do scramble the eggs for the chickens do you also do it with the early quitters?

my 6 and 10 year olds are also morbid i suppose. when i broke the news that we would be processing 4 roos they started fighting over who gets to eat the biggest legs.

i do feed the clears to the chickens and dogs, but not the quitters.
also, 2 weeks ago i had a new crower and thought 'thats not so bad' now he's gaining his voice and wants the neighbors to know it.

 

[Cynthia12]

Well, if human babies are being shown off..I have one of a grandson that we call the miracle baby, coming too early, growing slowly but surely, and was starting to really interact and notice people in this picture of him and myself. What a sweetheart! At our daughter's home, he couldn't go anywhere for a while.

 

[Scooter&Suzie]

Well, if human babies are being shown off..I have one of a grandson that we call the miracle baby, coming too early, growing slowly but surely, and was starting to really interact and notice people in this picture of him and myself. What a sweetheart! At our daughter's home, he couldn't go anywhere for a while.

Stop it! This is too much cuteness at one time! Ahhhhhh cutness overload.

 

[bobbi-j]

My husband has as alarm on his phone thats a rooster crowing loudly and quickly over and over...so I had this dream that it was going off and he was late to work. I popped awake and half asleep thought, oh no! his alarm is broken. It sounds funny. Then I realized one of my 3 pullets was crowing. Guess one is not a pullet after all.

I had posted pics about a month ago and everyone definitely thought they were definitely pullets. I am not allowed roosters and DD wants to eat it! Ahhhh!!! I can't kill anything...I want to be a farmer and can't kill it. How do you guys do it? But...it was such a quiet crow. Instead of the loud, lusty UR,UR,UR,UR, URRRRRR! That I'd always heard it was. It was more like...imagine George Takei voice saying Oh,Oh,Oh, Oh, ohhhhhhhhh. It wasn't loud..and to be honest the only way to describe it is to liken it to what a Gay rooster might sound like. Is that normal? Cuz...I think I can get away with having a quiet gay rooster...I doubt anyone would hear it. Even though DD has her heart set on it. She also wants to feed the 'dead chickies' meaning the clear and quit eggs to dog. Is it normal for a 4 year old to be so morbid? Or am I just a wimp? And those of you that do scramble the eggs for the chickens do you also do it with the early quitters?

Sounds like she's on her way to being a good farmer, to me

. As far as "normal", well, I really can't say. When my oldest son was 2, he sat in his highchair one say snapping the heads off his teddy grahams saying, "This one's dead, this one's dead, this one's dead...." No, he did not grow up to be an axe murderer or a torcherer of small animals. He's a counselor for at-risk teens. So, I think your little girl will be fine.

 

[drumstick diva]

Blarneyeggs - I knew it was a redhead. "You must have been a beautiful baby because, Baby look at your now." She's gorgeous!!

 

[kathyinmo]

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Well, if human babies are being shown off..I have one of a grandson that we call the miracle baby, coming too early, growing slowly but surely, and was starting to really interact and notice people in this picture of him and myself. What a sweetheart! At our daughter's home, he couldn't go anywhere for a while
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LOOK at that gorgeous baby!

I am admiring those lovely quilts, too!