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

Mahonri's 3rd Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long Contests

1. Best Hatch Rate
For this contest during this hatch, participants will need to be setting a minimum of 24 eggs, with confirmation picture posted to this thread on set day. These can be under a couple of broodies or in your incubators. Tell us how many you will have cooking and then don't go back and edit your post where you tell us how many eggs you start with. We'll need that info by Monday the 19th of March at latest to be included in the contest. When the hatch is over, you'll take a pic and post it to show us how many you actually got...the picture must be of sufficient quality to count all the chicks.
In the event of a tie, the one who hatches the most chicks wins.

2. Cutest Chick Picture
For this contest, the chick hatched must be from Mahonri's 3rd Annual BYC Easter Hatch. The picture will need to be taken and posted by or before 11:59PM on April 15th, 2012... We'll be asking folks in the hatch as well as some moderators to help judge if they are willing. There will be 1st and 2nd place awards given.

3. Best Overall Hatch Participant
At the end of the hatch, PM your choice for best hatch participant to Mahonri. This should be someone who you thought was supportive, helpful, funny, encouraging... The person with the most votes wins! Votes will start on April 10th and end on April 12th, 2012.

4. How Many Chicks Will Mahonri Hatch?
Your guess needs to be made before 11:59:59PM on March 24th, 2012. The guesses will be posted above somewhere beside the hatch participant's name.
In order to help break a tie, You'll need to guess the breeds of the first three chicks out. If you want to know what breeds are in Mahonri's bators read the thread!
Laree will be putting up a spreadsheet for the # of guesses and the first three breeds.

5. Kathyinmo's Calendar Photo Contest
The goal is to make a poultry and holiday themed calendar. Submit your poultry related holiday pictures - all ranges of poultry age accepted. You will need to submit your photos on this thread as well as PM them to kathyinmo. Submission of your picture(s) to this thread and to kathyinmo means that you are giving permission to use their photo in a calendar printing. Contest runs until Easter.
Limit of 3 entries per person.

6. Notafarm's An Opportune Time Award
Three random post numbers have been chosen (known only to NotAFarm and SCG). The person who posts at that "opportune time" gets the award. You need not be a hatch participant to win this.
Prizes: Each post winner will receive a 6 mo GFM

7. ChestnutRidge's
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Most Ingenious Chicken Design
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Contest

During whatever week it is assigned, post a picture and brief explanation of your cool brooder / feeder / waterer / saddle / whatever that you created for your fowl. Once the contest ends they'll be put on a BYC poll for the kind folk of BYC to vote for a winner.
Prize: A copy of Gail Damerow's Chicken Health Handbook, which he/she will surely appreciate being such a witty chicken-fancier.

8. ChooksChick Flapper Contest
Post a picture of your fowl flapping in action!
 
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And whoever asked about the swap, Mr Heinz 77 is doing it monthly - it will coincide with the Easter Hatch dates.

Those of you unsure whether you should swap or not, I just did my first one for the Valentines Day Hatch and not only did I get some cool breeds and eggs, but I've had a great incubation rate on it so far... of 25 eggs that I received, 24 were intact and 4 eggs didn't develop.

It was a worthwhile experience. Thanks, Mr Heinz.
 
It's good, except that mine is rather, um, conspicuous.
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Just assign it to any week where a contest is needed. I know there are usually week 1, week 2, and week 3 contests. It could also run concurrently with someone else's.

I was actually thinking of adding little icons next to the others, but I have no idea how to do a non-BYC icon.

I fail.

Oh and I'll assign weeks as needed for those that don't care when their contest runs once we get closer to set date and I can see what we have and make it even(ish). There's always a few last minute contests and prizes offered so to do it before then is slightly pointless. I always run a contest, too, but I'm trying to get a prize first.
 
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Well, that is very, very, very bad news for me. . . I'm just asking for no real reason. . . would you have a few to spare for the hatch-a-long? Just "asking", not, not, not GETTING ANY MORE EGGS!!!!


I WISH I WAS BUT FOR A FEW REASONS I CAN'T. FOR ONE THEY ARE NOT UP TO TYPE, THEY HAVE ALL YELLOW LEGS AND FEET. "THEY ARE TO HAVE BLACK LEGS AND YELLOW FEET". I JUST LOST 2 OF MY JAVA BREEDER ROOSTERS, SO NOW I AM DOWN TO ONE ROOSTER. AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SHIP EGGS. I AM HOPING TO GET NEW JAVA EGGS THIS SPRING TO START OVER WITH THE RIGHT ONES FOR THE RIGHT KIND OF LEGS. I JUST NEED TO COME UP WITH THE MONEY!!!
 
I was actually thinking of adding little icons next to the others, but I have no idea how to do a non-BYC icon.

I fail.

Oh and I'll assign weeks as needed for those that don't care when their contest runs once we get closer to set date and I can see what we have and make it even(ish). There's always a few last minute contests and prizes offered so to do it before then is slightly pointless. I always run a contest, too, but I'm trying to get a prize first.

Ya mean like these?

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Yes, that.


(Punk)


I copied and pasted them into my post, but they didn't show up after I submitted it (they showed up when I was editing) so I give up.

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Only BYC sanctioned icons for me.

Highlight them and use Ctrl c to copy them. Use Ctrl v to paste them. The other ways don't always work for some reason.


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