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

[SarahIrl]

Head hurts. You can guess why.

I took my mom out for her birthday to a local very posh hotel for a taster evening. Communal dining, seven courses, wines, fairly pricey per ticket. It was lovely, the company was great, the wine flowed, the food was experimental. I'm half dead. I hate hangovers.

 

[BHep]

Caught up for the moment................

 

[featherz]

I guess I am lucky, we got just enough to be pretty but not enough to cause me any problems. Maybe 1.5 inches, if what I see outside the window is accurate. Probably will melt by noon. This has been a weird winter! I tell everyone here that when I moved here from the california mountains that I expected to have to dig my way out a window each winter (I mean, it's upstate NY, right? that's BAD SNOW there!).. so far, over three years the snow in California was 10X worse.

So we got snow last night. Uggh. Heavy, wet, about 6 inches worth.

 

[dsqard]

Born and raised in Stockton/Lodi....you're preaching to the choir

I actually miss tule fog.....................

It is a small world if you are talking about Utah

Living in Stockton right now (the picture I posted of the trucks sunk in the lake is Rush lake) I lived for about 10 years in Maine too. Loved it up there as a kid. Lived in Yarmouth at the time. Never got into eating lobster though.
ETA - after reading the rest of the posts, I realized you were talking about CA not UT. DOH! When I lived in Maine, we lived near Casco Bay and would get wonderful fog in the spring and fall. It would be very thick and it would smell like the ocean. Loved it. True meaning of fog as thick as pea soup.

 

[ChestnutRidge]

Countdown for Setting DUCKS - Eastern Time Zone

Countdown for Setting CHICKS - Eastern Time Zone


Sorry for all the testing posts.

I did finally realize I could just edit one post.

This is great! Definitely worth the effort. I think I will taunt my DH with this later...

He gets nervous whenever I talk about the upcoming hatch because we are looking at about twice as many eggs (and chicks!) as last year's Easter Hatch. And then they live in the bathroom for four weeks...

Head hurts. You can guess why.

I took my mom out for her birthday to a local very posh hotel for a taster evening. Communal dining, seven courses, wines, fairly pricey per ticket. It was lovely, the company was great, the wine flowed, the food was experimental. I'm half dead. I hate hangovers.

That sounds like a very nice birthday evening for your mom! Drink a lot of water and take a B-complex. It's best if you do this before bed but will help at anytime.
And it's a fantastic excuse to take it easy today and relax if you can!

 

[Arielle]

Countdown for Setting DUCKS - Eastern Time Zone

Countdown for Setting CHICKS - Eastern Time Zone


Sorry for all the testing posts.

I did finally realize I could just edit one post.

Just what I needed!!!

 

[NotAFarm]

weeks from today at noon your local time, we will set chickens eggs!! You no longer have time to start a hatch...unless they're button or coturnix quail or maybe some breeds of the smallest bantams! Muscovy duck eggs will be set next week, March 3rd. It won't be long now...........

 

[Arielle]

I guess I am lucky, we got just enough to be pretty but not enough to cause me any problems. Maybe 1.5 inches, if what I see outside the window is accurate. Probably will melt by noon. This has been a weird winter! I tell everyone here that when I moved here from the california mountains that I expected to have to dig my way out a window each winter (I mean, it's upstate NY, right? that's BAD SNOW there!).. so far, over three years the snow in California was 10X worse.

MIL is from upper state NY--the stories of mile high snow are all that I've heard, too! But then when I lived in Maine I remember mile high snow banks during the '60's. I do need some snow in the winter or else my seasonal clock is off! I still think it's late fall.

 

[dsqard]

Question for all you turkey owners out there. I have been waiting and waiting for my hen to start laying (I kept a pair from last year's Easter hatch so they are not quite a year old) The hen has been ignoring all of the tom's advances until yesterday when she finally let him breed her. Does this mean that I should be getting eggs out of her soon? I keep hoping that I will have some for this hatch.

 

[LarryPQ]

Not really. Turkeys lay eggs seasonally: spring through fall. My turkey hens were laying for a while before they let the tom breed them. Yours may be ready to lay, but it is still too cold outside.