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

[chevynova]

Thanks for the big welcome, everyone! And thank you for the tip, dsqard. I'll do it!

 

[debs_flock]

I thought you were going to say he got out and offered you money to come shovel HIS driveway!

That's what I was expecting!!!

Deb

 

[AK Michelle]

The turkeys I hatched with chicks are MUCH smarter and very gentle. The turkeys that were a hatch unto their own, skittish freaks. And I raised them the same way.
Plus the turkeys with chicks can be housed with the chickens without a problem. The other turkeys had to get their own pen cause they were stomping chickens. Not on purpose, but just not paying attention and walking on them

 

[mlm Mike]

That's what I was expecting!!!

Deb

Silly me, I thought he was going to offer to help you.

 

[thebirdguy]

SCG... That's more eggs than I fix for breakfast and I have 7 kids at home!!!!!

 

[AK Michelle]

Oh, and yesterday, 4 Icelandic eggs were in the nest box. They are settling into their new home

 

[debs_flock]

My DH, aka "The Enabler", insisted last night that I buy a third incubator to use as a hatcher for staggered hatches.

I currently have 111 eggs "cooking" with three different hatch dates. They were almost all shipped, so I'm not expecting a great hatch rate, but the action starts Mon/Tues, the second a week from Sunday and the third batch isn't due until the 15th. I was starting to stress about getting each group out of the way of the following one.

The last batch of chicks are in the brooder, the little roos were already starting to attempt crowing at 15 days, little hoolians!

Deb

 

[AK Michelle]

Yay for you.

Mine wants to build more breeding pens so we can have more pure varieties.

We must be contagious chicken fever is spreading e

 

[gryeyes]

I drove to work today Down The Hill through the most glorious thick frost everywhere all around! Looked like a snowy postcard, but it wasn't snow. Learned I may need an ice scraper for the windshields, as I couldn't see crap and had to warm the car up for yen minutes, first. New experiences for me.

My WCB Polish chicks are happy little things and the three older silkie chicks sharing the brooder bin are mothering them, sort of. No clue on the sex of the silkies, or the Polish chicks.

I think I'll be "doing" Trader Joe and some other grocery store fertile eggs, plus some Icelandic eggs, and some bantam orp eggs. But it's really up in the air until March 15, honestly.

And I'm caught up!

 

[PollyC]

Hi everyone, I just joined the hatch. Now to locate some eggs close by local. I do have some of my own but want some variety.