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

[Noncentzter]

Kathy, Congrats on the pair!!

 

[HortonFarms]

I'm an earlier one..I set on Thurs.when you all set on Sat. Will be a couple of days ahead.

Don't worry, I am right there with you. I had to set early too, due to PO actually being fast for a change. I had to set Tues, Thurs, Fri and of course Sat. Now two sets of replacement eggs that were supposed to be here Mon are showing delivery date of Fri.

 

[SunnyDawn]

OMG that took forever to get caught up!

If I could figure out how to do without sleep and get all the animals to feed and water themselves I wouldn't get so far behind!

Here is my obsessive incubation question for you experts:

The kids will be on spring break and the school will be closed from day 11 to day 19. The director has agreed to meet me at the school a few times to let me in so that I can add water and check on the eggs (not that there's much checking I can do). I'm contemplating taking the eggs home on day 10, and then bringing them back on day 19 so that way I don't have to inconvenience both the director and I by going in multiple times while the school is closed (I figure I'll need to add water every 3 days or so- that's how often the one little well goes dry). I have a brinsea mini advance, and it always goes right up to temp within 15 minutes. Drive is 15 minutes, so it wouldn't be a huge interruption if I did take them home. Should I leave them at the school for spring break, or take them home?

I feel that I do need to add water occasionally because the ambient humidity around here is only 20% or so, and if I keep one well of water in the incubator, that keeps the humidity in there around 30-35%.

I've hatched several times in my classroom when I taught and here is my sage advice...
TAKE THEM HOME WITH YOU!!! There! I feel better now.

Once the power at the school went out and I couldn't get ahold of anyone to let me in and 2 other times staff that was there when I wasn't (well intentioned I know but...) got nervous about them and decided to "help" out!!!!! After that I or a responsible student with parent in tow took them home. I had much better hatches when I took them home. Get some warm blankets or towels, have everything else already in the car, take care of all other details before departing, open the car door up, then go wrap the bator up, unplug it and head home.

Wisher I have to agree, the best way for me to get DH to FINALLY do something he has promised to do, is to go out and start doing it myself. He will come running out and ask what I am up to. DUH!!!! I swear he is the king of "Iwasgonnajust". You know the land that is just east of Roundtuit.

This works for me too but not because DH thinks I'll mess it up (I was a Machinist for 12 years and am not a very good "girly girl" anyway) but because he doesn't want to take an all day trip to the ER again. The time we had to call the paramedics due to my back still haunts him! OK it haunts me too! Childbirth was a picnic in the park on a sunny day compared to that kind of back pain!!!

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Sage advice from you both! Wish I'd heard this back when I first started hatching.

And as for the deer story...deer attacks account for the most wildlife attacks on people. So when I was in the army at DLI in monterey, CA, while I was on CQ we had a urinalysis which no one knows when its coming. So I had to run across the base in the rain to wake the guys in their barracks at 4 am. I ran around a corner and ran smack dab into a young buck. We both were sooo startled and I froze. Then he lowered his head and charged, I ran sooooo **** fast and since I know how much faster deer are, I feel lucky that he was only half attempting to attack me. Everyone thought it was funny....but I didn't.

Great story for the Grandkids though!

Maine... where 76 degrees nets you a SEVERE WEATHER ALERT

Clarification for EVERYONE!

IF you all didn't figure it out before... for the BRINSEA contest.
ON POST #1, where it says:

PLEASE FILL OUT THE participation form HERE. See the results HERE.

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]On line 5 of that first link it asks:[/FONT]

How many eggs will hatch on Easter?

That's the number that if you guess closest to, you will win the Brinsea Incubator.

I suppose it could say, "How many chicks/eggs will hatch on Easter Weekend? to be more clear.

So lets say a non-Mahonri-hatchalong BYC member wants to participate? All they do is fill out lines 1 & 5 right?i

Not fair!!! I made my guess figuring that a lot of them wouldn't hatch right on Easter day!

Oh well, I'll know better next year.

Our incubator broke. All were lost.

I am too upset to even think about it.

OH NOOOOO!!! How horrible! I am so sorry for you! I would be heartbroken too!!!

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hee hee Yea I thought I was gonna hate it! I mean my last baby left the nest!!! But then you are left with a quiet, clean house (relatively) and the food you bought to make that special dessert? It seems like a miracle but when you go to the fridge it's still there!!! And don't even get me started on the other perks. Um... let's just say that Hubby and I are really enjoying the privacy!

Loved all the pics!!! Especially the celebrity look a likes! Those cracked me up.


Kathy congrats on the Emu pair!!! That is awesome!

 

[EnnisLakeFarm]

My DH had years of pulling lambs and cleaning up after horses. . . . by the time kids and diapers arrived he was totally prepared.!!

My DH had no problems with "animal yuck" - but anything that comes out of a human makes him ill! He can be pretty dramatic about it

 

[LarryPQ]

CONGRATS, KATHY!!!

 

[HortonFarms]

Well, I have almost got the pool up and running. Never thought I'd have up this early in the year, but we have already hit 90+ in the last 2-3 days. We will be swimming by tomorrow.

 

[Razadia]

Do you have a local organization that takes in animals that are surrendered. Perhaps you can help the horse owner give the horse up to a no-kill organization.

I've been thinking about that a lot today. I think I'll do that. I know just the one in the area too.

 

[kathyinmo]

Kathy, does that mean you're going to keep them?

Welllllll............
I am

 

[LarryPQ]

If nothing else, you need to keep them so you can prank people by sending them emu eggs.

 

[NotAFarm]

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I can't believe B and T are going to let you do anything BUT keep them..........