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

[dsqard]

Oh there is a cliff note somewhere. how cryptic. Does anyone have a tracking #?

The PO lost it

 

[BHep]

Bhep- My eggs hatched yesterday that you sent me. 12 out of 17 hatched out

The NN hatched and OMG its poofy on its head and my husband thinks its ugly but we won't talk about what he looks like lmaooooo. The NN/Frizzle and the NN/EE/Frizzle all hatched out as well. I am guessing they will look something like the one in the pic. Very cool.

Pics ???

 

[mstricer]

Wow, just caught-up after being gone for 24 hours! Thanks SCG for filling-in while I was out being bad to the bone!!!

Congrats Debs_Flock and karimw on the Icelandic eggs developing!! Only two more weeks to go (FYI-Icelandics have a tendency to be "early to the party") !!

Michelle, Love the white pups in the snow!!

Laree, "butt-shelf" and great egg art!

Kathy, Love the aliens!!

You'd better get the "emuansion" built soon for Fred and Wilma!! Here's what it should look like!

Great animal stories........hate the insect, bug, creepy crawlie stuff........love the chick and chicken pics.....

Going out now to check for eggs and see how the flock managed without me..........

Hey your have great smilies where'd you get them? Please share.
Michele

 

[BHep]

No I'm not sure it's my 1st time doing quail and the PM I got from the sender said they were sending me JB quail eggs so I figured it meant Japanese Button Quail.

That would be Jumbo Courtinex.

 

[BHep]

bhep! That frizzle nn is soooooooooo.....soooooooooo....sooooooooo cute. I hope hope hope hope I get one!

I can't even remember what I sent you.

If you have a small green egg marked Frizzle NN then you just may get one or two.

 

[dsqard]

Hey! Candling question. If I have dark and thick shelled eggs is there anything you can do to candle them? I tried using my El Cheapo (I that's a brand name in China or maybe it's a itsgonnabreaksoon?) LED flashlight with 9 LEDs. It was not bright enough to see anything. What are you successful people using?

Also, I'ver read that some of you are doing a turkey hatch next. How hard it is to hatch turkeys? Are they any different than chickens? Where could I procure turkey eggs from? I've only ever raised on, a broad breasted bronze. I'd love to try a midget white or six!

One thing that I do to candle the darker shelled eggs is to candle from top and bottom at the same time. I put the egg I am going to candle on my "redneck" candler and then take a mag light and shine that in from the top. Works pretty good. You can also get a much higher lumens light to see into the darker shells.
Hatching turkeys is pretty similar to chickens only it takes an extra week to do it. I saw in a post some time ago that they take 80% humidity for lockdown and hatching. I hatched last year and didn't have it quite that high and all six hatched. As far as what breed, I prefer the heritage breeds. They take longer to get to eating size but the taste is fantastic and besides 12lbs was plenty for us at Thanksgiving and we had five for dinner and left overs.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Loooove the alpacas! Must be a showgirl lover thing, too.

Glad my eggs are doing well crazypetlady, and relieved you got a few NNs. Genetics are evil sometimes - I've hatched regular feathered chicks from NN to NN before and been utterly disappointed. I just need to get another turken roo without the bowtie and I'll be all set!

CrazyNeighborLady wandered over with her kids this afternoon, I just got done entertaining them. Her 3 (I think... honestly I have no idea, maybe 4?) year old son loves to play with my hose and water things. He could be part duck. If I had known how much he enjoyed it I would have employed him to clean and refill duck waterers long ago. He's coming over tomorrow to fill the 50 gallon duck pool after I dump and clean it. I think that's going to be the highlight of his day.

Which brings me to... he was only over here an hour and I'm exhausted. I am so not mother material. I like my kids to be able to be locked in their coop at night, diaper-free. And if they act out, they're delicious and CPS doesn't come to investigate.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

PS if it makes anyone feel better, I haven't candled yet and it's not on my agenda for anytime soon.

 

[Razadia]

It's taken the better part of the day to get caught up. I had a moment last night when I went to collect eggs. I walked in the coop with an 18 egg carton and walked out laughing hysterically. Broodies. Three of them to be exact. I got about 3 feet from the coop and face-palmed. Here we go again.

ETA: This happens to be very unusual. We've had two broodies at once before, but never three. One of them isn't quite a year old yet and she's serious as a heart attack.

 

[Cynthia12]

I don't think I can do a hatch cam this time around- the eggs will be hatching at my son's preschool. I'm not sure if there's internet there. I'll tell you what, my hover chicken mother would be much, much happier if I could look in on them at any time. I'll ask the director if there is internet, and if so, if she'd let me set up a camera. I have a crippled old laptop (it works perfectly, but the case on it is cracked) that I could keep there. I'm going to the school today to water the eggs. I'll ask about it today. The teachers can tell me if there's internet or not, but only the director can give me permission to set up a camera.

I have decided I'm taking the eggs home for spring break- it's 9 days, and I just think it'd be better.

Oh yeah, I forgot, your eggs are at the school. Hope they say yes. And, I think that is a good idea to bring them home for spring break too.