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

[Kismet]

Believe it or not, I just found this thread. I'm hatching too, and I have 28 Ameracaunas due on April 7.

Good luck, Everyone, on your hatches!

 

[chick-among-us]

Ok so here is my 1st entry to the flapper contest!
My son an I were giving treats to the chickens and Goldie will kill herself over cabbage and Christian offered a huge piece, She just came out of nowhere... you can see her forward momentum and the shadow it all just turned out so cool I'll never get one like this again...and trust me I sat in that pen for half of a day snapping pics...and THIS one (of course) happened by coincidence...

She jumps so high! MOST of the time she doesn't even open her wings, but this time she came from nowhere!

I so LOVE the shadow~



OK 2ND entry for us!

LOOK OUT! Better watch your back around here!



Entry # 3


silkie obviously offending the d'uccle in the background with his "flight practice"
There is an entire sequence to this shot...I am not sure how to do it...I WANT to show you all the whole series of shots...ends in a face off type situation and very funny and cute..and COOL I caught it. Here is just ONE of those shots...



Silkie Flies in....Well silkie cross (d'uccle/silkie maybe) D'uccle dude in the background seems a bit puzzled.This will have to be continued...Maybe this is the beginning of my story.lol
..

 

[emvickrey]

My daughters idea of an april fools joke was to call and tell us she was pregnant. I guess she thought we forgot she got spayed almost 4 years ago. She's one that gets pregnant to get the baby's daddy to pay her living while she sleeps her life away. Pretends to have all these problems when she is just cronically lazy. After her last child I showed her a very large pair of scissors and told her if she don't get fixed i'll do it myself. She got an appt the net day and had it done. She knows when mom says something she means it. Dad's a push-over while mom isn't. Although I wouldn't actually do surgery on her, I still have that bluff on her and she's now 32 years old. She still knows not to mess with mom with her drama cause I won't listen to it. She has bi-polar and chronic depression like my mom did. So I know what my grandsons go thru when they're with her. My heart breaks when she' has her episodes. We just do ur best to get them to stay with us till she's over it so they don't have to be around all that yelling and screaming. If she's not asleep, she's either having a bi-polar episode or out running around with her friends. My middle grandson has practically raised his little brother. It just comes natural to watch out for him and take care of him.

He fixes his breakfast and lunch and supper if she don't do it and gives him his bath and gets him dressed and looks out for him all the time. When they're with us he always gets him in the car and hooks his seat belt and gets him out of the car and holds his hand when we're walking thru a parking lot or makes him get in the shopping cart while we're in the store. Every time he gets money he spends the biggest part on his little brother. He should get a "The Best Big Brother" award in my opinion. He's loved him before he was born. The oldest one is just the opposite, He would rather be an only child. He lives with his dad and has the run of the place.

It tink this is more of a rant than telling about a "Joke"

We worked in the yard most of the afternoon yesterday. We took the 2 grandsons we have fishing in the AM and had no luck. I have poison ivy all over the l. ower part of my face and neck, on my wrists, between my eyes and it's moving towards my nose. I look so odd with the pink stuff smeared on my face. On yeah it's getting on my ears too. So apparently those vines I was pulling away from the trees was poison ivy or poison oak or poison sumac. I was never allergic to any of those till last year. Oh and chiggers are out too. I know it before anybody else. They love me. feelings aren't mutual. Last year I was covered and I'm getting spots already this year. We're getting some Guinea when I can get together with the local folks that have a bunch for sale. These are 1 1/2 years old. From what i've read I need to keep them penned for a few months before I let them go to do their job. Is that true? We had some last year that we bought as teenagers and some of them disappeared for a few days and came back with 2 white males. Eventually they all ran off. One of the white males went after one of my pearl males and chased him all over the area. We tried to stop them and catch then to put in a pen but they got away. I don't know if that one ever survived the attack because we never found them. None of them ever came back.

So at 1 1/2 years old, how long should we keep them penned up? I want to drag the pen DH put together for them to the edge of the woods where they will be spending alot of their time when they are let loose. "Hopefully" they don't run off when let go.

 

[rarely bored]

We had snow yesterday. It built up a bit and then melted. I am so ready for spring and these late snow falls are ticking me off.

Oh well that's Utah for you.

lol! I loved that aspect of Utah. April and October were a weather blast! Would it be 70 degrees or snowing?

but then, we moved there from the central coast of California where we would go outside and say, "yep, the sun is shining again. gonna be another nice day." Gets rather dull after a couple of years. Definitely prefer the foothill weather to the coastal weather, but miss some of the Utah storms. Never knew lightening could go sideways for a jillion miles. Enjoy your weather for me!

 

[rarely bored]

My daughters idea of an april fools joke was to call and tell us she was pregnant. I guess she thought we forgot she got spayed almost 4 years ago. She's one that gets pregnant to get the baby's daddy to pay her living while she sleeps her life away. Pretends to have all these problems when she is just cronically lazy. After her last child I showed her a very large pair of scissors and told her if she don't get fixed i'll do it myself. She got an appt the net day and had it done. She knows when mom says something she means it. Dad's a push-over while mom isn't. Although I wouldn't actually do surgery on her, I still have that bluff on her and she's now 32 years old. She still knows not to mess with mom with her drama cause I won't listen to it. She has bi-polar and chronic depression like my mom did. So I know what my grandsons go thru when they're with her. My heart breaks when she' has her episodes. We just do ur best to get them to stay with us till she's over it so they don't have to be around all that yelling and screaming. If she's not asleep, she's either having a bi-polar episode or out running around with her friends. My middle grandson has practically raised his little brother. It just comes natural to watch out for him and take care of him.

He fixes his breakfast and lunch and supper if she don't do it and gives him his bath and gets him dressed and looks out for him all the time. When they're with us he always gets him in the car and hooks his seat belt and gets him out of the car and holds his hand when we're walking thru a parking lot or makes him get in the shopping cart while we're in the store. Every time he gets money he spends the biggest part on his little brother. He should get a "The Best Big Brother" award in my opinion. He's loved him before he was born. The oldest one is just the opposite, He would rather be an only child. He lives with his dad and has the run of the place.

It tink this is more of a rant than telling about a "Joke"

We worked in the yard most of the afternoon yesterday. We took the 2 grandsons we have fishing in the AM and had no luck. I have poison ivy all over the l. ower part of my face and neck, on my wrists, between my eyes and it's moving towards my nose. I look so odd with the pink stuff smeared on my face. On yeah it's getting on my ears too. So apparently those vines I was pulling away from the trees was poison ivy or poison oak or poison sumac. I was never allergic to any of those till last year. Oh and chiggers are out too. I know it before anybody else. They love me. feelings aren't mutual. Last year I was covered and I'm getting spots already this year. We're getting some Guinea when I can get together with the local folks that have a bunch for sale. These are 1 1/2 years old. From what i've read I need to keep them penned for a few months before I let them go to do their job. Is that true? We had some last year that we bought as teenagers and some of them disappeared for a few days and came back with 2 white males. Eventually they all ran off. One of the white males went after one of my pearl males and chased him all over the area. We tried to stop them and catch then to put in a pen but they got away. I don't know if that one ever survived the attack because we never found them. None of them ever came back.

So at 1 1/2 years old, how long should we keep them penned up? I want to drag the pen DH put together for them to the edge of the woods where they will be spending alot of their time when they are let loose. "Hopefully" they don't run off when let go.

Have you ever checked her for lyme's disease? Tiredness and mental health issues are red flags. Just asking, no need to reply.

bummers on the itchy! mango butter does wonders on poison oak rashes, if you put it on quickly, the rash will stop and fade.

 

[Melissa Rose]

My daughters idea of an april fools joke was to call and tell us she was pregnant. I guess she thought we forgot she got spayed almost 4 years ago. She's one that gets pregnant to get the baby's daddy to pay her living while she sleeps her life away. Pretends to have all these problems when she is just cronically lazy. After her last child I showed her a very large pair of scissors and told her if she don't get fixed i'll do it myself. She got an appt the net day and had it done. She knows when mom says something she means it. Dad's a push-over while mom isn't. Although I wouldn't actually do surgery on her, I still have that bluff on her and she's now 32 years old. She still knows not to mess with mom with her drama cause I won't listen to it. She has bi-polar and chronic depression like my mom did. So I know what my grandsons go thru when they're with her. My heart breaks when she' has her episodes. We just do ur best to get them to stay with us till she's over it so they don't have to be around all that yelling and screaming. If she's not asleep, she's either having a bi-polar episode or out running around with her friends. My middle grandson has practically raised his little brother. It just comes natural to watch out for him and take care of him.

He fixes his breakfast and lunch and supper if she don't do it and gives him his bath and gets him dressed and looks out for him all the time. When they're with us he always gets him in the car and hooks his seat belt and gets him out of the car and holds his hand when we're walking thru a parking lot or makes him get in the shopping cart while we're in the store. Every time he gets money he spends the biggest part on his little brother. He should get a "The Best Big Brother" award in my opinion. He's loved him before he was born. The oldest one is just the opposite, He would rather be an only child. He lives with his dad and has the run of the place.

It tink this is more of a rant than telling about a "Joke"

We worked in the yard most of the afternoon yesterday. We took the 2 grandsons we have fishing in the AM and had no luck. I have poison ivy all over the l. ower part of my face and neck, on my wrists, between my eyes and it's moving towards my nose. I look so odd with the pink stuff smeared on my face. On yeah it's getting on my ears too. So apparently those vines I was pulling away from the trees was poison ivy or poison oak or poison sumac. I was never allergic to any of those till last year. Oh and chiggers are out too. I know it before anybody else. They love me. feelings aren't mutual. Last year I was covered and I'm getting spots already this year. We're getting some Guinea when I can get together with the local folks that have a bunch for sale. These are 1 1/2 years old. From what i've read I need to keep them penned for a few months before I let them go to do their job. Is that true? We had some last year that we bought as teenagers and some of them disappeared for a few days and came back with 2 white males. Eventually they all ran off. One of the white males went after one of my pearl males and chased him all over the area. We tried to stop them and catch then to put in a pen but they got away. I don't know if that one ever survived the attack because we never found them. None of them ever came back.

So at 1 1/2 years old, how long should we keep them penned up? I want to drag the pen DH put together for them to the edge of the woods where they will be spending alot of their time when they are let loose. "Hopefully" they don't run off when let go.

Ivarest and oatmeal baths!!!!!!!
http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/iv...ampersand_Sumac_Treatment_prod4467&adtype=pla


The Ivarest is very thick and coats better than Calamine. It will stop it from spreading. Oatmeal - Quick oats about 2 cups in bath water and sit and soak and it dries it out

 

[dsqard]

we would go outside and say, "yep, the sun is shining again. gonna be another nice day." Gets rather dull after a couple of years.

Lived in AZ off and on for about 15 years. Miss that kind of "dull" weather. Grew up in the NE and do not care for winter or winter storms at all any more. Just biding my time till I can move back to AZ. Someday...........................

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Finally, after trying for the past 2 days I have caught up, I was only 500 some odd posts behind.

Here are my submissions for the flapper contest.
#1 Roy, my German New Hampshire rooster,



# 2,Soloman, my Delaware rooster,

 

[karimw]

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[sager:)silkies]

i bet that pic took alot of try