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

[ronott1]

Any one else have brooder cry babies?

For me, it's almost always an Ameraucana. All of the chicks can be sound asleep, the cry baby will wake up and start chirping as loudly as possible because it thinks it's alone cuz all the others are laying their lifeless. Crazy cry babies....

One of my EO Basque chicks chips loudly until I go into the room where the brooder is an then quiets down. I am not sure which on it is, but I think the Chick misses me.

This morning I had to lift the Ecoglow to make sure they were all ok in there....

Ron

Edited to add: The chicks are in the walk in closet off of my bedroom. One of them woke me up about 3 am. I turned on the light to check on them, and they rushed out to eat and drink. Maybe the chick just wanted more food? These guys are eaters.

 

[Wisher1000]

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LOL! That is exactly what I thought....seriously........what is that?

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She is a cutie-pie! I love the face! Talk about your MAJOR Stink Eye! That caption should read,

"You think I'm playing. Get me out of this fake egg and get me some buddies, and I mean NOW!"

 

[ChestnutRidge]

I only had one baby actually hatch on Easter... and here he/she is... and here is my entry for Cutest Easter Chick...

That is so stinkin' cute.

Great photo, too!!!


I am pretty pumped because, out of the 10 eggs I sent to Arizona for the swap, 9 hatched!!!

I had 2 roosters over 9 hens, fed them a breeder supplement I mixed for a few weeks before collecting eggs like we discussed, candled them before shipping as not to send porous eggs, and packed them following the Meeks Method. I am really pleased that it paid off.

My chicks are a bunch of little feathered pigs.

They love scratching around in their food and LOVE their clump of sod that I put in the brooder as per ChooksChick's suggestion. I will definitely be using that idea from now on. It gives them something to pick at, scratch in, climb on, and so forth and I am sure they are building up healthy immunities and getting some healthy bacteria in their gut.

 

[Grumpypantsmomma]

Grumpy,

I think I have two pics submitted by you. Which one is your official entry?

I commented on Sueg4332 photo before it was submitted as entry # 8 the picture of the chicks in the glass easter egg, are you referring to that. otherwise I only submitted 1 entry this pic

 

[Sphinx]

I'm giggling over how mad that chick looks over being in that plastic egg. "I just got out of one of these, and you put me back in?!"


Today is my day 21, and when I went to check on my eggs at the school this morning, TWO had pipped. Oddly enough, one was a marans egg, which I was sure was going to be the last to hatch because it just looked behind.

 

[Arielle]

I ended up with 21 chicks of 24 eggs set. So an 88% hatch rate. When is the Turkey hatchalong?? I have turkey eggs coming in the mail sometime this week, but they may be late. Update on my son: He is doing better and finally able to have jello, broth, and juice after having nothing for four days. He may be able to come home tomorrow. That would mean I can too lol been here since Fri, so ready to sleep.

for a swift recovery. and

for sleep for you!

We have started the turkey hatch a thon, some participants are not setting until today.

 

[Cynthia12]

Is there dog poo in there?

I was kind of wondering the same thing.

 

[Noncentzter]

I'm a few days behind and it is very difficult to catch up on this thread! I'm back on page 1000 working my way forward...

 

[rarely bored]

I only had one baby actually hatch on Easter... and here he/she is... and here is my entry for Cutest Easter Chick...

AWWWW!

 

[mlm Mike]

Last duckling finally hatched. My total hatched was 14, I entered it into the form with the link in the first post.