The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Gardeningmama]

I want goats so bad!!!

x2. I will have goats next year!! Was gonna be this years project, but I decided to try ducks out first!

 

[Ridgeline Hens]

We have a nice breeding pair of Black Cochins, here is a shot from the 4-H fair last fall of the cockerel . We will set 6 eggs

 

[Gardeningmama]

We have a nice breeding pair of Black Cochins, here is a shot from the 4-H fair last fall of the cockerel . We will set 6 eggs

Oooohhh Pretty!

 

[Gardeningmama]

How many times do you have to post before you can post pics on BYC?

 

[Ridgeline Hens]

Above the the reply field box are several icons, one of which is an "add image" icon.

And as far as the wanting goats, goes, we are looking forward to have lambs born about the same time the eggs are in the icubator.

 

[JoyfulPromise]

All these cute chick and duckling pics are making me SO eager to hatch my own!

I am going to start collecting eggs this week, probably around the first of March. Our laying hens had a spectacular (for February) laying week last week! We have a total of 44 hens (two coops, a mixed flock of 32 hens with Delaware roo and an EE flock of 11 hens with 1 BCM hen and EE Roo). Last week they had several record days for this year so far, with one super day when the EE coop laid 12, for 100%, and the main coop had 20, for a total of 32 eggs! That is 73% of all our hens! Woohoo!

Their week total was 187 eggs, which comes out to about 61%, still not bad for February, at least much better than our flock did last year!

For hatching I am only going to be collecting some EE eggs, and some Delaware eggs(we only have 4 Delaware hens in the main coop), and possibly a couple of eggs from our 1 BCM hen for olive eggers!

April is going to be a VERY EXCITING month for my family, as we will not only have the chicks I am hatching in the hatch-along, but we have an order from McMurray coming on the 8th of April, for some more BOs and a couple of SLWs (yay!), and then on the week of the 15th we are getting in 100 cornish broiler chicks for my brother's meat chicken business(those go in two huge brooders in the garage), and THEN on the week of the 22nd we are getting an order from Cackle with 8 BBW turkeys(our first time with turkeys!) and 12 Welsh Harlequin and Anacona ducks for my sister's laying duck flock! Somehow we will find room for all of them...

Until then I will just have to live vicariously through all your cute hatchling pictures.... *sigh*

 

[cluck-cluck]

arent they so cute?? all grown up now though.. I bottle fed them last december, intending to eat them when they grew up since they were Billies. LOL that didnt work out. I got too attached!

Oh how sweet!

Pic overload today!

We hatched two of our own Black Cochin!
This is the first with Harmony..... (she is loving her fake nails daddo put on her LOL)




And this guy was hatched with an infection and big round belly, glad I already knew everything about it!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/mushy-chick-disease-yolk-sack-infection-omphalitis




After I put vetericyn on his belly and navel I set him in a cup so he could stay upright
he was having a terrible time staying upright with that ball!



Lockdown Blue/Splash Amercauna, our cochin and a silkie



A Frizzle Serama





And the new TINY OMG TINY sprites!! Button Quail!! already spittin eggs out!

They're all gorgeous, and so is your daughter, hope the little bubble belly pulls through! Couldn't be in better hands!!

Well my husband is looking at incubator plans so we can have more than one and is talking about building multiple coops for breeding our own birds. I think he has been bitten by the hatching bug.

I love how my husband has become more interested in animal husbandry lately. I really think that if the conditions are right (IE, we have a bit o money) he'd let us move to the country finally, and I'd be so happy!!!

Thank you! My lil girl Harmony

The chick is Very energetic just keeps rolling to back at times because of belly... belly looks a tad smaller, after checking him I put him back in the cup will check in two hours and put him in the brooder to see how he walks again and keep trying!

he makes it!

LOL! My birthday is March 31st, Easter this year. I keep hinting to DH that I want/need a new incubator. We'll see

Oh, hope you get one! That'd be awesome!

We have a nice breeding pair of Black Cochins, here is a shot from the 4-H fair last fall of the cockerel . We will set 6 eggs

Wow, good looking bird! Is that your daughter? She is also good looking young lady! Congratulations to her for the bird and to you for the lovely daughter!

Above the the reply field box are several icons, one of which is an "add image" icon.

And as far as the wanting goats, goes, we are looking forward to have lambs born about the same time the eggs are in the icubator.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww! Too lovely! Me want too, but me trying to control urges! My husband said the other day "you know, we could keep a goat in our backyard...." I had to REALLY be mature and decline, as we do have neighbors that I'm pushing at the moment, LOL. (city folk!)

 

[Gardeningmama]

How many times do you have to post before you can post pics on BYC?

Above the the reply field box are several icons, one of which is an "add image" icon.

And as far as the wanting goats, goes, we are looking forward to have lambs born about the same time the eggs are in the icubator.

No, not for me. A gal on another thread says she can't get any pics to post. She has only posted 24 times, and I couldn't remember how many times you had to post before BYC would allow you to post pics?

 

[cochins1088]

After seeing all of the cute duckling photos, I figured that I should post one of my own. Here is one of my black east indie ducklings that I recieved on Valentines day. They are now a week and a half old and they're huge! I can't believe how fast these little guys grow!

 

[tadpole98]

I want goats so bad!!!

ours kid in a few days. So excited!!