The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Shellz]

No can has No fence yet. Sigh!

 

[tadpole98]

GOOD MONDAY MORNING!! looks like another wet one here in mid Ga.

We did need the rain. In the last 3 weeks I have had 13.5 inches of it. Everyone is having septic issues. Last year it was dry wells.

12 inches of snow here, we are getting 18 inches MORE and i think, 5 inches of sleet?

 

[Shellz]

Delisha, I love your philosophies on raising your poultry! Beautiful birds too! If I'm ever in Wisconsin, would you sell me some hatching eggs? Looks like you've got a great thing going there! Keep up the great work!

 

[Gardeningmama]

12 inches of snow here, we are getting 18 inches MORE and i think, 5 inches of sleet?

You'd probably smack me for saying this, but DH and I were just saying last night that this winter has been really crappy. Just cold, cold,ugly, dreary, cold, but no snow. At least a good snow would break up the monotony. I wouldn't want it all the time, but one good snow would be nice. The most we had once this year was about 2-3 inches, the rest has been dustings. Okay, now you can smack me..

 

[delisha]

Delisha, I love your philosophies on raising your poultry! Beautiful birds too! If I'm ever in Wisconsin, would you sell me some hatching eggs? Looks like you've got a great thing going there! Keep up the great work!

Anytime! I will have eggs available to people who understand good stewardship for our birds.

 

[mstricer]

Quote: We are supposed to get that crap tomorrow. Good for me it's my day off.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Thought I would post a few picks of the variety of colors I get from the Muscoveys

This is my breeding stock

These are feed out chicks from my stock ..the chicks feather fast because I do not heat as hot as other do..these chicks are a few days old.

This is a young cockerel my DH liked and wanted me to keep..I still have him but he is a cull..He is huge for his age, just lacking in chest.

More scovy pics and a few baby ducks

This is a really old chicken..she was laying regular at the age of 7. I hated to cull her but at her age I did not want her to fall ill. She was giving up feathering after molt to continue to lay..

These were her last chicks. I kept one.

This is the grand daddy of them all..He was a big bird..I have a picture of him later in this group
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This field is planted with Oregano, spinach, kale, squash, and pumpkin for the birds..it looks like this in late fall..they live in this field.

Grandaddy..that is a cake pan..he weighed over 12 lbs after butcher. and was delicious at his advanced age. I slow roasted him just like a turkey.

Love all the pictures. That is one big bird in that pan! I don't raise my chicks as hot as most do either, and they do fine.

You'd probably smack me for saying this, but DH and I were just saying last night that this winter has been really crappy. Just cold, cold,ugly, dreary, cold, but no snow. At least a good snow would break up the monotony. I wouldn't want it all the time, but one good snow would be nice. The most we had once this year was about 2-3 inches, the rest has been dustings. Okay, now you can smack me..

Well, come to CA - we haven't had much of a winter. Snow a couple weeks ago for 1 day, then it melted. Other than that, we haven't had any rain since December. It probably means we'll get the nastiest storm of all in May.

 

[tadpole98]

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this is our first snow of the year. its at the end of february!! i thought it was supposed to be getting warmer.. and no more snow.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Our First Black Cochins and update on "bubba" the round belly!

Both are doing good so far! running around chirping away!!

LOVE middle WHITE feathered toes!! LOL





Bubba had first 2 POOS! Green Meconium Poo !! YAY Good sign!







Look at those TOES!!!

 

[CayuseRanch]

Here in Oklahoma we are currently getting 2-3 inches of rain which is supposed to be followed by 3-7 inches of snow. Yuck. Didn't the ground hog predict an early spring? I think I was planting my garden this time last year.

We are T- 12 days until set day!


Since we are all thinking about our eggs I figured it was time for a Chicken Egg Fact:

A female chick is born with thousands of tiny ova, which are undeveloped yolks. Once she reaches maturity, an ovum will be released into a canal called the oviduct and begin its journey of development. At any given time a productive hen will have eggs of several stages within her reproductive system. The eggs most recently discharged from the ovary are just tiny yolks, and the eggs farther down the oviduct are progressively larger and more developed