The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Jessshan8]

We passed 100,000 last year as I remember!

177,994 and still going!!!!!!!

 

[CayuseRanch]

Yes Wisher1000, but these chicks will be 4 weeks old by the end of MARCH, and we like to get our chicks outside around that age if at all possible, and there is almost NO WAY that is happening up here in Michigan, unless we have one of those crazy 80 F weeks in March like we did last year, and we are all praying against that because it RUINED the apple production last year!

Oh well, I am afraid I will just have to wait until the Hatch-along starts, and tell myself it will be all the more exciting when it FINALLY arrives...

If only we had a big old barn... I wouldn't mind keeping extra chicks out there while they grew older...

Sounds like a contest idea to me...Will JoyfulPromise set eggs before the "official" set date and how many can that LG hold lol
Pst...bathroom works well for brooder area for me until they can go outside.

 

[coldupnorth]

Quote: I bake bread all the time and have refined the recipes I use for competition. What are you looking for; white, wheat, sweet or "other"?

And you can solve the fairy house problem with a bread machine. Just use the dough cycle, dump the dough out into a bread pan, let it rise a second time and bake it yourself in the oven. No one will know you didn't do the whole thing by hand!

Deb
DOLP

yeah put in pans! he he he

A good white fluffy bread that is delish without anything on it!! mmmmmm my pop used to bring some home from the auction once a week!! miss those little cute loafs!
Okay, BRB with my absolute favorite white bread recipe. So far it's been unbeaten at my fair.

Deb
Yummmmmm....... I would love to get this recipe; I might be able to talk the hubby into a small barn if I fed him homemade bread

He loves it and I don't make it nearly enough.

 

[tadpole98]

Quote: Im confused, where was this?

 

[Wisher1000]

Hey Jess! Any word on your eggs?

 

[Arielle]

To interrupt the baking lessons...

So last week I bought a used Little Giant Styrofoam incubator from a Craigslist ad. We drove an hour to get it, it looked pretty good and it included the egg turner AND the Fan kit! For only $60!

Today I took it apart and scrubbed and sterilized the bottom, the wire screen, the plastic egg holders (it has the old kind that come off the turner) and anything else that could be washed.
I set it up on a card table in a back room and plugged it in. I stuck a plastic "dollar store" thermometer on top of the egg holders on the turner, so it would be about egg height. The thermometer also has a small plastic hydrometer on the bottom. The incubator has been on for over 2 hours now, and with my frequent checks, the temp went straight up to 100 F exactly, and the hydrometer has settled around 44% humidity. Everything looks great so far! Hurray!!!! I will leave it on overnight to see how it stays, but I am very pleased for now. I didn't fiddle with the thermostat at all, just kept it at the place where the previous owners had marked it, and it seems to be just about perfect. I am getting another thermometer/hydrometer soon, a digital one with a probe so I can keep it on the outside of the 'bator.

Oh this is so exciting!!! I dont know HOW I am going to wait another whole MONTH to set eggs!!!!!!!!

Sorry--he he he-- if you need eggs I have plenty if you want a trial run before set day!!!! I did the calc and plan to fit in a batch before set day!!

 

[jbarrett]

Sounds like a contest idea to me...Will JoyfulPromise set eggs before the "official" set date and how many can that LG hold lol
Pst...bathroom works well for brooder area for me until they can go outside.

I us my bathroom as well! and we are in a small mobile home so there is not much space! but for chickens ill make do!

 

[Arielle]

Quote: GOOD ONE WISHER !!!!

 

[Arielle]

Is anyone else having problems with the "multi" quote button disappearing. Sometimes it's there sometimes not.

It's driving me crazy. I just went to the bottom and hit the desktop and they came back. That is the third time today I had to do this.

Yup! Been happening for a few weeks for me. Makes me be patient. Sometimes.

 

[Arielle]

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