The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Toast n Jelly]

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Now that's addiction .
Does she have a web site? Love to see that!

 

[tadpole98]

Quote: Oh she wish she had eggs.. I steal them from her every night. If she waits one more week I am going to set.

 

[tadpole98]

Happy valentines day!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

My chicks are set to hatch today! Happy Valentines Day! I have not had any pipping or anything Im Worried......

Good luck! Can you hear them cheeping? If your temps are a bit low, they'll be a little late. Mine hatch tomorrow.

I woke up to a box of Jelly Belly's and a reciept for a doz hatching eggs!!!!!!

Best gift EVER!

I posted on my hatching thread but just had to share here! I had two pip yesterday and were there at 5am this morning One of my Rouen Ducks is pipping now I hope it comes today and can be a Valentine duck! Other than those though no pips out of the other 23 eggs! However, I can't stay away and keep checking LOL I will get nothing accomplished today. Here is a pic of my two babies they are silkie/frizzle chicks!

They have alot of yellow on their faces and tips of wings and underside that you can't see in the pic! Hopefully will have a better pic later!

Congrats!

I'm waiting for my Olive egger to start back up from her molt. Silly girl is taking her darn sweet time!

I think I'm gonna get the bator out and give it a try as well as have eggs under a broody hen for the hatch a long. Did have a question though. how long can we hold eggs before putting the in the bator or under the hen? is it 2 weeks?

Roughly 10 days.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I posted on my hatching thread but just had to share here! I had two pip yesterday and were there at 5am this morning One of my Rouen Ducks is pipping now I hope it comes today and can be a Valentine duck! Other than those though no pips out of the other 23 eggs! However, I can't stay away and keep checking LOL I will get nothing accomplished today. Here is a pic of my two babies they are silkie/frizzle chicks!

They have alot of yellow on their faces and tips of wings and underside that you can't see in the pic! Hopefully will have a better pic later!

we love silkie frizzles!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

HERE IS a great NEW Article written by Marty on BYC! https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/just-the-facts-avain-influenza Very interesting read when she had her NPIP test results!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Is there an egg swap for this hatchalong?

Feb/March Egg Swap that will go with this hatch.

Click on the link EGG SWAP PAGE​

 

[pysankigirl]

Isn't it silly how exciting such a simple thing as eggs can be? The rest of the world just doesn't know what they're missing out on. BTW I'm just as excited for those Barnie eggs as you are for the Dorkings!! Butterflies!

LOL-
I'm so glad you are happy! I have a brooder with 2-day old baby barnies in it right now and they are the most adorable things. But I will feel that way about the dorking chicks when they are the ones in the Brooder, too!!!

My fiance just went to get the wood to build me a brooder for inside because our doggies are not chicken friendly so rubbermaids on the floor aren't safe and my batch is starting to hatch today! I can't wait for it to be finished!!!

What a nice Fiance!!!!

Okay, I'll go first because I love to dream. And BTW I have every intention on it coming true! I want a pond, with Sebastopol Geese. A peacock that's always perched on top of the coops. An outdoor duck aviary with ornamental ducks especially Mandarins, and of course the awesome chickens I already have, but more. A huge barn with many pens, brooding stations, and an enormous incubator filled with eggs and a line at my front door of the people wanting the chicks that hatch! Yep, that about covers it!

That's a lovely dream!!!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Click on the link EGG SWAP PAGE​

thanks to all

 

[Time-Out]

Wow you guys are so lucky! For Valentine's day, I got a joke about buying a horse from Tesco (there's been a scandal about hidden horse meat in burgers or something) and a subway for lunch. I'd have loved some hatching eggs, even really cheap, old ones that wouldn't hatch, but it'd have been a nice thought!

Is there a course on romance I can send my man to?