The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[wolftracks]

<*snort!*> Now, whoever captioned that photo is as twisted and crazy as me, because that's FUNNY and oddly perfect.

I thought so too. LOL

Waiting to see if I have enough eggs to sell again today. 3 bators going and I'm not going to wait and waste them. Leaving either in the morning or friday morning for LA. Gonna be gone till sunday or early monday.

 

[tadpole98]

Quote: Yep!!

 

[Cynthia12]

I just candled some eggs today and found that they were developing

, BUT I noticed that most of the ones that were developing had a broken or detached air cell.

So I don't know what to do...should I keep them....get rid of them...I have never hatched before so I need some help from experienced peeps. How would the air cell mess up affect the chicks hatching or developing?

Don't get rid of them if they are developing! I've had many an egg with the air sac half way up the side of an egg, and it hatched fine. Good luck..have fun!

 

[Shellz]

Cots are holding back on the eggs. Then again these are the youngsters so I'm waiting to see if they cough them up. In the meantime Maybe I should raise these

OMG! How cute & funny!

 

[Maah]

Woo hoo!! Got to play dress up with my chickens! I did a crown for our princess hen, and for our rooster. My kids came home and pretty much rolled their eyes at me and said "mom's turning the chickens into live barbies". He He He... Yup!

I stared both crowns with a pile of what I call "toybox trash"... anything that settles at the bottom of the toybox & is pretty much junk. I used scissors & hot glue for everything.


For the Hen:

From the pile I used a milk cap ring, some junk thin clear plastic (what my computer mouse came in), and an old barbie dress.

I used the milk ring as the base, wrapped & trimmed the plastic around it to form a "princess cone"... hot glued into place:



I cut up the barbie dress (which had a print satin, a netting, and a ribbon... perfect!), and covered the cone with the satin. Added the veiling on the top, and lined it with the ribbon along the bottom. More hot glue...

Finished product:



And now being modeled by our Barred Rock hen "Omelet" (& my daughter). She's actually the hen that donated the eggs for our hatch-a-long!... so we'll be seeing her babies later.

 

[Maah]

For the rooster's crown... I started with the same pile of "toybox trash".

From the pile I used an empty plastic tube that my son got little animals in, an old plastic "gumball machine" toy that seemed "mirror'ish" shiny, some twix wrappers (yes I found it in his messy box **rolls eyes**, but it was shiny and I figured I might make use of it), and some aluminum foil.

I started with the tube from the animals. Cut it in half and "spiked" across the top, and then covered it in the foil (of course I used hot glue! LOL):




Then I took the shiny gumball machine, and broke a big chunk off, and then cut it into tiny "diamonds, squares, triangle" whatever little pieces with the scissors:


I glued all the little "jewels" to the crown with my trusty glue gun... "mosaic style".



Then I cut strips of gold (from the twix wrappers) to trim the bottom of the crown.


Finished product:


And now modeled by our Light Brahma Rooster "Big Daddy" (the big daddy of our hatch-a-long eggs!)...


It didn't seem to bother him wearing it AT ALL! He was probably thinking... "Gee, it's about time they got it right!"

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!

 

[Smithyard Farm]

i have an egg peeping... not pipping... just peeping... is that normal? i didn't know you could hear then before hatching. and its just 1 out of 7....

 

[Shellz]

That's cute, Maah! Your birds are tamer than mine! I wouldn't be able to get away with that. Good sports your birds are!

 

[Shellz]

i have an egg peeping...  not pipping... just peeping... is that normal?  i didn't know you could hear then before hatching.  and its just 1 out of 7....

Totally normal! So much fun to listen to! Enjoy!