The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Sally Sunshine]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...long-contest-12-cutest-easter-chick-s-contest


Contest #12
2013 Easter Hatch-a-long
"Cutest Easter Chick/s Contest!"


Post your most beautiful New Chick/s Photos!
All fowl accepted, No fake editing or captions!
Chicks in your images MUST be hatched from eggs entered in the 2013 EASTER Hatch-A-Long!
Please don't compromise chicks by opening the incubator for pics!
The winner will be chosen by a panel of judges

2 entries per contestant

ENTRY DEADLINE
April 6th, 2013 Midnight PST




The Prize:
One Dozen “Rarest of the Rare” Dozen Hatching Eggs!
donated by Greenfire Farms
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Possible breeds for the winner: Red Orpingtons, Partridge Barthuners, Double Blue Laced Barnevelders, Bielefelders, New Bloodline Cream Legbars, Blue Partridge Brahmas

*Breed choice will be made by Greenfire Farms depending on availability
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Rules:
Open to BYC members in the Continental U.S. Only
Must be your picture of chick/s hatched from the 2013 Easter Hatch-A-Long
Maximum of 2 entries per member
All Fowl breeds are accepted
No fake editing or Captions
Deadline for entry is April 6th at midnight PST
TONIGHT!!!

 

[chirpingcricket]

Hey, didn't see my numbers listed. Set 35, hatched 12, guessed 3433 on total hatches.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...tch-a-long-contest-10-uk-members-only-contest

Contest #10
2013 Easter Hatch-a-long

UK Member’s Only Contest

Thanks to a very generous donation, we are excited to Announce a contest for UK members!

This contest has 2 categories and a winner will be chosen for each category


Candid Picture of Your Flock and Baby Chick Contest

Give us your funniest flock moments and your cutest chick moments!!!!

One winner for each category will be chosen by a panel of judges

New Chick Photo Prize:
6 Blue-Red and Black-Red Araucana Eggs

Candid Picture Prize:
New Copy of Chickopedia - Hens & Cockerels, Facts & Fiction by Charlotte Popescu


Both prizes donated by Time-Out

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Rules:
Both categories of this contest are open to UK members ONLY
Must be your own picture
Maximum 2 entries for each category of the contest per member
No fake editing or captions
New Chick Hatched must be a picture of a chick less than 1 month old and taken within the last 6 months to April 1, 2013
Candid picture of your flock must be taken within the last 6 months to April 1, 2013
Deadline to enter is April 6th, 2013 PST
TONIGHT!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ch-a-long-contest-6-broodies-and-their-babies
Contest #6

Broodies and their babies!

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Who doesn’t love seeing a mother hen with her chicks? Show us your best pictures of your Broody Hen and her babies.

The winner will be chosen by a panel of judges

The Prize:
One Dozen “Rarest of the Rare” day old chicks
donated by Greenfire Farms
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Possible breeds for the winner: Red Orpingtons, Partridge Barthuners, Double Blue Laced Barnevelders, Bielefelders, New Bloodline Cream Legbars, Blue Partridge Brahmas

*Breed choice will be made by Greenfire Farms depending on availability

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Rules:
Open to all BYC members in the Continental U.S.
Maximum of 2 entries per member
No fake editing or Captions - Only hens doing what comes naturally
Must be your picture of your hen and chicks
Deadline for entry is April 6th at midnight PST

 

[mlm Mike]

Hey, didn't see my numbers listed. Set 35, hatched 12, guessed 3433 on total hatches.

It looks like your eggs were set outside of the +/- 2 days to be counted towards the total set/total hatch. Your guess is in the database.

 

[Sueg4332]

didn,t see total hatched set 113 hatched 90

 

[TMNfarm]

Stubby will be fine - the biggest problem will be defending himself from the others. But since you are building him his own coop he will be good. We had this happen to a full grown rooster quite a few years ago when we had the long weeks of way below 0 temps (-40s). The other roosters hadn't let him into the coop a couple of nights and when we finally figured it out his frostbite had been too bad. He walked on his stubs and got around just fine. He lived on my sister's little hobby farm for 5 years before she had problems with a weasel in their barn and lost him and a bunch of her other chickens. The weasel didn't touch any of the birds that were not red. Good luck with Stubby!

Thanks! That actually gives me some hope for him...

I've been roooting for him from the get go! (please let us know his progress!)

Thanks!! Me too...

So I already entered this in the cute Easter chicks contest, but had to share it here cause it is too precious. This is my niece Sarah. I thought it would be immeasurable fun to let her play with some of the chicks from the hatch on Easter Sunday and take some photos (and cause my sister really wanted some good photos of her). Oh boy, the sheer excitement of it was almost too much. The face she is doing here we in my family call "bird lips" which I though went well with the chicks. You can see her just exploding with excitement. Couldn't hardly get her to sit still and she kept picking them up by their heads - good thing they are a lot sturdier than they look. I have a few others where they climbed up into her lap, but by that point, she was getting tired of sitting still so the facial expressions are not quite as good. Can't ask for more from an 8mo old though.

Too cute!!

What happened!!!!

When I first put Prim and her chicks back into the main coop, they somehow got locked out of the coop overnight and it was really cold. He frostbit both of his feet and they died and fell off. :'(

 

[seventreesfarm]

I hatched 25 out of 50 set, 35 went into lockdown. Not bad for half of them being shipped eggs, and the other half being fathered by a 5 month old roo.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Thanks! That actually gives me some hope for him...
Thanks!! Me too...
Too cute!!
When I first put Prim and her chicks back into the main coop, they somehow got locked out of the coop overnight and it was really cold. He frostbit both of his feet and they died and fell off. :'(

OH NO!!!! I was watching about Prim's babies but must have missed this part. Poor little boy!!!

 

[Time-Out]

Well, I lost me assisted hatch today.

She had a bump on her naval that never went down. Quite honestly, I was surprised she made it a week (almost). I noticed this morning that the naval bump made a shelf for poop to stick to. I cleaned her up today (poop only), but it seemed like the bump was worse...like it had been leaking. It was kinda crusty like dried honey. I left it alone & just sprayed it with Vetericyn. I had to run some errands today & she was gone when I got home. I had just decided to call her Button too...as in belly button. Really sux.

I'm so sorry to hear this. It's looking like I'm going to have to put down one or two chicks tonight. The one with the sack just spends its time standing, with its eyes closed, cheeping loudly. It looks like it's in a lot of pain. It's making me sick to see it so uncomfortable, but I don't know what else to do. Maybe our babies just weren't meant to be

I find it harder to put something out of its misery than to kill for any other reason. I think it's because it means I've failed.