The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Arielle]

Good Morning

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The sun is shiningb rightly here!! THe temps will quickly rise from 4 to mid 20's and feel like a heat wave!!

 

[Marthab1953]

Good Morning

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Good morning! Love your picture.

 

[Flowers of Abba]

I have a question for those of you doing staggered hatches: How do you manage your brooders/space?

Last year I hatched and brooded one batch at a time, but this year I expect to be setting eggs every week. Do I need a brooder for each batch? How long can pass between the first chick hatched and the last one you can safely add to that brooder?

I use stackable totes. ( clear) as brooders. This way there is always an extra available to grab out of the garage if a baby is getting picked on or the age span is to great ( a set of three week olds won't be gentle on 3 day olds)... Until I can see that they're playing nice and start putting them together to grow out. It's also serves as an easy way to set up emergency pens.

 

[Caitlin_VT]

I'm really hoping that the weather will warm up and the girls will start laying more... Slackers! And of course the first year that I have my own eggs to hatch

.... Well, if I get any!

 

[ronott1]

The sun is shiningb rightly here!! THe temps will quickly rise from 4 to mid 20's and feel like a heat wave!!

It is 52here with a slight cloud cover. The sun is not up yet as it is 5:52 Pacific Time.

 

[chicken pickin]

The sun is shiningb rightly here!! THe temps will quickly rise from 4 to mid 20's and feel like a heat wave!!

LOL Im glad your feeling the heat

My internal thermometer must be broken. Can anyone fix that

. I wanna feel the heat wave.

 

[Searsmom]

Their names are "red wild chicken" and "brown wild chicken"!

Oh that's too funny!!!

I always wondered what was their "real" habitat.

Good luck hatchers!

 

[CibolaChooks]

Good morning everyone.

Chicken Pickin where did you get your spitz

 

[CibolaChooks]

Its been really warm here. I got 22 eggs from my 26 layers. Yaya

 

[MontanaDolphin]

I have ancona ducks & rainbow layeers available.

Umm, stupid question, but what's a rainbow layer?