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

[Anikaanimalgirl]

Don't forget the biggest perk....You get to turn off the pop up ads! That was the first thing I did when I got mine, lol!

H!! I haven't talked to you in like forever..... HOW ARE YOU??

 

[SilkieSensation]

The first 2 pictures are of a "regular" GLW chicks wings. (laying flat and straight down her back) These 3 last pictures are "Hawk's" (another GLW chick) wings. (curled at the ends and lay curled in toward her body) Question is: Why are "Hawk's" wings so curved down like that? She is also A LOT fuller than all the others, probably because of the curved feathers? EDIT: Please ignore the messy room, my DH thinks its a good idea to leave his work clothes at the end of the bed instead of the hamper.

Looks like frizzle in reverse. Not sure what to call it but I like it!

 

[Anikaanimalgirl]

Looks like frizzle in reverse. Not sure what to call it but I like it!

love your avi!!! ha ha. .so true

 

[Hangtown Farms]

 

[luvmypets]

Everyone.. Today is hatchday for a silkie hen who has been sitting on swedish duck eggs for 4 weeks. CMON QUACKLES!

 

[luvmypets]

here she is last time. All the babies are alive and kicking.. 3 days ago.

 

[jbenson]

How big is every ones flock size?!

I've got a breeding quad of mille fleur d'Uccles (3 hens and a roo), and a breeding set of Ameraucana/Araucana banties (4 hens and 1 roo) and some backyard mix ( 1 frizzled roo and 13 hens, 4 of them frizzled). To make room for some new chicks, I will be downsizing the adult flock starting this weekend. Selling a couple of the mixed hens to a fella locally to add to his backyard flock and probably gonna give a couple of our fav 2 year old hens to a friend who has a flock just barely into the country just outside the city metro area this summer. Planning to start a more concentrated breeding program with the d'Uccles and the A/As (separately obviously) and keep a few of my most broody mix hens to help keep the eggs from freezing before they can be collected during cold months (they lay bigger eggs of a darker color so it's easy to tell which ones are theirs if they happen to lay one). Currently have 2 full brooders with 8 d'Uccles who are almost 2 weeks old (my easter HAL chicks) and the other with 5 A/As, 2 A/A crossed with frizzle roo (which are technically EE I guess then) and 4 d'Uccle cross chicks ( from the broody who is in there to keep the eggs from getting too cold)

 

[JDchicks]

5 of 6 cochin eggs have hatched.

 

[ShelbyCoral]

lol!!! I was told at 6 we had enough. ..now have 3 more in the brooder...and 50 in the bator...I might be in trouble

Chickens are like potato chips, you just can't have one.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

5 of 6 cochin eggs have hatched. 

Yay!!!!