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

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YES!!! my chickens started laying again. they took an (extended) break but I got three beautiful eggs this morning! good, as long as they keep this up I can add some of my own eggs to my incubators for the hatch a long.
Lucky. Your own eggs. I'm working on that for this. :) Those are nice big eggs. Will that middle one .. if a pullet, give an Olive Color? Can't quite tell by the photo if that is a mint green, or a light Olive. Very pretty. Those girls sure started laying big after a break!
 
Lucky. Your own eggs. I'm working on that for this. :) Those are nice big eggs. Will that middle one .. if a pullet, give an Olive Color? Can't quite tell by the photo if that is a mint green, or a light Olive. Very pretty. Those girls sure started laying big after a break!
not sure what that egg color would be produced, the layer of that egg is a white hen with like, fluffy feathers around her neck. i forget all the different breeds between americauna or easter egger or what not. my flock is just mixed so pretty much every hatch is a surprise.
 
angel, that's how mine is going to be if I can keep this boy. I think I will get some sex links though, with my leghorn girls out there. I love the sex link. I was told that the one I hatched..leghorn, has the silver gene..so..I should get the red sex link.
 
Delilah looks super tiny, is she a super small bantam or is it a trick my eyes are playing on me?
Oh yeah, she's incredibly tiny. Her daddy was Andy and I'm not sure which lady was her mama, but it may have been my little Goldie, who even at 2 years old is still laying eggs that would be considered smaller than USDA small. For my July hatch, I intentionally hatched some of the smallest eggs to try to get "micro" bantams cause they are so cute. And Andy was pretty tiny himself, maybe like 18oz, and he fathered that whole bunch. There were 6 surviving chicks from the July hatch. Three hens and three cockrels. I kept only Doodle for his frizzle genes (and he won't be staying permanently as it's too hard to keep more than one roo through the summer at our house and not start to annoy the neighbors with crowing contests). Doodle had two brothers. One was a small red bantam, and one a larger reddish bantam with gold feathers on his neck and fluffy cheeks. The hens are Delilah, Sunshine (who is definately from one of my larger more Polish hens and has wonderfuly light grey feathers with almost a lavendar pattern on them) and Daisy Mae (who is black with gold pattern on some of her feathers and is the kookiest bird ever). Delilah is my smallest bird right now. She's even smaller than my smallest Belgian D'uccle Mille Fleur and they are pretty tiny.
 
mimddh..my Golden's have been great after they got out of the puppy stage. Just had my Girl our there with my today. She loves chasing the ball. The chickens, just get out of her way when she runs past them to fetch.
My two others are also good. One of them is actually afraid of the chickens. Wondering if it would be ok if I posted a photo of when he is going..potty..and there are two chickens staring him down. So funny to see. He's trying to do his business, and here comes the EE every time..and one of the sex links..they just have to bug him. He finishes, and then runs to the door.
Sounds like they are wonderful dogs.

For those who we're asking: I sampled the wine fridge/cheese cave cheddar last night. I think it came out pretty good!




Now I can have my hygrometer back for incubating! Lol
That looks really good.

I am very tempted to spend my day "window Shopping" TCS and the other local feed stores, just to look at the cute chickies.

Anyone else think that might be a bad idea.
I'm certain whenever I head to TSC my wife calls and pays them to hide the ducklings.

Nothing like real maple syrup! Definitely on my learn to do homesteading list. And bees. So many projects, so little time. Lol
Real maple syrup is delicious. Bees are on my list,too.

I have 5 UofA blues out this morning. One of the UofA X Crele Pene Olive Eggers is nearly out.

I have two Black, one blue and two Splash so far.

Genetically, I should wind up with less splash. I have a Blue cockerel covering two Splash and Two blue pullets.

I will get pictures when I can.

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Yes! I love the character of his look. His personality is great also.
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My Frizzle (Snoodle) is such a smart and sweet bird!!!
And the little fuzz butts I bought yesterday are already friendly and curious (and total loud mouths lol)



These will not be too dark of a green color. My Partridge Pene pullets lay much darker eggs.

I am working with Partridge for the Penedesenca Project.

My Cockerel and his girls:


Beautiful chickens, ron!!! I hope to have such beautiful birds!!!
 
My Frizzle (Snoodle) is such a smart and sweet bird!!!
And the little fuzz butts I bought yesterday are already friendly and curious (and total loud mouths lol)

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Beautiful chickens, ron!!! I hope to have such beautiful birds!!!
If I did not hatch them, I wold not have them either!

They are from My fly Babies.

The Partridge Eggs are fertile now and so people want them.

@Cynthia12 I like the wheaten too. I may work with them next year. She is in the layer flock now so that I can get the Pita Pintas in a pen together.
 
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Oh yeah, she's incredibly tiny. Her daddy was Andy and I'm not sure which lady was her mama, but it may have been my little Goldie, who even at 2 years old is still laying eggs that would be considered smaller than USDA small. For my July hatch, I intentionally hatched some of the smallest eggs to try to get "micro" bantams cause they are so cute. And Andy was pretty tiny himself, maybe like 18oz, and he fathered that whole bunch. There were 6 surviving chicks from the July hatch. Three hens and three cockrels. I kept only Doodle for his frizzle genes (and he won't be staying permanently as it's too hard to keep more than one roo through the summer at our house and not start to annoy the neighbors with crowing contests). Doodle had two brothers. One was a small red bantam, and one a larger reddish bantam with gold feathers on his neck and fluffy cheeks. The hens are Delilah, Sunshine (who is definately from one of my larger more Polish hens and has wonderfuly light grey feathers with almost a lavendar pattern on them) and Daisy Mae (who is black with gold pattern on some of her feathers and is the kookiest bird ever). Delilah is my smallest bird right now. She's even smaller than my smallest Belgian D'uccle Mille Fleur and they are pretty tiny.

Oh, she looks it. =D
I don't have a scale to weight it, but Snoodle's egg was pretty small; the size of a pullet egg I got from one of my Leghorns.
My plan is to keep only smooth roos for now; Snoodle is my favorite and I don't want to risk frazzles.
I like lavender!!!
I think I'll try hatching super small eggs too!!! Great idea! =)
 
I always say that when she changes it, but she always ends up putting it back eventually, lol. And Montana Dolphin's been on here for a bit..and did the New Years Hatch-A-Long with us.
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I had like 200 posts to catch up on when getting on, so I finally figured out that everyone is changing their avy's to include a self portrait. It's funny how we mentally picture someone online then see them and it doesn't match at all. For instance, gardeningmama, I pictured you more as a a gardening"grandmama", so your pic of a pretty young lady threw me for a loop lol.

I would join the crowd on the avatar changes, but I couldn't find any pictures that I like, mostly because I haven't taken any pics I like since ohhhhhhh say highschool.

A man and his ladies Hunkered down to keep warm last week in the single digits, DH sent this to my cell today he forgot he took it!
I love it!

Absolutely love this pic Sally! Such variety in color and texture of the chickens! It belongs on a magazine cover or calendar cover.

ok last picture- here is my favorite photo I got last year. It is eli behind dusty. I have titled it "periscopes UP!"

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I kept looking and looking at this pic, trying to figure it out and finally realized that is 2 chickens lol.
 
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