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

[jobishop]

I'll be joining the 2014 Hatch-a-long! Black cochins and buff orpington's.

 

[ronott1]

I am hatching for a local breeder. We are hatching by hen so they are separated into Beef Steak tomato containers. I think they should be called Beef Steak Dorkings!

This is three from group W33:

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I finally got around to taking pictures of my BO chicks that hatched this week. You can see they are getting wing feathers. They love to sit and sleep and poop in their food dish. DH came up to pick them up and take back to the farm in SC. He brought a feeder and water container. They figured out the feeder but still prefer the cat food tins for water.

I was just going to mention I love your avy!! looks like an antique image!! I love this pic!! would look fantastic in a old rustic wood frame!!

I would like the join the hatch-a-long!!! Going to be hatching chicken eggs with my brinsea incubator! i am so excited

I have 2 standard males and a blue male and 6 standard hens right now. (there are more hens in the flock, but not barnies) Here are some pictures of the hens.

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I am SOLD!!!!! I love that black with the rust!!! whodathunk!!! what color eggs light tan dark? pink purple red orange who cares they are lovely!! are they a large bird?

Tomorrow is set day for Call Ducks!​

CALL DUCKS!!!!!! CALLING CALL DUCKS@!@@@@@@

 

[jobishop]

Yes, I'll be joining the 2014 Hatch-a-long!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

It looks like Pheasants take 23 days to hatch? Can someone confirm that for me before I add it to the Setting list?

Pheasant

23-28 days​

 

[tnspursfan09]

Yay!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I got my FIRST duck egg today!!! She is a TSC duck sold as a blue Swedish(she looks the part but is MUCH smaller and can fly). She is 11 months old

Here she is and her first egg

YAYYAYYAY hatch hatch hatch!

Wow! That's awesome! I didn't know their eggs could change color by so much! That's very cool. Our chickens are pretty much responsible for our farm. We loved just sitting in the yard watching them and playing with them. My husband and I have three horses (we had two). We were boarding them, which was very expensive for us. We got the chickens. We had maxed out the gardening in our tiny downtown yard. Finally, we realized that if we didn't jump when real estate was at its low point and interest rates were also at their low point, we'd never be able to afford land on two teachers' salaries! (Sad thing, huh?) His parents helped us so that we could make it happen. Now our total outlay for the house + free horse board is $1,000 less than it had been at the old house (which we're renting, although not for the full cost of what the mortgage costs us.) Anyhow, we bought the only property we could find that had a "barn" (and I use that term loosely, haha) and "fencing" (although much of it last summer was what I call "green fencing"--so many layers of weeds/brush/growing stuff that even though we couldn't see the fence, the horses respected it. Once it got to be fall, we had to put up portable electric around a lot of it because it was in such bad shape. But, it's our forever home! About two weeks ago, we bought this moveable coop of of eBay (of all things) from a guy INSIDE the Philadelphia city limits (although really he was on a small plot of rural land). The coop came with two goats! (He wanted out of the whole deal.) So now we have two goats to help with brush control. We want to have chickens laying multi-colored eggs in hopes of selling the extras in a local market store. (It's really just an excuse to have more chickens that two people need!) I'm going to try to add a photo of the coop. I can't wait to paint it!

Love it!!!! We are in Pa, Berks!

I'll be joining the 2014 Hatch-a-long! Black cochins and buff orpington's.

I am hatching for a local breeder. We are hatching by hen so they are separated into Beef Steak tomato containers. I think they should be called Beef Steak Dorkings!

This is three from group W33:

Yes, I'll be joining the 2014 Hatch-a-long!

 

[chickenlisa]

I just went out to gather eggs, and one of my white Cochin hens was sitting in a nestbox, didn't budge when I dumped their food into their feeder (which always gets them up and out, and then jumping down to eat...) but she let me pet her, rub her neck for a few minutes, then stood up to let me get the 3 eggs, then plunked down again.
I'll check her later but I'm thinking she may be thinking of going B (that B word again... haha

) and that would be perfect timing for the Easter Hatch-a-long...I have eggs coming this week from the BST thread, I'm hoping to win some from Ebay today (will tell which breed after I know if I won them) and then some of my own birds' BCM and OE eggs....I could have 2 incubators running and a mama bird on some too!!!

and to think I wasn't going to hatch any this year. Nope!

 

[Pozees]

I am hatching for a local breeder. We are hatching by hen so they are separated into Beef Steak tomato containers. I think they should be called Beef Steak Dorkings!

This is three from group W33:

LOL Beef Steak Dorkings, Love it! Beautiful chicks, Ron, are these SG Dorkings?

 

[ronott1]

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LOL Beef Steak Dorkings, Love it! Beautiful chicks, Ron, are these SG Dorkings?

Yes, they are SG Dorkings from capayvalleychick.