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

[Corny Caleb]

Contest #4
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...to-contest-5th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long



Brinsea’s Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest!
5th Annual 2014 Easter Hatch-a-long!

We are looking for the cutest baby Fowl out there!

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A Panel of Judges will determine the winner!

The Prize:
Mini Advance Incubator

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Courtesy of Brinsea

www.Brinsea.com​

SEE RULES and HOW TO ENTER AT
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...to-contest-5th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long

I got this contest in the bag lol. Everyone knows that baby emu are the cutest chicks in the world. lol.

 

[sarasweatman]

Yep same. If you can make her go broody... Tell me your trick!

I put golf balls in my coop to deter egg eaters and had three chickens go broody!

 

[gryeyes]

Mimddh, Punkin was one of two hatchery chicks too young ( a bit over a year ago) to go outside when fully feathered during a cold, wet spell. Yeah, that's the story and I'm sticking to it. Anyway, by the time I put them outside, Sparkle the House Silkie (another story behind her) was going out into the fenced garden every day but coming back into the house at night and any other time of day. Sparkle was a "rescue" who had been in two other flocks but bullied and beaten up in them, so her last owner looked for somebody who would take her and let her be a house chicken. I picked her up about sixty miles away from my house, halfway between it and her last owner's property. She has hatched and raised four small broods of flock chicks in the house, since she came home with me. She takes her charges outside into the garden for their chicken lessons. Beth and Punkin figured out Sparkle was coming in and out through the door onto the deck and they decided they would come inside too, to lay their eggs in the laundry hamper. Beth joined the coop crew like a normal chicken, but Punkin spent nights inside the house. As she still does. She goes outside every morning - voluntarily - to spend the day with the flock, then comes back inside to roost at night on the audio bar on the TV set table. Hence "Part-time" House Chicken.

 

[bantambury]

I got this contest in the bag lol. Everyone knows that baby emu are the cutest chicks in the world. lol.

OH MY GOD YESSSSSS!!!!!!

I put golf balls in my coop to deter egg eaters and had three chickens go broody!

I SHOULD DO THAT!!!!! ill try and see....how fast do they go broody, and whats the difference if there is 2 eggs laid in the coop every day but they don't sit on them?

 

[Marthab1953]

Mimddh, Punkin was one of two hatchery chicks too young ( a bit over a year ago) to go outside when fully feathered during a cold, wet spell. Yeah, that's the story and I'm sticking to it. Anyway, by the time I put them outside, Sparkle the House Silkie (another story behind her) was going out into the fenced garden every day but coming back into the house at night and any other time of day.

Sparkle was a "rescue" who had been in two other flocks but bullied and beaten up in them, so her last owner looked for somebody who would take her and let her be a house chicken. I picked her up about sixty miles away from my house, halfway between it and her last owner's property. She has hatched and raised four small broods of flock chicks in the house, since she came home with me. She takes her charges outside into the garden for their chicken lessons.

Beth and Punkin figured out Sparkle was coming in and out through the door onto the deck and they decided they would come inside too, to lay their eggs in the laundry hamper. Beth joined the coop crew like a normal chicken, but Punkin spent nights inside the house. As she still does.

She goes outside every morning - voluntarily - to spend the day with the flock, then comes back inside to roost at night on the audio bar on the TV set table.

Hence "Part-time" House Chicken.

That is so sweet! Loved it.

 

[Penny Hen]

Where are you located? I have eggs - lots of eggs.

Several varieties - all bantam.

What kind of bantams?

 

[Happy Chooks]

Hey Chooks, how did you get asparagus before me? Mine hasn't even given us a peak yet!

Sunny CA ya know! Seriously, we haven't had much of a winter, and have been in drought conditions. We are finally getting rain now, but I don't know if it will keep us from a drought. So a warm winter and everything blooms early.

Quote: Yep. My peaches are blooming too:

This egg pales in comparison to that gorgeous shade, but I was chicken sitting last summer for a friend, and one of her girls laid this. I about lost my mind... She has no clue who lays them

Awesome color! Does she have ducks? Kinda looks like a duck egg.

The most beautiful hiking trail in the United States is "The John Muir Trail" going from Yosemite valley to Mt. Whitney. Part of that trail is the Pacific Crest Trail. Right in your back yard.

I'll have to try that one some time. Years ago we hiked Nevada and Vernal Falls and holy heck, we couldn't move the next day.

Some of my recent chicks

Cuties!

It's our anniversary today..22 years for us.

So glad I found this man to grow old with. We had the .. His, mine, and ours for children. 12 of them. Now waiting for our 33rd grandchild to be born this spring, and our first great grandchild this fall! Where does the time go?
All I can say is, that I am blessed!

That's fantastic! Happy Anniversary! And wow, with 33 grandchildren, you must be seriously busy.

Cynthia12 - Congrats!!

I was looking at the calendar last night and chatting with my wife and realized that I'm going to be out of town the last week of the hatch...my wife wasn't pleased when she found out that she might have to do something with the eggs...so my daughter (27) will be taking care of them for lockdown and hatch!

Here's a picture of us that was taken of us approx six years ago: DW, DD#1, Me and DD#2

Beautiful family!

I was willing - but not able - to temporarily change my avatar; apparently I am not smart enough to figger out how to do it from a mobile device.

So, here's the "selfie" I took yesterday with Punkin the part-time House Chicken.



As y'all can see, vanity is not one of my stronger character faults.....at least not with regard to personal appearance.

Hey Linda! Nice to see you!

YAY! I need my silkie girl to go broody or I cant do this hatch!!!! UUUGHHHHH she was just broody 5 weeks ago. im so mad! do you think she could go back under her mother influence by the 29th?

Well, she is a silkie, so I'd say chances are pretty good.

I got this contest in the bag lol. Everyone knows that baby emu are the cutest chicks in the world. lol.

Counting emus before they hatch?

 

[jbenson]

What kind of bantams?

I have Belgian D'uccle Mille Fleur hens that I am breeding with a roo of the same breed. I have Ameraucana/Araucana cross hens (they lay a blue to bluish green egg) that I am breeding with a roo of the same type and a mostly white Cochin Frizzle roo. And I have Cochin/Polish backyard mix ladies being bred with the A/A roo and Cochin Frizzle roo. There is a great variety of coloring to my backyard mix in feather color and pattern. They range in size from super small micro bantam to about 3 lb gals (though I haven't weighed them lately) who clearly have more Polish than Cochin and sport awesome "hair-dos". I can send you some photos if you want to see my flock. I've started calling it my homegrown Rainbow Layers project. Perhaps yet this year I will add some more birds who lay darker brown eggs, that is if I can get some hatching eggs to hatch them myself. What I wouldn't give to find a lavendar bantam layer, but I haven't found any of those breeds in bantam yet.

 

[Penny Hen]

Hey! and here he is

Spectacular! What breed? I didn't know you could have laced and barring going at the same time! And is that a chocolate gene too!

 

[bantambury]

Spectacular! What breed? I didn't know you could have laced and barring going at the same time! And is that a chocolate gene too!

I WANT HIM TOO! what breed!?!?!?!?