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

[Gardeningmama]

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I Love The Look Of Her!!!

Have a headache... Hope to chat tomorrow.

Have a great night!

Aaahhh...too many drinks at Batemans? I've come home all 3 times with a headache, lol!

Et tu Brute? Good morning! Another windy March day.

I need to get my ground ready for some winter crops, looks like we'll have some 'true' snow peas this year, supposed to get more snow tomorrow night in Pennsylvania.

No dirty words please...this is a family thread...

Good Mornin' everybody!! I woke up to 5 hatched chicks this morning!

And I got my first Royal Palm egg yesterday!

Woke up to?? You mean you KNEW chicks were hatching, and you slept? Is that even possible? Congrats on fuzzy butts!

 

[chicken pickin]

Thank you for answering the question I was always too embarrassed to ask. When do they drop 6 ft.?? Now I know!


I Love The Look Of Her!!!

Aaahhh...too many drinks at Batemans? I've come home all 3 times with a headache, lol!

No dirty words please...this is a family thread...

Woke up to?? You mean you KNEW chicks were hatching, and you slept? Is that even possible? Congrats on fuzzy butts!

LOL

Im guilty of sleeping through night time hatches now as well. I listen for the peeping and know more have hatched But I like to wait till morning to count them all.

I used to hover over them ALL night long even left the bedroom light on so they could see and I could see them with out a flash light. DH didn't even fully mind.

 

[abmaddox1981]

[COLOR=800080]Thank you for answering the question I was always too embarrassed to ask. When do they drop 6 ft.?? Now I know![/COLOR]


[COLOR=800080]I Love The Look Of Her!!! [/COLOR]
[COLOR=800080]Aaahhh...too many drinks at Batemans? I've come home all 3 times with a headache, lol![/COLOR]

[COLOR=800080]No dirty words please...this is a family thread... [/COLOR]

[COLOR=800080] Woke up to?? You mean you KNEW chicks were hatching, and you slept? Is that even possible?   Congrats on fuzzy butts![/COLOR]

2 were hatched 1 was zipping and 2 were pipped when I went to bed. I was beat from building coops.

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 I will definitely be incubating that turkey egg plus whatever she lays between now and set day

I can't wait to see them hatch!

Thank you for answering the question I was always too embarrassed to ask. When do they drop 6 ft.?? Now I know!

If the bin is empty, they drop 6 ft. and then the rest of the packages drop on top of it! Hopefully, the one that hits the egg package will not be too heavy.

I can't figure out why shippers think that tissue paper and foam egg cartons will protect an egg when packages have to go through that.

 

[mlm Mike]

On the heels of yesterdays humor....Good Morning!

Yes, that's about right.

It's nice to see peoples pre-Easter hatches going into lockdown and hatching. Looking forward to pictures of all the chicks!

 

[JoyfulPromise]

Good Morning everyone! Spring made another attempt here in Michigan yesterday - 50 degree temps and sun and lots of melting! I think we have already lost most, if not all of the 6+ inches of snow that fell earlier this week! HURRAY!!!

And to top it off, the sap is running nicely in the Maple trees - not only did our standby back Maple start running, but our front Maple tree ran for the first time (that we have caught it) in the last 3 years of tapping!!! Maple Syrup here we come!! After a brief cool down today and tomorrow, it looks like 40's all next week and maybe beyond!

Now if only the flood in our backyard would drain so I can get back to the Rock coop without a canoe...

I tried to encourage our veteran broody BO to think about sitting again yesterday, by giving her extra eggs while she was sitting in a nest to lay her egg. She took them readily enough, but later I found her out running around with the others. Oh well, she has TWO WEEKS to think about it. Meanwhile I will air out the Styro Incubators and prepare to start eggs in them if necessary.

I am getting excited with all the cute chick and duckling pics on here!

No fair that all you continuous hatchers have babies already! Can't wait till set day!!!!

 

[SilkieSensation]

[@=/u/84712/ronott1]@ronott1[/@] I will definitely be incubating that turkey egg plus whatever she lays between now and set day

I can't wait to see them hatch!

 
[COLOR=800080]Thank you for answering the question I was always too embarrassed to ask. When do they drop 6 ft.?? Now I know![/COLOR]

If the bin is empty, the drop 6 ft. and then the rest of the packages drop on top of it! Hopefully, the one that hits the egg package will not be too heavy.

I can't figure out why shippers think that tissue paper and foam egg cartons will protect an egg when packages have to go through that.

I had some moron try to ship me eggs in an egg carton stuffed into a bubble envelope. And the idiot at the post office TOLD him to do it that way that they would be fine. I'm not sure which of them was stupider!!!

 

[ronott1]

I had some moron try to ship me eggs in an egg carton stuffed into a bubble envelope. And the idiot at the post office TOLD him to do it that way that they would be fine. I'm not sure which of them was stupider!!!

Oh My!

If that happens again, send @ozexpat s letter to egg shippers. It is in Sally's hatching 101 article.

 

[mlm Mike]

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If the bin is empty, the drop 6 ft. and then the rest of the packages drop on top of it! Hopefully, the one that hits the egg package will not be too heavy.

I can't figure out why shippers think that tissue paper and foam egg cartons will protect an egg when packages have to go through that.

ronott1, have you ever seen the video how (I think Murray McMurray) packs their hatching eggs they sell?

yes, Murray McMurray

Other than you'll want to open that package outside, anyone have thoughts on that method.

 

[Penny Hen]

Cynthia12, check Grannychick55 and ask if she has any Collana eggs. They are clean faced and rumpless. They are a landrace from South Am. They are one of the ancestors of the Auracanas.
They lay blue and other colors. Right now she has one hen that lays lilac with yellow spots.